1929 Fargo Truck

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Tried retrieving an old post but it's been archived. It was for a 1929 Fargo Clipper or Packet, does anyone recall ?

Original poster went by then name WCS on 03-18-2017 at 05:35:50
Here's the original link I found :
https://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ttalk&th=1805116

Question is the truck for sale ?
Also, notice the other pic taken in 1929. Wouldn't it be neat if this was the same truck all these years later ?

Regards,
Dave


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BTW , the Clipper was a 3/4 ton version and the Packet was the 1/2 ton version. Neither of these trucks shown are 1/2 ton and are both Clippers.
 
its a little hard to tell for sure but there seams to be a difference between the two right at the windshield visor might be a different roof line or just not enough clarity in the old pic, still cool
 
It is different. A lot of times what happens is guys don't redo the tops correctly and that's what it looks like when it's finished. The one on the bottom is the way it was supposed to return to but who ever put a new top in between 1929 and 2017 probably had nothing to go off of for reference purposes so they did the best they could. Not saying it is the same truck but rather just explaining what you are seeing in the photos.

Regards,
Dave
 
Nice old truck. If you look right below the soft top on the side of the truck one truck has a bead line and the other one doesn't.
 
Not Snap On exactly but you get the idea.. they were one of the first with the concept of hand delivering tools in the same respect that Snap On and Matco trucks do today.

Needless to say, the owner of the 1929 Clipper 3/4 ton in the original post has a very, very valuable truck if it is the same P&C Tool truck
 
It's on the other one too.... you just can't see it because of the original tuck. These trucks had the exact same body as my 30 Dodge (excluding the windows) and the tops were all designed to hide that line originally.


I've included a couple of other 1930 Dodge 3/4 ton Panels (again, same as the Fargo Clipper 3/4 ton) to one redone correctly and the other incorrectly. The incorrect one showing the line obviously.. which is part of what caused the water damage across the top of the green truck.



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With all due respect that isn't entirely correct.

Not to be a stickler and you may already know this but Chrysler took over Dodge around 1928 and had divisions of Dodge Brothers and Graham Brothers trucks (Graham were labeled under the Dodge name by this time) and then Chrysler made the Fargo separately so it had three truck brands going all at once just before the great depression and was to much so they phased out the Graham name and the Fargo lineup and sold Dodge's for exports as Fargo (which is I think what you're referring to). Dodge were never in control of the Fargo line, it's always been Chrysler who was in control of all of them since Chrysler bought them out.

Fargo name was used in the early days from 1913-1922 by the Fargo Motor Car Company. Chrysler brought the rights to the Fargo name in or around 1927 and began branding the new Fargo trucks as Packets, Clippers, and Freighters exclusively under the Fargo name but on the Plymouth lineup. All Fargo's had either Plymouth, DeSoto or Chrysler parts for the most part. Dodge was a separate brand and simply a division of Chrysler. I like to think of Fargo and Dodge Brothers trucks as cousins in a way. Chrysler is the grandfather of it all and Dodge and Plymouth were like brothers and the offspring would have been cousins... Dumb analogy I know but it helps someone simple minded like me keep it in perspective and easier to understand for memory purposes.

Many references are available that document this topic but it takes a long amount of cross referencing research to understand it all so I'll provide a couple of links that explain it briefly for the sake of time and simplicity for all of us.


https://www.allpar.com/old/fargo.html

https://www.allpar.com/model/ram/ram-history.html


Oh, and for the Ford lovers out there who may not know, you have the Dodge Brothers to thank for the success of the Ford brand whether you agree or disagree they made Ford who they were in the beginning until they branched off on their own in 1914.

Without the Dodge Brothers there would be no Ford as you know it today. Or maybe the correct way to put it is, Ford may have looked a lot more different in the early days if not for the Dodge's, especially the success of the Model T. Henry never forgave them for breaking out and starting up as a competitor but one cannot contain the entrepreneur spirit in us.
 

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