Ed & Leonard Leon from Spring Valley Automotive in San Diego
1947 Ford COE
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Ed & I have had the truck for about 15 years most of which was time just sitting around.
 We bought the cab , a 1947 Ford F5 COE, & a disabled 1986 Ford E350 Super Van
 to use as a chassis back then with the idea of transforming it into a business tow truck.
 Last year we decided it was important that we get off our collective butts & do something with it.
What you see in the pictures is the result of about 6 months of constant work by our creative
 and skilled fabricator Ben Ellis. It is not actually a tow truck, however we have fitted it
with a hitch so we can tow our other classic vehicles to car shows.
 We literally gave Ben free reign over the project & the result proves we were smart to let him have his way.   
No shear, metal brake, bender, English were used for these fabrications.
 For such a young man Ben is truly old school and we are lucky to have him with us.
 He will eventually finish the body sheet metal & install a wood floor in the bed.
  
 The finished body & paint will be somewhere further down the road as we would like continue
to admire it's raw & rough looking presentation for a while longer.
It has a kind of apocalyptic "Road Warrior" look to it that tends to catch the eye, don't you think?.
   
And a closer look , you might think there is a lot of room under a COE Chassis but when you put the engine
 behind or use a short wheelbase chassis you run out of room real fast, check the location of the mufflers
  
A truck needs to have Dual Wheels like this.