The Waltons went on a summer holiday (splitty, but non-VW)

Post by **Pine** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:04 am

Saw this cool Ford pickup in Swartvlei near Sedgefield yesterday

(Hubcap, can you help me out with the year again, please?)

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:21 am

'40 - '41.

MINCE · Post by **MINCE** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:24 am

pre 48.

Did some searching, found 1941, 1942 and a 1946

Post by **Pine** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:28 am

My guess is '43

Post by **Pine** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:33 am

The '40 Ford pickup has more 'teardrop'-shaped headlights, and a totally different grill and nose

Hubcap · Post by **Hubcap** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:30 am

Anything between 42 and 47. Did not have any major changes in this period.

Post by **Retrobug** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:04 pm

Pine wrote:The '40 Ford pickup has more 'teardrop'-shaped headlights, and a totally different grill and nose

The grill on the gold one is super

sexy!

lowlight · Post by **lowlight** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:08 pm

AFAIK in the second world war new cars were very scarce, from 42 to 45.(Chevys had split windows up to at least 48)

Golfmad · Post by **Golfmad** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:45 pm

That 40's nose looks much nicer and more defined /sculpted than the other later model one.

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:40 pm

Nice truck, the gold 40's ford looks like the nose has be modified to me.

Hubcap · Post by **Hubcap** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:42 am

From 48 the Ford pickups did away with the split screen.

WW2 was the main reason why these trucks did not change much in the 40's

In all probability this was an ex-army truck.

Post by **Pine** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:34 am

Saw this Chevy in George yesterday

Aircooled VW South Africa