Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Car Buffs..ANy one know what year this might be?

Have found some great vehicles that had been hidden under the snow. This one could be a beaut if somebody was to restore it.

Early 50's,..all the Chevies look very much alike during that period.

I'll guess that it's a 53.

Thanks Bristoe,I was guessing early 50's on my end but wasn't 100 percent sure if I was right. The running boards and side steps are not rotted through which amazes me.

Hood ornament tells me it's either a '54 or early'55. Cool thing about it is that it is the coveted "five window" model. Yeah, somebody should be drooling over that old relic.

The pickup box floor probably is oak strips. Are they still in good shape?

My brother had a five window, one heck of a fun truck.

My brother had a five window, one heck of a fun truck.

There sits probably a cool $400 for the crusher man.

'old iron' paying top dollar

That body style was in use from 48 to 52... changed the front grill a little and used until 1954.

My granddad had one, and when he died in 1968, it had about 450,000 miles on it...He owned a garage and use to use that old truck needing work as an excuse to get out of doing Grandma's Honey Do list. It was a 5 window, with an old Chevy straight 6 in it and 3 speed on the column transmission, a floor starter, and a suicide knob on the steering wheel.

I'd love to have a restored old Chevy like that and a Chevy sedan of the same vintage. Played in the back of PaPa's truck a lot as a kid, we always used it as the Army Fort when we played cowboys and indians.

It's a 1954 or 55. It has the wrong hood ornament to be 53 or earlier.

Here's a '54. Not quite the same?

1949, or 1955 3100 series step side. The only 3100 series trucks that had the rounded part of the hood emblem rounded side down. 1950 through 54 the rounded side is up with the red bow tie in the middle.

A couple more shots of the truck









Not sure how the floor boards are in the box of the truck, many leaves and junk but I'll have to stop and look next trip by it.

A couple more of different vehicles I've discovered in the last couple of weeks.


The Pinto


The Ford


Chevy


Falcon

My sister in law had a '55 that was her daily driver. I did quite a bit of work on it for her and told her that if she ever sold it, I wanted a crack at it. A few years later she called us & excitedly said she got $500!! for the thing. I could have killed her. I'd have given her double that in a heartbeat. The body was completely clean & it ran great.

I saw your reflection in the final photo and my first thought was, "It's got a body in it!!"

If I was going to restore one, it'd be one of these...a Dodge Powerwagon. UBER cool.

I had a chance to buy one of those when I was a kid. Still bruised from kicking my self in the butt for not doing it.

Funny you should say that..It's something I think about when I'm photographing the cars and trucks.

Poor old vehicles. Once proud but now just cast aside to disappear into the earth.

Somebody needs to rescue the old pickup.

Neat photos, as usual.

It's newer then '52. Wrong door handle. '53 was the first year of the push button.