Looks like most of the hard work has been done.
Photography Courtesy Muscle Car Jr.
Remember our recent chat about wheelstanders–all those crazy, crowd-pleasing creations from back in the day? Maybe here’s a chance to build your own.
Our friends at Muscle Car Jr.–we’re going back to the days of film–have this 1961 Ford Econoline pickup for sale.
During the height of the wheelstander craze, these forward control vans and pickups provided the raw clay for countless legends: Little Red Wagon, of course, but also Super Ford, Mighty Mouse, Chuckwagon, Paddy Wagon and so many more.
[Do you know what this is? (Wrong answers only.)]
But wait, it gets better here: Located in the back of this Econoline’s bed sits a 425-cubic-inch Caddy V8 backed by an Eldorado transmission.
More to love: It already has a straight front axle, air shocks and four-wheel discs.
Some finishing required but, quick, get the owner of Hemi Under Glass on the horn for a grudge match.
Looks like most of the hard work has been done.
Backup Pickup
It's the only sensible answer.
In reply to Russian Warship, Go Berkeley Yourself :
What about if the cab was up in the air but going backwards?
Please buy this and make my 12-year-old dreams come true.
David S. Wallens said:Please buy this and make my 12-year-old dreams come true.
Add it to your stable and write a feature about it!
A good friend of mine, and motorcycling buddy since the late 90's was Bob Riggle. Bob was an avid rider, and I always ribbed him for driving cars on two wheels as well. He was best known for driving this:
Besides building, driving and maintaining the Hemi Under Glass, Bob built wheelstanders for other drivers and taught them to drive them. Unfortunately it's too late to have Bob build you one, because he passed in August.
Miss you, Bob...
That's so cool that you knew a legend like that so closely.
Thanks. Bob was a hell of a guy. He could build anything, and he was utterly fearless. A couple younger riders on sportbikes joined our group one day for a ride down the mountain, and Bob schooled them pretty hard. On a dirt bike. At 74 years old! I could tell stories for days... 
I found the Econoline Pick-ups fun to watch! Great brakes
I had a school bus yellow one, with the corner windows, back in the late 70s. I swapped in a 240 in place of a well used 170 (IIRC), stuck in a pair of Camaro buckets and did some other "modernizing". It was great for hauling a couple off road bikes. Unfortunately a drunk ran into it on the drivers front while parked. Mangled just about everything there.
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