COE COE Picture thread (imported from main board)

Here are a few from Back to the Fifties in June. BTW Follow the Sun Express is one very nice truck, sits on custom frame rails and Freightliner axles. I don't know engine make, but it is a big truck diesel.

 

BTW, I see there have been some good changes since I left, may have to drop back in for a while. Haven't done much on the Autocar due to motivational challenges. (In other words, I'm taking a break to get my head back on straight)

 

this was all at the same show? 3 COEs at one show? That's impressive. Was the yellow one really a ragtop?

 

Good to hear from you Steve . We have missed you . They just leave us alone over here . Blue

 

Yup, the yellow one is a ragtop. Back to the Fifties is a 14,000 car show, so 3 isn't a very good showing. There may have been more, but it is hard to see everything at a show that large.
It was at this show back in the early 90s that I saw my first rodded COE and thought this is for me. 26 years later, I'm still trying to get one finished.

 

Steve! Glad you picked up the olive branch I tossed into the yahoo group. We need all of us big-ugly truck guys we can get in here. We're perfectly content to stay tucked away in these social forum back rooms.
JML

 

When I went to the Good guys event in Rhinebeck, there were two other COE's staying at the same Motel. These things are getting as common as Deuce Coupes...lol

 

Yeah but at least they are not all painted Red (grin)

 

Buford's new friend at the Granite State Old Truck Meet (formerly the Barrington Antique Truck Show).

 

BTW: That little tow truck on the back of the green COE is the REAL DEAL! It towed midgets at the track back in the day! It's a flathead V8! I asked the owner why there were no plates on it, he said he doesn't drive it on the street. I said "Why not?!?"....

 

Copied this from vintage shots on main board , I love it .

 

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/pts/5764678817.html

 

Yes and a custom nose and 39 up style GMC grill

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/pts/5764678817.html

 

chevy??

 

Now 200 pages loooooong!!!

 

Nice COE from Edmonton that was in Radium Car show

 

Another one from show in Henderson NV today

 

I would love to know what chassis, particularly front suspension, he is using.
JML

 

I think the copper/silver one was at Back to the Fifties a few years back, if the same one, it is on a late model IH chassis with a DT-466 for power. IIRC it was also converted to tilt cab. High quality all the way.

 

thats what it looks like from here...
Thanks Steve!

 

The red truck has an interesting front bumper.....anybody have a guess to what it started out as?

A buddy of mine here has a couple of IH school busses with 466's, I've been wondering if they would work as a platform for a "big truck" build or if they are too wide......not that I need another project!

 

My avatar is on a Dodge dually axle and it is none to wide. A schoolie axle is the standard medium duty width, which isn't much wider. Both are 96" rear axles and schoolies have the standard 34" frame width.

 

I've been hankering to fetch a school bus for my COE foundation. Been intending to go measure front track width on a few. I think I could also repurp the bus body onto a Big Tex double-dually gooseneck trailer to combine as an oversized toy box with quarters fore and car hauler aft - sized to carry my matching F-100.

Funding and time - the perpetual hurdles.

 

Speaking of Avatars mine is a 1947 Diamond T.......You gota love a truck who's motor is called a Hercules.

 

Does anyone have a picture of the copper/silver COE with the cab raised, I'd like to see how he designed it. Thanks

 

I thought I had pictures, but can't find any now. Sorry!

 

Thanks for trying!

 

Don't know if this has been posted before . I found on a metal working blog .

 

Here's a beauty...