1952 Pilot House On Mecums Auto Auction........

[Young Ed]

Hey Ed. Did you guys get that truck finished and on the road yet? I hope to be able to see it when I'm up there this summer.

 

Merle

 

It's getting there. It drove itself to storage and then didn't make it back home this spring. The pickup tube in the tank was clogged up. It has made a few trips around town but nothing too long distance yet.

[John-T-53]

Haha...ganster walls. Reminds me of this flick....

[catfishcuz]

LOL!!! I hear ya... I've never liked WWW on a truck. I think they look good on certain cars, but never on a truck.

Kinda like trying to make a silk purse out of a sals ear

[Don Coatney]

Kinda like trying to make a silk purse out of a sals ear

sals? Is that the same as a female pig?

[Merle Coggins]

Yea... I've always heard it as "Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear."

 

Ok, you guys. Maybe I'm starting to cave in, but I think this truck looks good in WWW's too. Maybe it's just the darker colors offering a good contrast.

[catfishcuz]

sals? Is that the same as a female pig?

Yea that's what I meant like a pig with lipstick.

[Jeff Balazs]

Yea... I've always heard it as "Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear."

 

Ok, you guys. Maybe I'm starting to cave in, but I think this truck looks good in WWW's too. Maybe it's just the darker colors offering a good contrast.

Merle;

It does look nice on that year truck.........but it is a very different body style. To my eyes a Pilothouse just looks like the classic old work truck....at home on a farm ...or ranch.... or hauling a load down the road. There was clearly much more emphasis placed on functionality than styling. You called it right the first time......... the last thing an old work truck needs is WWW.

 

Jeff

[pflaming]

Hay Jeff, or new paint! Original patina is the ultimate. 

 

[MBF]

I think blackwalls look at home on our trucks.  That's the way I remember them when I was a kid.  I didn't put 'em on my 36 Plymouth either.  I figured since it was the low cost MoPar offering (Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth) that the owner probably didn't have money for them.  My Dad has wide whites on his 35 Chrysler, but that was a richer man's car.  I kinda like the blackwalls.  Just a personal preference, not trying to influence anyone.   Paul, that truck looks fine the way you've finished it.  Goes nicely with the kid's uniforms.  Mike

[Jeff Balazs]

Paul;

You show off!

You know that I would have gone that direction if I had any paint to begin with. Glad to see you are out and getting some use with it.

 

Jeff

[BulldogTom]

Love the white walls - gangsta white walls (wasn't that in a song in the 70's?).  The parking lights are not correct.  The grill bars should extend all the way across to the lights.  They are missing.  Wrong truck.  Thought this was the Palm Springs PH you were talking about.

 

Tom

Hollister, CA

Edited May 20, 2013 by BulldogTom

[Don Coatney]

Diamond in the back, sun roof top

 

[BulldogTom]

Diamond in the back, sun roof top

 

 

Thats the one.  Dig them gangsta whitewalls.

 

Tom

Hollister, CA

[Desotodav]

I like the whitewalls, although probably not as much on a lighter colored truck. I reckon that I made the right decision in going with them on my blue 52 truck when you compare the before and after photos.

[48Dodger]

The chrome grille and WW tires really set it off Davin..... 

 

     ...Why? Cuz white walls are COOOL!!....

 

 

48D