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Did anybody made a ball assembly (to tow) for a 1942 chevy pickup truck.

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Here in the U.S. almost every small town or city has a place that specializes in installing and fabricating trailer hitch balls, often they are also muffler shops. This means that there is no real market for a bolt on assembly. Apparently Europe doesn't have muffler shops and hitch fabricators?

I would weld in a receiver hitch and not try to use a ball on the bumper unless you plan on towing something as light as your lawnmower. They weld on between the frame rails on AD trucks, don't know about the 42.
Draw Tite makes a large selection.
http://www.drawtite-hitches.com/?OV...OVADID=2066031022&OVKWID=19879794522

I don't wish to Contraindicate anyone, but I have a bumper hitch off a 49 3/4 ton pickup. Yes they were made. It is a cast iron piece with jaws similar to a vise. It is made to grip onto a spring steel bumper of that era. The one I have is a single bolt setup. I know of two bolt setups using the clamp mode. I also know that there are variants that use U bolt designs. While mine has a modern threaded one piece ball the correct part is a ball that has a bolt that passes through the ball and is threaded at the bottom. There may be some even different setups from a earlier era that were used.

Yes, you could get a clamp on generic bumper hitch, but they weren't meant to haul any weight or have even moderate tongue weight. I managed to bend a back bumper to the ground by trying to accelerate too quickly with an equipment trailer with a 1932 Model 90 Buick sedan many years ago with such a set-up.