Unfortunately, this Model T is only used as a display at a local farm store. It does run. Hard to tell if it was built by a professional body company or a cabinet shop. I could not find any tags on it. The front seat is very interesting, it has original leather upholstery. This could have been from a car and the body built around it. If so, it had a professional look.
Look Ma it's got bucket seats! Because of the seats I would guess home or a cabinet shop. Nice job ether way.
I would say cabinet shop with the help of the blacksmith. My mother always said that she wouldn't by a car with bucket seats unless they fit her bucket.(Old family joke) That is very nicely done. Has a peerless shell, did peerless ever make any bodies??
Bob
Bob,
I know that Peerless made metal running board tool boxes.I don't know if they made any bodies.
Scott
Looks quite a bit like the seat from an NRS Ford. Though many seats of that era looked similar. I say the body is a very nice "home brew"
I'm guessing a 10 -12 commercial roadster seat with a huckster body built around it, it also looks to have early door latches installed, maybe 1912 touring ...?
Pretty neat looking rig.
Don't know if driving Ms. Daisy would be a good Idea with that broken steering wheel.
I think that body is a cousin of one I have on a TT truck I have.
From looking at it I would say it used to have side curtains on it that rolled up. They were fastened along the edge of the top. There is an offset you can see there at the bottom edge. after they were fastened with little carpet tacks there was a triangular (in cross-section)
piece of wood trim put over the edge of the fabric.
See the black knobs around the top wooden frame?
There was a piece of leather fastened on the inside of the top frame that was long enough to come up around under the rolled up curtain and have a little slit in the end of it to go over the knob and keep the curtain up after it was rolled into position.
The little Murphy fasteners on the pillars had corresponding grommets in the canvas side curtains to keep the curtains in place when they were down.
My truck has little eyelets on the pillars that had some kind of pin go through them.
herb
Herb is there any chance you could post a picture of your truck that's similar? I am framing up a huckster/produce wagon body right now and pictures like these have been hard to find. I have been scaling some drawings to figure overall length of the chassis with huckster type body, Thanks for any help Herb, Jim Derocher AuGres, Michigan