#jailbar

Kiwi Rebel. '47 n '49 Ford Pickup Trucks.

Kiwi Rebel. Ford Jailbar '47 here in NZ.

Really nice example

Kiwi Rebel. '47 Jailbar

When they say “work truck,” they really mean it - this 70+ year old Ford is still in business service - and given how simple such a truck is to maintain, it can probably go on forever. That said, #worktrucks of the 1940s are not like the work #trucks of today in any meaningful way. They were ponderous, slow, and required real physical strength to drive. This was as before power steering or brakes (or disc brakes) were applied to trucks, and even before Ford’s universal truck label, the F-series. - The F-series debuted in late 1947 as a 1948 model - and ever after, even Ford’s commercial trucks were part of the F-series, from the light duty consumer F-1/F-2 to the huge 11-ton F-8; and they’d evolve that way ever after. But before that, the light duty trucks were still based on Ford’s cars, even if they didn’t look it. Their cabs were shared by the larger Ford vommercials that had grown out of the Model AA/BB. - The “Jailbar” trucks, named for the furnace-like grill that replaced the delicate, Lincoln Zephyr-like styling of the 1940-41 trucks, were introduced as 1942 models. The commercial trucks used larger chassis of much larger lengths. Light duty trucks had a 114” (2.9m) or 122” (3.1m) wheelbase. Commercials used 134” (3.4m), 158” (4m), and 194” (5m) wheelbases - though that last one was just for buses. - Before the convenient F-series lingo, they were divided into “light duty” half tons, “Tonners,” which were still consumer oriented but clearly work trucks, and Commercial trucks above that. Almost all commercial trucks at that time were straight six powered, but for the lightest trucks a Fordson tractor derived four was offered, and in the heavies two versions of the flathead V8 - Ford taking advantage of all the tools it had on the shelf. - 1942 was a short model year because of the war - but production of the trucks continued into the war; they were just used as war material. The Jailbars returned to showrooms in late 1945 for two more years as Ford worked on the original F. Caught between the very pretty ’40/’41 models and the Fs, the #jailbar truck has never found much acceptance as a collector’s truck, but it can still work for a living. #FordTrucks https://www.instagram.com/p/BttlAp3F3l4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hu08cz864uf5

Sure, it looks as if they may have used a filter on these pictures.  But it’s still easy to see that this 1945 Jailbar (As they’re called.) is a wonderful old truck!