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| Classic 1967 Ford Good Humor Ice Cream Truck The Good Humor truck is a true piece of Americana. It has the original porcelain sides with the Good Humor Logo baked in, florescent lights that light up the sides at night, the original bells. This is one of the original trucks that Good Humor use to send into your neighborhood, and you remember as a child. |
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Good Humor Trailer Good Humor use to send out some of their Good Humor truck with a trailer behind them. On their way to their route, they use to drop off a Good Humor man with the trailer at beaches, forest preserves, and busy areas. The truck would drive their route, and at the end of the day would pick up the trailer and attending Good Humor man, and return to the depot. |
| The Good Humor trucks The Good Humor man, entered and exited the street side for safety, and there is no door on the drivers side for that reason. Trucks of this style (called hoppers, or jump trucks) were made until 1969 when they discontinued this style truck and went to the step van style trucks. Since the step van trucks were more efficient, and comfortable to work out of, most of these trucks were junked, or sold off by the distributors. |
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The Good Humor Man The original Good Humor man wore all white with a black Sam Brown belt, black shoes, a coin changer, and a police style hat. The reason for this was to give a sense of safety and cleanliness. There was a handbook for all drivers on how to dress and act, Click here to see copies of drivers handbooks and all the drivers were employees of Good Humor.The Good Humor man tipped his hat to the women, and salute the gentlemen. He was instructed to shave every day, no beards or goatees, and his hair had to be above the collar. |
| These trucks were made for selling ice cream. Good Humor trucks were made for one thing, selling ice cream. The freezer boxes are very well insulated, and designed to last. The trucks were shipped from Ford, with the front end only, to Hackney Bothers body who installed everything from the dash back. There is a compressor mounted where the passenger seat that gets plugged into 220 overnight and it freezes to -20. The freezer box has cold plates mounted on the ceiling, front, and sides inside the freezer box that keeps it below 0 all day with out any additional power. |
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The start of Good Humor ice cream. It was 1920. Harry Burt had just created the Jolly Boy Sucker, a lollypop on a stick. Later, while working in his ice cream parlor, Burt developed a smooth chocolate coating that was compatible with ice cream. Unfortunately, the new combination was too messy to eat. Burt’s young son, Harry Jr., suggested that his dad take some of the wooden sticks used for the Jolly Boy Suckers and freeze them into the ice cream. The first ice cream on a stick was born. The name Good Humor came from the belief that a person’s “humor” or temperament was related to the humor of the palate (one’s sense of taste). To market his Good Humor Bars, Burt sent out a fleet of 12 chauffeur-driven trucks with bells to make door-to-door deliveries. The Good Humor Man was born. |
| We restore Good Humor trucks. Here is a 1969 Good Humor truck as we bought it. |
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We remove all the old stickers, deep clean the porcelain sides, and dismantle the truck. |
We send the truck out for a professional paint job. |
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When we get it back, we reinstall all the original parts, and do a through cleaning of the freezer compartment, service the freezer components, and replace freezer gaskets as needed. |
We add the vinyl graphics, and get all the original florescent lights working on the sides, and above the windshield, and make sure all the headlights, and tail lights work as they should. |
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Here is the 1969 Good Humor truck finished. The truck is now ready for another 40 years of service. If you have a old Good Humor truck that you would like to sell, please contact us. |
| We Buy, and Restore Old Good Humor Trucks. These trucks have lost value lately, but everyone thinks they are gold when most are really junk. EBay trucks that are nice, are not meeting reserve with high bids between the $11,000 and $12,000 range, . The ones that were poorly done are bringing bids of $5000.00 with new paint, but closer examination tells the real story, paint covered up junk. If your going to look at one of these truck, bring with your magnet to check for bondo filled holes, that were not repaired correctly. The prices are cheap to what prices use to be, but the market sets the price, and the prices have dropped. There are people who are selling trucks for 15 to 20 thousand that need restoration, now add in the price to make the truck right, ( about $15,000 when you do things correctly, and do the work yourself) your way over the price of what the truck is worth. Some of the trucks have been for sale for YEARS, and haven’t sold, that should give you the clue to stay away, or they are way over priced. Beware, there are also trucks out there with bad titles, 69’s titled as 67’s. The only trucks with heater controls are 69’s the last year they made the hopper style, and they didn’t make any hopper style trucks in 1968. The 67’s and 69’s have the serial number stamped into the frames on the passenger side, about a foot behind where the bumper bolts up, make sure the numbers stamped there, match the title number. I have even seen a truck with 3 different serial numbers. No use buying a truck you can’t get registered. For me to buy your truck, I will have the same amount of money invested to do a good quality restoration, no matter what the condition. I can’t buy your for over $10,000, and most likely won’t pay over $5000 unless the porcelain sides, and door hardware is in excellent shape, and everything is there. Many of the trucks left to buy are not worth restoring. Rusted out window frames, just rotted out to bad, I am even willing to buy those, but would use them for parts, or converting them to trailers. Looking for a ice cream truck to do events in the Chicagoland area, click here. |
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