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Tuesday, December 15. 2009

Woodstock, CT, last week:

Posted by Capt. Tom Francis in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:07 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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Its a 1935 or 36 Ford

#1 bgarrett on 2009-12-15 15:42 (Reply)

Good eye - it is a '36 Ford pickup. This one is restorable as the sheet metal is still relatively intact, but the infamous Ford X frame chassis is completely gone and detached from the cab. If somebody had ten or twelve thousand, it could be put back to it's original condition - a custom built chassis built to original specification would cost about $5K.

#1.1 Tom Francis on 2009-12-15 16:29 (Reply)

I am told by Capt. Tom that it's a '36.

#2 Bird Dog on 2009-12-15 16:02 (Reply)

Indeed and belongs to Calvin Neely of Yankee Sales and Equipment, old Woodstock family who purchased it 30 years ago from one of the old farmers who used it as a field truck.

One of the more interesting factoids about the '35/'36 Ford pickups is that a lot of them were retrofitted to '40 engines and transmissions. The original engines in the farm pickups were the Ford 221 CID 85 hp flathead 8 cylinder. While the engines were acceptable, the improved transmissions in the '40s models necessitated a change to the Ford V8.

#2.1 Tom Francis on 2009-12-15 16:42 (Reply)

Nice shot.

#3 Retriever (Link) on 2009-12-15 16:15 (Reply)

Thank you. I have to confess a little - that's a heavily processed image. The base image is ok, but it needed a little "something" to give it some character so I adjusted it in a single frame HDR emulator and tweaked the heck out of it to get the effect I wanted. Then back out to Photoshop for additional shadow/highlight and curve treatment until I was satisfied with the result.

Oddly, it came out in a black and white conversion just fine - it was the color image that I didn't like.

#3.1 Tom Francis on 2009-12-15 18:56 (Reply)

PS: That's a heck of a picture at the top of your blog. Nice capture.

#3.2 Tom Francis on 2009-12-15 18:58 (Reply)

Thanks. Beginner's luck (I have been stalking a family of five of them for weeks, and they would have get closer now they're used to me, but the dog goes for them). I don't do much processing: crop, and maybe adjust saturation and exposure to compensate for glare, but that's usually all. Off to look up HDR (don't know what that is, but it looks good in the truck)

#3.2.1 retriever on 2009-12-15 20:29 (Reply)

HDR photo? Freaks me out.

#4 Jephnol (Link) on 2009-12-15 18:25 (Reply)

Sort of - used an HDR single frame emulator. I liked the effect - then again, HDR isn't for everybody.

#4.1 Tom Francis on 2009-12-15 19:00 (Reply)

1935 Fords have the wire spoke wheels shown.
In 36 they went to the wide five wheels that the early Volkswagons copied.
It is possible that the wheels have been swapped.

#5 bgarrett on 2009-12-15 19:09 (Reply)

Probably - it's not a '35 I do know that. I'm not an expert on antique vehicles other than International Harvester trucks up to about 1970 and International Harvester tractors. And my '70 Corvette - I know every single nut, bolt, screw and inch of that car. :>)

#5.1 Tom Francis on 2009-12-16 09:35 (Reply)

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