SIA Flashback – The Ranchero’s Granddad: 1931 Model A Ford Deluxe Pickup

At first glance it looks like one of the many trucks converted from sedans and luxury cars that garages used during the Depression, but Ford actually built (make that Briggs built for Ford) a number of slab-sided cab-integral-with-bed pickups in 1931 that it called Deluxe Pickups. That number wasn’t all that high, however, and surely many of the pickups lived hard lives, which is likely why not too many people recognize them today as the rarities they are. Kit Foster had the story on the Model A Deluxe Pickup for SIA #154, July 1996.