History Old 4 Car Carrier

LOL You need to write stories!

 

My guess is someone had a junk yard or have been collecting old cars mainly Chevys, had the hauler in the woods, [yard] and just put them all together with a loader. Thinking it would make a cool picture. And make them easier to sell. If they were all separated in different places no one would get so excited. But together they are so cool. I would love to have it as is. Keep in mine they are fore doors and probably very rough. I like all the cool stories, that we can think could have happen. Thats what makes this picture so much FUN...

 

i'm not blaming or accusing you. Sorry if it sounded that way. I thought the picture was interesting too when I first seen it. I can see why you reposted it here, I thought about it too.

Seeing you said it was for sale already and me just seen it listed on an auction site made me go hmmm and wanted to make sure no one from the hamb family just wired money for it before actually seeing it first and make sure it was still available.

Wish I knew which auction co. site it was but I've been searching and can't come up with it. Bad part it was on my old shop computer and that one died completely since then and that computer had my complete list of auction co. I follow on it. House computer only had the local auction co's on it.

I keep thinking it was at the Tulsa auction that is today but I can't seem to find it there. for some reason I want to say it was listed on an auction that is in the next day or 2 or this coming weekend at least before march. but then I keep thinking maybe the auction is just over for it and that is why I can't find it again.

I also was thinking you said craiglist but see now you said facebook so i'm going to check and see if by chance someone sent me a link there to it. You sure got my head spinning when I saw that picture again.

 

Yes I thought of that. However JW (Dub) Endicott and Johnny Lee Melton drove those trucks. Johnnys brother Curtis owned the trucks and he bought them new. Ive heard both men tell the tale of hauling brand new 55 chevys from St Louis To Oakland. Possibly they sold more cars out west than they could manufacture? The local Newspaper once did a article and posted a picture of the Trucks with loaded 55 chevys. Those guys ran the old route 66. The trucks had hyd brakes and the trailers where vacuum brakes.

 

Ultimate yard art.
I'd park that on my front lawn.

 

Cool picture but $135,00 when 3 of the cars are 4 doors and everything needs full restoration? Hopefully the owner eas smart enough to take that insane offer.

 

Exterminator, I guess you haven't heard the song "Phantom 309" by Red Sovine?

 

Oh maybe I misread that. If its 13,500.00 then Id park it in my yard and hang Christmas lights in it

 

Be nice to know a more specific location than just "Wilson, N.C.", so we could do a GoogleMaps.Com search. I bet it's an old wrecking yard, closed up and long forgotten about. It looks like the "trail" alongside the rig is fairly beaten down and worn, and there are more vehicles in the trees. The pic could even be more than 20 years old, and the area now developed. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Like this one at Speedy Bills, I thought it was a cool display of an unmolested barn find.

 

Maybe that 4 car carrier was the ultimate 'shine runner back in the day. Think about it.
How much everclear could you stash on that rig and drive unencumbered by the
revenuers?

Ray

 

Around here it was three finger willy.............

 

Sounds like one of those Jimmy Dean "Talkin' Songs" (e.g. "Big John," the coal miner).
(Only the hitchhiker finds out in the diner, "Big Joe's" been dead for 10 years"....)
Cool post- need to know MORE!

 

Yea that's a trucker who's waiting for his dispatcher to tell him where to drop his load of new cars.

 

And that, my friends, explains the origins of the new car smell!

 

No ,I haven't I guess.

 

Here you go.



And while we're at it, how about a little Jimmy Martin- The King of Bluegrass- as a bonus? Same genre, the heroic truck driver.

 

In country music, that type of song is referred to as a "recitation."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recitation_song

 

Thanks for posting these songs.

 

This was posted elsewhere about the cars. The guy claimed to have touched them. "This rig is in Sims, Nc. Right off the interstate, you can almost see the junkyard from the highway. Not far from Wilson."

 

That story about the 49 Chevys is for real (I think) some news about it in about 1981> Google and let's see .

 

My old hooker stories don't end like that!

 

I also saw it posted on FB. It was posted on the AD group site. The seller stated that it came with 3 55 Chevys, 2 four doors and 1 2 door. All Sedans but they are obviously, 56 Chevys. The seller was selling it as yard art.

 

This one is a lot older, way more expensive but comes with all the land and yard art!
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/4-you-junkyard-junkys-a-fix.351496/

 

Thanks-You never know what you're going to learn on here!
This is a cool thread for sure- Vintage truck pics and country music; all I need now is a dog and a cold beer!

 

My wife said, he probably got lost and wouldn't ask for directions. Like someone else she knows! lol I want that rig Soooooo bad!

 

I love that picture!Is that in Washington state?

 

I looked all through that thread. You say it's all for sale now? Did the fella pass on?

 

Thanks Mike, That is the ultimate Model T Ford race car rig. The DO Fronty hasn't been off the hauler since its last race in the 1930's. I got to see it outside under a tarp in the 1970's. Bob

 

doing a Google search, this is the only junkyard looking place in Sims that I could find.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7720174,-78.0650796,830m/data=!3m1!1e3