It is always cool to see something that you have never laid eyes on before. In my case that’s this 1947 Crosley pickup truck! I have seen the goofy little Crosley “fire trucks” I have seen Crosley Hot Shot sports car, and I have seen Crosley Farm-O-Road truck-tors but I have never actually seen a 1947 Crosley pickup truck. That should not be much of a surprise as they only made like 3,000 of them in 1947. Of that 3,000 how many do you think still look like this or even exist at all? Very few is my guess!
Powered by the little 48ci engine that made the companies bones for many years, the cargo capacity was small but if you needed more of a runabout than a truck, this thing was your jam. Hauling logs? Not so much. Hauling small items, light stuff, and needing good mileage? Done!
The styling of the truck is pretty neat. The shortness of it is matched for weirdness only by the high bed sides. The cab area seems to be exceedingly roomy but maybe that’s more of the camera angle than anything else. It is not wide so two good sized adults will look like trained bears at the circus in there, I guess. It would be tough not to smile as you drove down the road in this little creation. That may stop when you are nearly run down by a 3/4-ton pickup that would look like a cruise ship, but before that it would be lots of laughs per mile.
Interesting, weird, and frankly kind of neat, I’d rock this little truck and I’d do it with pride.
eBay Listing: Bone Stock 1947 Crosley Pickup Truck
Stick in a turbo Hayabusa motor and go out scaring everything on the road:.
“How did you end up in hospital?”
Good question – this little pick up went past me so fast I thought my car had stopped and I got out to see what was wrong.”
“Yeah – so how did you end up in this state?”
“I was doing 80mph!”
Ed Moriarty @ Suburban Shell in Framingham has restored 2 of these, a wagon and a rare convertible model they called the Crosley Hotshot. Pretty interesting piece of history from a company that started making kitchen appliances first 😉