{"id":2708,"date":"2019-09-07T00:54:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T00:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredspics1.wordpress.com\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2019-09-26T16:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T16:46:48","slug":"1940-ford-pickup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/?p=2708","title":{"rendered":"1940 Ford Pickup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Click on the picture to<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> Z O O M<\/span> in.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/cars.cars-ydse.com\/zoomR-v1.html?jpg=1940-Ford-Pickup-IMG_20160124_083700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cars.cars-ydse.com\/small\/1940-Ford-Pickup-IMG_20160124_083700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"228\"><\/a>This truck was parked right outside of a Peets Coffee shop just a few blocks from my home in San Francisco. To me, it had recently been restored and it looked like a job really done well. I did not get a chance to look at the interior ( I forgot ) but every other detail of the restored truck looked great.<\/p>\n<p>I could not find much information on this particular make and modeyear but I did find a quote on a site called&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/auto.howstuffworks.com\/1940-1941-ford-half-ton-pickup.htm\">How Stuff Works<\/a>. It reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Improved engineering and handsome styling made the 1940-1941 <a href=\"http:\/\/auto.howstuffworks.com\/ford.htm\">Ford<\/a> half-ton pickup a popular choice among truck buyers in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>Ford&#8217;s chief designer E.T. &#8220;Bob&#8221; Gregorie gave the all-new 1940 light-duty trucks the crisp, clean &#8220;prow front&#8221; styling of the 1939-1940 passenger cars, and this carried over to the 1941 Ford truck line.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cars.cars-ydse.com\/zoomR-v1.html?jpg=1940-Ford-Pickup-IMG_20160124_083730.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cars.cars-ydse.com\/small\/1940-Ford-Pickup-IMG_20160124_083730.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"196\"><\/a>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cars.cars-ydse.com\/zoomR-v1.html?jpg=1940-Ford-Pickup-IMG_20160124_083648.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cars.cars-ydse.com\/small\/1940-Ford-Pickup-IMG_20160124_083648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"196\"><\/a>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cars.cars-ydse.com\/zoomR-v1.html?jpg=1940-Ford-Pickup-IMG_20160124_083618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cars.cars-ydse.com\/small\/1940-Ford-Pickup-IMG_20160124_083618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"196\"><\/a>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cars.cars-ydse.com\/zoomR-v1.html?jpg=1940-Ford-Pickup-IMG_20160124_083718.jpg=amc-gremlin-3510.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cars.cars-ydse.com\/small\/1940-Ford-Pickup-IMG_20160124_083718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"196\"><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the picture to Z O O M in.This truck was parked right outside of a Peets Coffee shop just a few blocks from my home in San Francisco. To me, it had recently been restored and it looked like a job really done well. I did not get a chance to look at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/?p=2708\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1940 Ford Pickup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}