COE COE Picture thread (imported from main board)

Pics would probably help your situation as well as info on the engine / Trans / suspension setup.

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It is an OT so I did not want to list the details here on the Hamb, however, I wanted a fellow Hamber to get first shot at it. It is very cheap for all that is here. I will be glad to give anybody that is looking for one all the info in a P.M.

 

Put the door handles back on and gave the 39 a new coat of primer.

 

Is it only me, but I find these lowered trucks utterly stupid looking...?

These were once true work horses, now they are castrated to sweet teddy bears and dropped to ground not even to clear a country road...
I'd like at least once to see one running as it once was. Even if not hauling load, but at least standing on his own feet.

 

You have 251 posts on a hot rod forum, but you don't like lowered trucks. Hmm! Lowered is a fact of life here.

 

On vacation and saw these in NM .

 

He may only have 251 posts but he's been here longer than you. I like lowered cars/trucks also but there is a limit to the lowering before they begin to look broke. My .02

Joyflea nice looking trucks you posted and they are lowered without looking broken

 

Everyone has their sense of what looks good. I don't mind lowered if the rest of the build is done right. To me, stance, proportion, custom features, etc all need to work together. Some COE's I've seen have none of these working together....they just look wrong.

 

From Pintrest

 

That light blue one is on air, so it goes up and down as he sees fit. He drives it on the street at a reasonable height.

 

Excuse me Sir if I hurt your feelings, but to me Lowered is not equal to Hot Rod.
I like hot rods traditional, the way they were in the 50's.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7e/ab/e4/7eabe411b3ec8802a03d52dfa6b7053a.jpg

 

Granted, this whole thread has been on the cusp of being closed because what we post here really isn't "traditional". We've been warned a few times and I think we've been given great latitude by the admins that other 'interest groups' haven't been afforded.

That said, you're right tinsled, these aren't traditional. Nobody built 50's COE's in the 50's at all, didn't put them on IFS frames, didn't diesel power and turbo them either... BUT these trucks have been made very usable, and more so than when they were new.

I like my stuff in the weeds. Just because you don't doesn't mean they're unusable, it just means the owner didn't plan to go rock crawling with it. My '54 is going on a '76 dually chassis and will be low. I don't care if I can't drive it through a field to dig a car out, that's what my trucks for. Different strokes for different folks.

Why don't you build a big lifted one and show us the error of our ways?

 

Style Kings, San Francisco Bay Area.

The picture was taken at The Stranger's show in History Park, San Jose, CA.

 

Hmmm... That's weird, I could've sworn that I've seen pictures of rods and customs built in the 50's lowered........!! LoL!

 

Got some pics of the Shopdawg at speed this weekend

 

Lookin' good Shopdawg, I like the darker blue.

 

MORE FROM PINTREST

 

Nice pics Barry, I like the rockies in the back window of your car and in the picture. What is this speed you talk about? 430 miles round trip that day.

 

Have my 4x4 up and running, going to sell my 2 wheel drive. Built on a 2001 chevy express van chassis with a 2000 gmc Yukon drive train. Has LS type motor/ 4 speed auto. It's the light green one. Want 12.5k for it. call or message, could deliver to Dallas area for a fee. John 719-845-0188

 

ok for the vintage GMC guys, this one will blow yer mind... have you.... no ,
you have NEVER seen a model ay

1939 model AY !!

 

in the Dallas c-list...

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/pts/5630966852.html

 

near as I can tell the model AY was obviously low production, and was fabbed out of the front end of the little metro step van

 

A couple models that I snagged from the latest Scale Auto

 

Cool article on Larry Wood's COE http://www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/1504-larry-woods-1938-ford-coe-and-vintage-1951-spartan-trailer/

 

REO

 

This might be the coolest thing I've ever seen! I'm already envisioning an opening back with sliding ramps to drive a roadster in and out of! Those fade away fenders that don't fade would hinge at the bottom and reveal all kinds of tools and goodies!

I'm gonna look for more pics of this!

The top looks kind of Futureliner, and kind of one of those modern Euro aerodynamic trucks.

 

Damn you Banjeaux Bob! Like I needed another distraction!

https://www.google.com/search?q=Reo...AIVQsdjCh1iSAL7#tbm=isch&q="Reo+Speed+Tanker"

 

Damn you again!
http://theoldmotor.com/?p=142880

 

To be perfectly honest, There is NO Way anyone could find an insurance company that would cover that original one being driven on the roads, nor could anyone find a tire outfit that would deal with those old suicide split rings

 

To be perfectly honest, there is NO WAY anyone could find an insurance company that would cover driving on like that bottom original one, Nor could anyone find a tire shop that would deal with those old suicide split rings.