What is this vehicle

[Ilian Filipov]

I agree with Mike, looks like this:

[Robin Craig]

Wow, that is such a smart looking vehicle. Great lines.

[Lang]

Ilian

I think you are close. It looks like they have just cut the rear guards/fenders out to fit the wheels.

Lang

[Mike K]

I looked at one of those utes during a Corowa event years ago. The little town between Corowa and Albury , NSW side of the river. The chap wasn't home but he had a junk yard with lots of stuff . He was selling a 1 ton army Ford 01Y but he had the coupe ute in the yard. The coupe ute was restorable but needed a lot of work.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

I looked at one of those utes during a Corowa event years ago. The little town between Corowa and Albury , NSW side of the river. The chap wasn't home but he had a junk yard with lots of stuff . He was selling a 1 ton army Ford 01Y but he had the coupe ute in the yard. The coupe ute was restorable but needed a lot of work.

I bet that was the yard at Howlong, remember going there a few years back, place was full of vehicles of all ages. There was no one home then, his mailbox was overflowing !

[David Dunlop]

Those rear fenders look like they have a proper rolled outer edge finish. Would that type of work have been bothered with in the field, or could those fenders have been taken from a different model Ford with the same wheel well radius?

Cute as a bug, either way!

David

[Lang]

David

Those workshops had lots of people with very high skill levels from their former civilian lives. Body builders would have been among them. As anyone with military service knows, no matter how hectic the work, there is always time for interesting "foreign" orders.

Probably some keen young officer suggested it or complained about getting bogged all the time and the workshop blokes took the baton and ran with it.

Quite possibly a few cartons of beer fell out of the back of a truck near the workshop.

Lang

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

I bet that was the yard at Howlong, remember going there a few years back, place was full of vehicles of all ages. There was no one home then, his mailbox was overflowing !

Yes that would be the place for sure. I remember the ute in question had a rusted out floor pan. I rang the hot rod business in Castlemaine , they made new Ford panels for the 1930's , 40's cars . The chap said yes, they have a new floor pan for that ute ... rather expensive project so I left it.

[Mike K]

56623 appears to be a 1938 model ?

70563 116552 is a scene at Corowa airport !