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What do you guys think?

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I found these pics over at FTE. This is not a real truck. It is a Photoshop truck. I know it's not a bump but I really like it. Am considering getting a '57 and building it.

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I like it!
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Looks real to me.
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He did it as an April Fools day joke. Had a complete writeup all about being a Ford prototype to compete with the Cameo. How Ford only made 39 & a friend of Henry Ford II bought 6 as giveaways to his top salesmen. Even went as far as giving a history of this truck along with only 2 known to still to be in existance. One being used as a farm truck and the other sold at Barrett Jackson for $885,xxx. Then he April Fooled you and told how he did it in Photoshop. It looks pretty easy to build. Cut the quarters off the side of a widebox and weld on quarters from a station wagon.

If you look at the pic showing the rear you will see the green paint doesn't go up to the chrome and is all wavy.
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Acutally I love it. Pretty cool design
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cowbay wrote:Acutally I love it. Pretty cool design
Me too. The more I look at it the more I like it. I am thinking same suspension as my '70 (CV IFS/MN12 IRS), 460/C6, dash out of a '57 Fairlane (year correct for this truck) & am caught about the nose. Keeping the truck as in teh pics or cutting off the bottom of the grille and putting a car grill under it with the car bumper from '57. I would paint it just like this (maybe different colors but the 2 tone pattern) complete with the modified trim down both sides. I would look into period correct Thunderbird AC and if the TBirds in '57 had pwr windows looking into using them. Making it look like a resto rod. Possibly laying the top of the tailgate inward so it slopes downward as on the Ranchero.
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not too hip on the bed treatment, but i really like the 57's. 58-60 not so much.
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I'd drive the wheels off of it! The body lines look great. :thup:
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I like it!
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OK, that is way cool!!!
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I like it and it looks very real to me. If this is a photoshop, that´s a hell of a job well done!
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It is definitely a photoshop job. I have seen the actual pics.
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I think it looks way cool. Love the paint shceme on it
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Cool! :) Yeah, I like it. I've always liked the '57's and '59's. IMO they were the best looking of those four years. I think the car quarters would probably have to have some extra sheetmetal added to make them high enough, but it definitely looks nice.

I wonder if Ford ever actually considered building something similar?
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