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 …
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.
z31maniac said: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!
It's why David took this job, really.
Rodan said: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:
If anyone wants to build one of these, I have one ('66) available. Hemi not included.
That is awesome that you were friends with Mr. Riggle.
L5wolvesf said: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.
250, maybe? Externally the 170 and 250 were very difficult to distinguish. The 240 and 300 were externally identical.
David S. Wallens said:In reply to Russian Warship, Go Berkeley Yourself :
What about if the cab was up in the air but going backwards?
I've been trying to wrap my head around the physics involved to do this. Maybe really long, heavily weighted wheelie bars pointing forward? (ie, from the back). You should do it!
I went through her checkout and later learned her story
https://driving.ca/vehicle-types/classic-cars/the-first-lady-of-wheelstanders
You'll need to log in to post.
