Ouray, Colorado

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 10/01/2018 at 16:32 • Filed to: None

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September, 1940.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 16:36

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I went there once as a kid, it’s very much like a piece of the Swiss highlands in the middle of the US. They also have a couple of sweet box canyons/slot canyons, plus they host one of the world’s biggest ice climbing festivals thanks to being surrounded by waterfalls. Pretty amazing place.

Just Jeepin' > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 16:37

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Lesson for stepside trucks: two tone paint  is your friend. Ugh.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 10/01/2018 at 16:40

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fintail > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 16:42

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Pickup looks like a Studebaker Express ~1938, pretty rare.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 16:46

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The vehicle is somewhat unusual.

It’s a “car-style” pickup (a ‘38 Studebaker Coupe Express*) made years after most big manufacturers had gone to more distinctly “truck” styling and construction.

The ‘39 actually carries the car styling so far as to look like a pickup Lincoln-Zephyr.

Willys was another holdout for “car-style” pickups, as seen with this ‘37:

Nash also built a few pickups with passenger car bodywork after the war for dealer use. Probably the last holdout overall.

*I knew it was one of only a few of this kind, but I didn’t actually do the ID. Someone at Shorpy had it already.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/01/2018 at 16:49

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Of course, Dodge Sweptside pickups are worth a mention...

No car styling up front per se, but around back.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/01/2018 at 16:57

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So, in other words, it’s the Urcamino. 

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/01/2018 at 16:57

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So, it’s like a mullet truck: serious in the front, party in the back. 

ttyymmnn > fintail 10/01/2018 at 16:58

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Not so rare in 1940, though, amirite?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 17:07

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Well, it’s of the Urcamino family. Since so much early truck commerce was done on the backs of things like Model T trucks, and companies that later specialized into trucks like White were making cars...

Like a lot of things, the coming of Budd process bodies probably played a large role in styling becoming more distinctive between car and truck lines . If the body isn’t assembled from mixed and matched chunks, you have to make your trucks’ bodies separately. If you’re making your trucks separately, less of a reason to update them so much every year to keep up with styling. If you’re not trying to keep up with styling and you’re open to try to express “rugged” more than “super-cool” with what styling you have...

And so on.

Interestingly, a lot of wagons were built on platforms in kind of the car/truck gray area in the brief time period that coach wagon building filled the new gap between more streamlined sedan designs and the older sedan style sans trunk.

BobintheMtns > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 17:30

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Not much changed in Ouray since this pic was taken it seems.....

ttyymmnn > BobintheMtns 10/01/2018 at 17:36

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Studebaker replaced with Jeep.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 10/01/2018 at 17:39

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I wonder if the folks at D uckett’s Market have seen this photo. I’d send ‘em a link, but I don’t Facebook, and it looks like that is their only web presence.

fintail > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 17:54

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Not like today (not sure if I’ve ever seen one in person) , but I think this was an offbeat choice even th en.

Just Jeepin' > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 17:56

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I’ll notify them. 

ttyymmnn > Just Jeepin' 10/01/2018 at 18:14

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Cool. Here’s the link to the original.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/23875?size=_original#caption

BobintheMtns > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 18:14

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Yup.. not much changed. Lol

You live in ouray or something??

ttyymmnn > BobintheMtns 10/01/2018 at 18:16

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Nope. That’s from Google Street View. I figured the shop was on the main drag, and I just “drove” down the street until I saw it.

BobintheMtns > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 18:18

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Nice.

Yeah.. the ‘main drag’ isn’t very long...

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 19:16

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Shame that nice brickwork under the cornice has been obscured. 

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > ttyymmnn 10/01/2018 at 19:53

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Oh, hey. I drove through there two days ago.

ttyymmnn > ranwhenparked 10/01/2018 at 23:54

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Maybe the people who own it now don’t know it’s there. Just Jeepin is going to send them the old photo via Facebook, since I don’t Facebook.

Khalbali > ttyymmnn 10/02/2018 at 12:13

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One of my biggest regrets is never making out that way when i lived in Denver.