Is the 56 Canadian? Simple times, quiet, wife, kids and off the ground beds.

 

My dad wasn't that cool. He loved wagons. And pickups. May have been one of your uncles, but no one in my family was hip enough to have a GTO. I recall when I was about 9 or 10 in the early 70's my dad was shopping for a car to replace his 62 Rambler wagon. We went to a few car lots and test drove a 67 Country Squire, brown with wood grain trim. I remember it being kind of used up and beat for a 5 year old car, and dad was less than impressed. He passed on that one, but ended up with a 67 Country Sedan, same car, basically, without the wood grain. He had that car forever. Learned to drive on that, helped rebuild the engine when I was 13. He still daily drove it after I left home.

 

I loved my 83 Nissan/Datsun Sentra Wagon. It had both names on the back. I was very sad when it died.

 

I remember seeing both names for awhile. Took me a long time to stop thinking of them as Datsuns. After all, with the 510 being a "Datsun" that was all I needed to know!

Paul

 

When I bought my '71 Bronco, it was five years old and had only 58,000 miles on the clock.
Being in CA, I did not expect to find rust. But when I got it home, I found plenty! In it's short five year life, it had rusted through both kick panels, both floor pans, and both rear corners of the engine compartment!
Those are the most common usual spots, but I did get "lucky" in one respect. The rust had not attacked the lower tailgate, lower doors, roof drip rail, or leading edge of the hood yet.
Still thankful for small favors...

Paul

 

Here's a real woodgrain Ford pickup. Click link for a lot more pictures of it.

Custom Built All-Wood Ford Pickup Truck (motortrend.com)

 

 

Glad the guy don't work in the Ford designing department...lol

 

I remember back in high school days(early 80's), one of the teachers had a square body chevy truck. He built a totally wood bed that looked exactly correct. All the right shape and contours. He wasn't even the wood shop teacher. LOL

 

Seen this one at a car show in Fort Frances Ont, don't remember much about it now or what it was built on..

 

The first cyber truck body...........

 

At the Goodguy's show in Spokane back in '21 there was a handmade wood truck on display built by a Father/Son over the course of 7 years. These pics probably don't do it justice, it was an incredible piece of workmanship with lots of inlay work.