My NHRA announcing cohort Alan Reinhart gets the credit for this find and it is a good one! You are looking at a wonderful example of a 1958 Grumman bread truck. The truck has been stripped of all its paint to show off the wonderful aluminum body that was under it. As Grumman was an aircraft company, they knew how to work with aluminum really well and the result was this happy looking truck.
With a humming little Ford inline six, functional heater, refreshed tires, brakes, and suspension, this truck is ready to take on the world, slowly. Other than maybe sticking some more gears behind the little engine to give it help, we would not touch anything here.This thing is desert climate fresh and we just love it.
The few custom touches on the truck are both inside and out. For starters you can see the holes in the “a pillar” area. The truck needed new glass and this was apparently a a way to get glass from another application to fit. We think it looks cool. Inside the truck are two seats from an old airliner. They do not look too comfy but maybe we’re wrong.
Styling-wise we love this truck and there is one thing that cracks us up. They budgeted it all for the front end. Because the back of the thing is about as styled as a prison cell. Not that anyone is really going to ooohhhh and ahhhh over the back of a bread truck but it struck us as funny.
This is a great truck. You need it!
CL: This 1958 Grumman bread truck is as cool a cruiser as you are ever going to find –
With some creativity on the inside and an engine swap this would be the coolest RV that ever took on Power Tour. Since it’s Ford powered, maybe swap in that turbo 4 cyl they are running in the Mustang and Ranger.
I dig it!
Learned to drive a stick on one of these …should be polished like an Airstream, it would melt eyeballs.
I have a 1977 Grumman-Olsen Kurbmaster Junior. It’s an all-aluminum body on a beefed-up 1/2-ton Chevy chassis on a 108″ wheel-base. It was a candy and cigarette vending company truck. It had a 292 truck 6 and 350 turbo trans when I bought it in 2004. The trans went out and I changed it to a 700R-4, then the motor blew and I just 650 miles ago, put a crate 350 and had a built 700R-4 and use it to go to t6he drags and get on top of and take videos. It’s set up like a little RV.