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When Jim McLernon took over Volkswagen of America and oversaw the Westmoreland plant, he not only turned the Rabbit into a Malibu, he also turned it into an El Camino. The former Chevrolet engineer saw the potential for Volkswagen to expand into the truck market and created a pickup on the Golf/Rabbit platform. The Volkswagen Pickup was the first VW created in the United States.
This 1981 Pickup features unit body construction to lessen the weight, not body-on-frame construction like conventional pickup trucks. The rear suspension uses a simple tubular axle held in place by leaf springs Maximum payload is between 1131 and 1250 pounds.
The pickup idea was a good one – and as the Caddy, the little truck would be popular in other markets - but American pickup fans wanted something bigger and not so cute. As a result, the VW Pickup was not successful and lasted only three seasons. So this one is a rare find. The car-based pickups that inspired the VW were themselves disappearing from the American highway by then – Ford stopped making its Ranchero in 1979 and Jim McLernon’s old employer Chevrolet discontinued the El Camino in 1983. Such trucks were considered suitable only as flower cars for funerals, and a black VW pickup would certainly have been appropriate at Maxwell Snaberly's funeral. ;-)
Ironically, Chrysler – which had copied the Golf/Rabbit with its L platform cars, the Dodge Omni and the Plymouth Horizon – sought to capitalize on the potential of VW’s minitruck by producing a compact pickup of its own, the Dodge Rampage, off the L platform. It came to market just as VW was giving up on its own truck and didn’t last very long itself.
Such trucks are still popular in Australia, where they’re called “utes.”
My early Paykan pickup restoration project in Iran,near to the end :)
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One from the archives. Cowboy Eli and an old Chev.
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A Ford F-250 pickup from the Lexington, KY police department. Usually these trucks are assigned to mounted patrol officers, so they can pull a horse trailer.
Photo by: Wedding Photographer Melbourne Teddy Tan
One of the photos from a pre-wedding photoshoot. Taken at a tram stop near Flinders Street. It was dark and raining, yet it is one of the best condition for stunning photography.
Pickup point - tram picking up passengers, or guy picking up girl?
Strobist info: One speedlight behind the couple, 1/16 power, triggered by phottix atlas. The other flash on the right actually comes from another photographer, perfect timing.
On display at the Charlotte (Food Lion) Auto Fair in April 2011.
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1951 Ford Pickup at the Wildwood Kustom Hot Rod and Muscle Car Show on the Wildwood, NJ Boardwalk on May 11th 2024
The '41 when introduced had a front appearance that was described as "massiveness". This is a great custom to a classic "Art Deco" pickup.
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I saw this at the New Covenant Church in Waverly, Ohio. I have no idea of what a Tazinator is but I think the truck is a Nissan.
This truck appears to be a 1935 Ford Pickup. It has been heavily reworked in the Smoothster fashion after Boyd, with louvers removed, and anything else that might disrupt the surface of the machine. It rides in the weeds. It is just a very beautiful truck to look at.
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The September 19, 2010 Glenmoor Gathering at Glenmoor Country Club in Canton, Ohio.
Two beautiful pickup trucks, a 1956 Studebaker reflected in the shiny finish of a 1949 GMC.
Nothing fancy, just a pickup truck. But SPACE!
Mostly 6-wide, but tapers to 7 over the front wheels and the flatbed. The early version of this was 8, shifting to 10 at the back. It was massive, but so not minifig scale. This version loses the full independant suspension, but doesn't look like a monster truck next to my Octan Cargohauler.