The farm truck
What was the most famous farm truck? This is a toss-up between the Beverly Hillbillies’ Model T that Jethro drove granny to Beverly Hills in as she sat in her rocking chair in the back, and the Model A that John Boy and his dad drove in The Waltons.
When I was a farm kid in the 1950s we couldn’t afford a truck, but it was my dad’s dream to have one. In the 1950s a half- ton truck, (besides a tractor), was one of the most useful machines on a farm. Remember that motorized vehicles (cars, trucks and tractors) only replaced horses after the Second World War.
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