COE COE Picture thread (imported from main board)

I believe that is a 39?-40? GMC COE

 

This 1946 GMC came down from Maine with a couple bikes to run at the May Maxton Mile LSR event. Pretty neat workhorse.

 

That was me at Carsile.
I delivered them to Jim Carter Old Truck Parts. He will have them in his new catalog.

 

That looks like Dwight Bond's old Gibbon Fiberglass shop on the south side of the hwy, east of town.

 

Found this cool COE puller on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F2eN28a54g

 

What a great thread! Whenever I'm brousing the HAMB my four year old asks me to show him the cool trucks in the COE thread. We both love em and hope to pick one up some day to tug around our concrete pump.

 

That's cool! And it took place just 23 miles from where I live.

 

Anyone know the best factory style tilt steering column and steering box combination to to use in a 50 GMC COE? Im using a 76 Chev 1 Ton truck frame as the platform. I was thinking something from a van or Step Van?

Thanks...

Steve

 

Here is a shot of the 41 Ford coe front fenders I am building with 37 38 style head light buckets Danny

 

I did some looking around on the internet and fount this link;

www.nepowerpullers.com look in de "drivers Garage" you see the Ethanol Express

 

Are you using any solder around the right side of the headlight bucket, or is it
all TIG?

(Suggest you post pics under the "Let's See Some Metalshaping" thread for
better "exposure". Nice Work!!)

 

36 Rokit the panel is just sitting on top of the buck in that picture I will cut out every thing underneath. Tig in & metal finish I posted some early build pictures in it's own thread but nobody seamed interested in the progress so I just dropped it Danny.

 

Here are the coe's on my to do list. IH, Diamond T, and Autocar.

 

Cool, the old Autocar almost looks like a Preying Mantis.

 

Ethanol Express was here for the truck pull at the county fair last year. He drive it with a joystick. That thing is sure a beauty. To bad he built a pulling truck out of it.

 

That IH would make a wild front end..........

 

Anyone know the best factory style tilt steering column and steering box combination to to use in a 50 GMC COE? Im using a 76 Chev 1 Ton truck frame as the platform. I was thinking something from a van or Step Van?

Thanks...Hate to be a pest...I posted this once and no one responded...Just wondered what everyone else is doing for the steering column setup...

Steve
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Attached is my mates one from down here in New Zealand. I featured it in the Feb 2009 issue of the New Zealand Hot Rod Magazine

 

Here is a picture of a Chevy and Dodge COEs.

 

Found a cool 57 or so Dodge on the net



and a '55



and a '47 Weinie Wagon

 

Hey quadracerx the stering set up from a mid 80s van works best as the steering box is mounted near vertical. I am quite sure that this system is easily adapted to your 70s chev chassis. Hope this helps ! Grant www.schwartzwelding.com

 

I'd use an early tilt column from a late 60's GM product. They are much smaller then the later units, have no ign key mtd on them, and make for a much cleaner install. I plan on using the original column in mine. I was able to in my last Chevy COE by using a couple of u-jts. I really like the looks of the early Olds wheel I have in my truck, and the stock wheel/ angle works well for the layout of the cab. Hope this helps.

 

That 57 Dodge looks angry.

 

I think it's the miniature furrowed brow via V8 symbol.
JML

 

Here is some update photos of the reworked 41 coe front fender's I am working on Danny.

 

Todays up date on the 41 COE front fender I pretty much finised welding the head lite pods then ground the weld's inside & out. Next I did quite a bit of hammer, dollie, slap work then did some finish work with the shrink disc. next area is the front lower chins into the reworked wheel arches what do you think Danny.

 

Can someone help me ID what year this is???

 

It is the same body as the 41 Ford front fenders I am doing I think 38 to 41 were about the same Danny.

 

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Without seeing the Grille it's hard to tell a 39 from a 47, so it's somewhere in there.