Making a trailer from a Ford model T pickup bed

Well, I've been thinking (my wife says that is dangerous) about it and think it would make a dandy little light duty trailer for my CJ2A.  The bed is only 42" x 56", so its small and light.  It just so happens that Harbor Freight has a sale going on their new line of trailer kits.  Their mini trailer is 40.5" x 48" and on sale for $199, pretty close to what I need for the bed.  With a little fab work, I think it will mount up well.  This would not be suitable for serious off road use, but for light duty camping and Home Depot runs, it would be just the ticket.  More to follow.

Here is the trailer kit:

    

Here are some before, during and after pics of the bed.

 

Yes, some adapters to get from those 4 lugs to a standard bolt pattern would have made up the difference....I imagine the smallish size of those hubs would have had to have custom adapters though.

 

(then you get into a full size wheel and tire adapted to a rather smallish 4 bolt pattern...a lot of weight there)

 

 

I really didn't like the ugly plastic lights that came with the trailer kit. So I looked around, then ordered a set of these vintage style tail lights for it. 

Well, here is the back story...

A friend of mine brought this to a pre-war swap meet last year. All the other antique people walked past it saying it was too far gone to waste their time on. Towards the end I was talking with him. With no takers, and not wanting to take it home, he offered it to me dirt cheap. I'd toyed with the idea of making my 1924 model T touring jalopy into a pickup. But I too thought the bed was too far gone also. But in the waning hours of the swap meet, he convinced me to take it off his hands. 

That was the beginning of 2 months of hard work. As I worked on it, I kept saying to myself "why did I buy this thing?"  Well, no one else wanted it and I just couldn't bear to see it go to the scrapper. After it was finished last summer, it was stuffed into my enclosed trailer and all but forgotten. I had decided not to convert the model T to a pickup. About a month ago I decided to do the trailer conversion and put it to some use.

The other antique people didn't want it. So I drug it home and saved it from the scrap heap. Its still pretty rough, but it will live on while its in my care.