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Great pics. Some of those cars belong to tall pines region members. We drove to the meet with some of them. The 49 in the background of the white 64 is Lanny's I believe.

Couple more.

From the 2008 meet.

Here's some of my '48 B1B (these are from about 8 months ago) Has a '53-ish nose on it (wish it still had the correct nose, the 53 nose was on it when I bought it), and I didn't have the parking lights for the 53 Nose or a Grille, so I improvised on both of those items. Someday I want to put the correct nose on the truck, but it doesn't matter right now. I'll be happy to drive it in the spring. Frame was also damaged at the front (Bumper mount area), the Mounts were missing for a long time apparently and the previous owner WELDED the bumper to the frame and then must have hit something with it. Because when I bought the truck, the front bumper was laying in the bed, with about a 2" chunk of frame still stuck to it on each side. You can also see in the Rear pictures, where the previous owner had the Rear Bumper tilted (slotted the holes in the bumper brackets) so it didn't block the license plate. When I installed the new lights, I relocated the license plate so I can return the Rear Bumper to the correct position Before : After : Not shown in the pictures, but I pulled the both frame rails to the right (they had been tweaked to the left when the bumper had been ripped off), and made new bumper brackets (in the After picture the bumper was just hanging on the end of the frame) And this one spends about 50% of its time running around on 16" Pilothouse Wheels. The other 50% of the time, it looks like this...

Hey addes426, Since you're still on the hunt for a truck....here's a few threads that you might find interesting. 48D rubbin fenders volare front-end experiment frame question whats the best frame

VINTAGEPIC: found this B-1or2 and B-3 wreckers while cruising The HAMB

It's funny in a way that my choice of wheel color was made easy for me many years ago as we seemed to have the same colored wheels as the truck was painted here in Oz. I was pleased with this as it then narrowed down the decisions that I had to make - triple wheel stripes (like they did at the factory) or trim rings? I had pondered the idea for quite some time but finally made my mind up a few weeks back. I know that there are many critics of wide whitewalls out there, but I am very happy with them on my blue truck. The recent addition of 16" ribbed trim rings (IMO) appears to take some of the attention away from the bright whitewalls with the new 'bling' created by the stainless steel trim rings. After seeing them on the truck, I am now all the more confident that I made the right decision...

My 2 cents would be to try to support the engine at the rear some where near the bell housing similar to the stock situation. I realize the trans mount is factory as far as the trans is concerned, however that design was made to work with an engine supported left and right at the front. This design limits torque twist at the front, the old mopar design limited torque twist at the rear. With only the floating power front mount and the narrow and far back trans mount, the power train is essentially mounted on two narrow points along its centerline. Granted the front floating power mount spreads the load to the frame right and left, but it doesn't do much to or provide much resistance to twist. Neither does the single center rear mount.

The best defense (Seahawks) vs the best offense (Broncos). Playing in the dreaded Polar Vortex. If anyone can pull it off, it's Peyton. Omaha! Omaha! Go Broncos!!!

It has been said that it takes a lot of money to restore a vehicle. There is a lot of truth in that statement, but it is not the final truth. I have found that patience is money! The most obvious item I needed was the '52 grille. That grill has eleven (11) pieces to it. The park light mounts are water traps so they rust out fast and thus are hard to find. A good rear bumper is another allusive item. Few trucks were sold with bumpers so there are not many available and most of those that are are not usable. So I decided I would look for the hard to find parts early, before I needed them. If one impatiently buys these parts the price of rebuilding a vehicle skyrockets. So when I discovered these were very expensive (on ebay, for example) I just kept my eyes open. One day someone posted he was looking for a rear bumper, a forum member in the San Jose, CA. had one he was willing to give away because it was 'damaged', that is, it was not pristine. The seeker turned down the offer so i put my name it. Since I have an original patina finish, this bumper was ideal for me. In short I got the bumper free. I have a friend who does a lot of business in the San Jose area and he put the bumper in his pickup and I even got it home freight free. One evening someone posted a '52 Dodge Logging truck for sale. If no one was interested he was going to torch it and sell it for scrap. I offered him $200 clams for the grille and anything else I needed from the cab. He agreed and I got my grille, the headlight buckets, dash knobs, and one windshield glass. Now I must regress a bit, In an earlier post I showed a red hood. My garage opens to an alley and I made the mistake of leaving my upper hood out and it grew legs. I found the red one in the Lodi, CA area for $100 clams. When I got it home and removed the paint, underneath was the same color blue as my truck. So I changed grit numbers and took it off slowly. Some of the red was stubborn so I left it, "patina flame!". Now back to the grille. It was white when I found it. I took it home and put a high pressure steam cleaner to it and underneath was RED. Now that matched the red 'flames' on the hood so I left that paint on and the red grille fit into the paint scheme. My point is, look down the road shop ahead of your need and you may well find those hard to find parts at a reasonable price and thereby significantly lower your resto investment.

I went with red rims on my car, added WWW's,repainted the red on the hub caps as well. I had spare rims so I kept the original with the 3 grey stripes so I can go back if desired. It gives the car some shine, draws your eyes away from the original paint.

Hi Jim, yes we always seem to be limping home with some problem or another.. Fact is, we thought maybe the Speedster wanted to end the trip yesterday morning — and maybe take up residence in Idaho instead. "40 Ply, nice that you got a chance to ride in a T. They are really a car like no other. The pickup you were in is a nice body style... kind of sporty with a touch of utility thrown in the mix.

The chrome bumper was optional. The front window division bar was chrome on the deluxe models only. You could also get chrome plated wheel dics`s (rims) as well.

This is an original photo I picked up a couple of years ago. It shows a Australian 53 Deluxe Utility. The same format is used in a lot of the early advertising in Australia at the time. These couple are some pics of Pilothouse ambulances made in Australia (1958 models) then exported to some asian countries

Couple I saved from an older thread..... 48D

These are my grandfather's trucks back in Indiana in the early 50's. The Pilothouse is a 1949 3/4 ton.

Here is a photo of my truck when it was restored the first time. Probably about 1969 or so. The photo was taken in Bloomington MN.

A smokin tough day in the Dodge for this poor guy...