Hey all!

I'm looking for pictures of a 1940 Ford (preferable a PickUp) in military service, but sofar I only found little to nothing.
Can someone give me a help with this?

So far, this 'model' is the only one I found pictures of, and I don't know if it's accurate, let alone if it realy existed.
It should be a 1940 PickUp in service with the Army Air Corps at Pearl Harbour.



Thanks in advance!!

Paul

Have you a pic of the front. It looks correct but with a frontal pic would be able to tell for sure.

they did use this type of Utility so no probs with that.

cheers
Cliff

here is two pics of one in British service





cheers
Cliff

Hi Cliff,

Thanks for your answer.
Unfortunatly I don't have a picture of the front of the "Wheeler Field" model, but I did made a scan of the boxart (see below) of the kit I want to use for it.
It looks like the same front as the Brittish version.
The things I have to do for sure is to raise the suspension and find convincing wheels for it.
You think I can use this kit for it?

Still hoping to find (more) reference pictures of the hard-top pick-up version, like the one from Wheeler Field. It's for the Truck Campaign, so as much proof I can get, the bether it is

I found this one in a toystore, its 1/32 scale:



I think it should be possible to convert it.

Hi Jan,

That one would only need a paintjob:


From what modelfirm is that 1:32 car? I like to check if I can get it here also.

Paul

Hi Paul I am doing the exact same thing and believe me pictures are hard to find. I am using an earlier version PU truck as they would have been in service for several years prior to WWII so I am going to fade and beat it up a little.

I would not take too much stock in the accuracy of the Wheeler Field pickup truck. I recognize it as a Matchbox-sized (1:64) diecast collectable by Johnny Lighting. Those militarized vehicles tend to be just OD painted vehicles from their civilian diecast car line. I'd imagine the markings are suspect as well and this series was possibly issued around the time of the Pearl Harbor movie to capitalize with an unofficial movie tie-in.

The other thing to be aware of here guys is that 'coupe' type cars were not used as staff cars! They tended to be all 4 door sedans and convertables.


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Very suitable for conversion. Sometimes to do some of these obsure type vehicles I too resort to buying the same type of kit to convert. I posted the two pics of the British one as that was all I could find in a hurry yesterday.

cheers
Cliff

I was afraid of that...
Well, I did find pic's of an 140 Ford ambulance version, but I just dig arround on the net to find me some pictures I hope to find.

The search continues. The pictures Cliff sended help to find an other of a Ford WOC1 in German use at Crete. Found it on http://www.autogallery.org.ru
However, it'a a hard search for ref pics this time...

Hi Paul!

I think that this is also a picture which may interest you, its comes from www.lrdg.de and it depicts ford in use of lrdg patrols arond 1941.

Hope this helps

Cheers,
Pedro

Pedro
Thank you very much!!! That's exactly the infor I'm looking for!

Paul

And an other beauty I wish to share. Foud it on blindkat.hegewisch.net/lrdg and yes, it's edited...

Thanks for the support guys! I think I have enough info now (although, I would be happy with some scale drawings :-) )

I got a 1940's Ford delivery van that was molded in yellow plastic, and I was looking for it to see if they still made it, but only found it on the collectors site.

Darn shame, I have a bunch of missing parts now, and I was starting to draft it into the military by paining it olive drab on the interior, to see how it would look, but I'll see what I can find, and scratch to finish it.

Kerry

Hi Kerry, what make was that model?
If you like I can PM you some sites with pictures of the 1940 Ford in WWII service. I only found pictures of the WOC-1 (1- 1,5 ton vehicles like above) and sedans.
Probuilder, what kit are you using?

Paul

Here is a truck labeld 1/38 scale that moight be suitable

http://www.diecastdirect.com/asp_modules/add_item.asp?ProductCode=KL94574

http://www.diecastdirect.com/asp_modules/add_item.asp?ProductCode=KL94574

live link.

Nice but the grill is wrong for one and would have to be changed. Other then that you would need to have one to measure it to see if it really was to scale. Nice price though so you would not lose out on much buying it.

Cheers
Cliff

Thanks for the link.
On the following site: www.motormint.com/ if found this 1:32 Ford WW2 Recruitment set for 25,- dollar.
The description says: "Here are the officially licensed, original 1940 fleet from Ford that rolled all across the nation."
However, I did not found any reference pictures of such recuitment trucks on the internet this far (and I put almost all the nights last week in searching for 1940 Ford pictures and models).
Does somebody know if these realy existed/ if the models are acurate (besides the wrong grille)? Or is it just an nice variant of civilian models?

Once again the grills are not 1940 Ford light commercial grills. Also with out having one in hand to check it is impossible to tell if they are the 'real' deal and accurately represent what they are supposed to be.

Cheers
Cliff