Dan Woods Milk Truck on Ebay

Itoldyouso · #1 07-18-2009, 11:31 PM

Surfing Ebay tonight I spotted Dan Woods Milk Truck being sold. It was at $106K at that point, and the reserve still wasn't met. Looks like it has undergone a very nice restoration.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Other...fCarsQ5fTrucks

Don

Bob Parmenter · #2 07-19-2009, 06:55 AM

Crack open one of your hidden piggy banks Pops and step up!!!!! That's you!!!

The other day I was at the dentist for the 6 mo. cleaning. He knows I'm into "old cars" and he's a closet car nut but without the desire/need/whatever to directly participate. So each time I'm in the chair he starts a conversation about old cars (which is odd since questions presume answers, and they've got their hands shoved in your mouth.....but I digress). Somehow he steered the conversation to old show rods. We talked about bubble tops, angel hair, yada yada, and then he says "you remember that car that had the back half of the body shaped like a German helmet?" I can remember the names of many of these old show rods, but at that precise time it wasn't coming to me. He surmised he could find stuff on the internet if he only knew how to identify it. I told him it shouldn't be too hard and that I'd do a search and forward some links. Got home and found "The Red Baron" (yeah! why couldn't you remember that!!) in a few minutes and sent him some info. That car did a reverse of many, it was first designed by Tom Daniel as a model for Monogram and THEN built as a "real" car at the commission of show promoter Bob Larivee.

Doing the hunt for web info of course led to "stuff" about many of the show rods of the latter '60s, early '70s, and it occured to me that that was a unique slice of automotive history. Why did the offbeat show rods burst onto the scene, and then, just fade away? If you remember there were cars made from bath tubs, actual phone booths, outhouses, coffins, and so on. Many of them were flat out silly, but that's showbiz. Now of course, to appeal to our sense of nostalgia, they're being resurrected regularly. I wonder if any of you younger guys are mulling; "What were they thinking?"

Dave Severson · #3 07-19-2009, 07:35 AM

Hmmmmm..... So, when did thinking become a requirement????? Next I suppose you'll tell us practicality should also be a concern???????

Bob Parmenter · #4 07-19-2009, 08:01 AM

Well Davey, I've long suspected you were averse to thinking.............now, it's confirmed!!!!!!!!

Dave Severson · #5 07-19-2009, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Well Davey, I've long suspected you were averse to thinking.............now, it's confirmed!!!!!!!!

Well, ya shouldn't wait till I'm in the middle of a project and then introduce a lot of new criteria!!!!!!!! Besides, I do give a lot of consideration to "what's next" when I'm contemplating which way to go on a project..... My dog and I have a lot of in depth discussion on how things should be!!!! Ya know I'd never want to do anything that would be offensive to the purists!!!!

Hope to have some time available this winter to come help out on that Mopar in Vegas, btw......

IC2 · #6 07-19-2009, 11:45 AM

I guess it's a piece of history - but unless you have in excess of $122K you wont own a freakin modified T bucket - just like the rest of the odd ball 'things' that were popular in the '60s. I'm not going to go on a rant (well not too much), but the very fact that it was owned/built/driven/looked at/thought about/painted by/advised about, etc, etc, etc. by some of the 'big names' wont change the fact that it's a Pontiac in a C cab T-Bucket that could be for the most part duplicated for a lot less.

Dave, don't worry about in depth discussions with the dog - that is until he answers you and you actually understood what he said

ted dehaan · #7 07-19-2009, 01:43 PM

a couple years ago I was getting off the fwy. up in the f.s valley and a p/u. with a car trailer went past with what I am pretty sure was the old pool table show car on it looked like it was in a barn someplace for 40 yrs.thought it would surface in one of the car mags. but haven't seen it yet ......ted

STREETWERKZ · #8 07-19-2009, 03:30 PM

$122 k, reserve not met!!

MikeB · #9 07-19-2009, 03:33 PM

Did anybody notice the lack of front brakes?

That's the way it was done "back in the day"

Evolvo · #10 07-19-2009, 05:26 PM

Or the center mounted front coil spring, not quite ready for lapping days at Sears Point. Could this actually be one of those cars that was rumored to have a motor with NO internals, never intended to be operable. BTW, I've withdrawn my bid!!