Sorry OT....Old Semis

Fun is right!!

 

...I saw this hot rod Diamond T at a recent truck show, runnin a Cummins inlne turbo deisel, very nice truck. ...had suicide doors.

 

I just saw one of these just the other day an old timer built. He put it on a diesel duelly chassis.
I thought it might have been chopped, but that's the stock roof height. The dash was a trip...with the split windshied having duel cranks. His also had the rear side glass ( 5 window ) that he thought was dealer added.

A REO is very simular if not the same cab.
I rememmber an old hermit guy who lived in Agoura ca. years ago that had a REO... his was a gasser with a Gold Comet engine.

Cool looking trucks.

 

The problems people see with old trucks are that:
1. They're as addictive as old cars
2. They're cheap to buy, so you end up with too many (like 6 or so)
3. They're tough to move when not running
4. They take a lot of room to work on
5. There are very few repo parts available, so you'd better be able to do it yourself
6. They lack the cute & quick look many people like

On the plus side:
1. They are lots of fun
2. They have more presence than most old cars
3. You probably won't find others at the local events
4. The truck folks are really decent people-no attitude there
5. They are usually cheap to buy

 

Autocars are my favorite too. Here are a few.

 

I seen one of these in stock looking form running around out towards the Troy/Worden, IL area. I stopped at the Shell station in Hamel & I heard this low groan. I turned around to see a truck like the one above(but stock looking) fly by w/an old style semi-trailer in tow. It looked like it had just drove out of the 1940's....joe

 

IN-N-OUT uses vintage trucks still. they are very cool to see on the highways of california.

 

My family is very much into old Semi's. My brother in law has a few. I'll get pics together.

In the mean time.. This ones not very old.. Well, damn near 30 YEARS!! It's eligible for HISTORIC TAGS! But!!! I know most of us gear heads LOVED IT and rooted for it!

"How about ya SNOW MAN, ya gotcher ears on"







...and the move I'm known for:




It's a long story...













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Here's whats left of an old teen's Packard dump truck and a spare frame I checked out a few months ago. Might wanna bring a CHAIN SAW!













Joshua Shaw

 

thats the cleanest looking diesel rod i've ever seen.

 

I love old trucks................this is my old girl

 

Damnit, this is some more stuff I love.
I've looked at the cabs of some old R model IH trucks and invinsion a fairly "sleek" truck cab base for something the fenders might kill your mind trying to get the right look.
With me being in the truck parts business, I have a couple of customers trying to maintain trucks that are getting old and even a couple that are wanting to take an older truck, later Cat, Detroit, or Cummins power, and make a fuel mileage fun machine out of it.
1. It's getting very hard to source parts for trucks more than 15-20 years old witout the owner throwing a shoe over the price, OR getting enough money to pay for the parts to pay for the time invested in finding them----time and money management at work.
2. Back to time and money management, it's hard to pay the bills on a one time deal when your $5000 plus a month customer has two trucks in our shop needing _____________. Who pays the wages and bills when it's all said and done. Not the guy that can't believe you charged him $15.00 a piece for big truck wheel studs when the common ones are available for less than $5.00
I love to see and hear an old big truck. I'm just old enough and paid attention as a kid to know the difference as compared to today on dealing with big trucks on the road.
If it was 1972 and you met a semi on a two lane country highway, the air being pushed with the truck would damn near try to throw your car off the road when you met it. If you passed it, you would be pushed toward the ditch when the nose of your vehicle was about at the front tires, and the throttle was pushed more to keep the speed to keep on passing. The noise from the tires drowned out everything. The suspension clattering and banging was incredible even with a loaded truck.
Today, your can hear the tires if you listen. The engines don't drown you out when you're on the way by. The driver has smaller arms as compared to years ago, power steering in most everything. Air ride suspension at the rear, air ride seats, long taper leaf front springs instead of clattering ass 8-10 leaf springs. The driver can hop out just as rested as having driven all day in a loaded SUV.
A customer has a neat pair of trucks. A black mid '70's Kenworth W900 with a V-12 Detroit, and a matching K100 cabover with the same engine. Diesel drinkers.
Highway between Gunnison CO and Crested Butte, old red Kenworth dump truck, had to have been from the late '50's or close. Cast grill shell, cast letters painted white KW instead of the now standard Kenworth logo. Butterfly hood KInda related to the old Alaskan Hauler AMT model kit. Wished I could have taken a picture of that truck that vacation.
I know I've rambled, but this and more is stuff I've thought about and dreamed of since I starteed riding with my dad traveling Illinois and Indiana when trying to sell or delivering orchard sprayers and related equipment.
Hendrickson(built with an IH cab base), FWD (Four Wheel Drive), Brockway(modified Macks), Marmon (Marmon Herrington--Ray Harroun, Indy about 1911 in the Wasp, stopped truck production around 1995, Sterling as before Daimler brought the name bake to life, CCC (Crane Carrier Corp), old Autocars and Construction KIng White trucks, Diamond T, REO, Diamond Reo, Hayes, Pacific. KTA600, 3176, 12V-71, Maxidyne, make it grunt, holler, and smoke, LOVE IT!
I've been a fan of big trucks for most of my life. Thanks for getting my mind to spin more than normal. Shit, I smell smoke and hear gears-a-grindin', time to break out an AMT model truck again. Hmmm, the Pete 359 kt has a Brownie behing a Spicer 5 speed, the old W900 has an old 13 speed and a Hendrickson walking beam suspension, might be a heavy hauler in the making. Shit, it's still plastic.

 

Who remembers this rig.... From the TV show Movin' On...

 

Or Tyrone Malone's Boss Truck....

 

Or another of Tyrone Malone's -- Little Irvy

 

Can't forget Movin' On, Big wheels a rollin'...........Sonny Pruitt, box trailer dumped off the ferry and blows up.
Was it another network the did BJ and The Bear with BJ driving a long cap K100 cabover KW?
Dadgum, model truck ideas again.
The Boss Truck is on about first gen KW eight bag air ride. Can anybody show a model kit of the Bonneville truck with the "ramp truck" in the same box? Haven't ever heard a turbo'ed V-12 Allison. Bonnevile guys with pics?
I regress with Stillkruzn with the correction of the DRAG truck to follow. Thanks to all.

 

A couple of other Tyrone Malone trucks.... Can you tell that I like his trucks...

 

Just what we all need, another hobby to chase, kickass thread nice pics guys.

Brad

 

As a kid, I had the Movin' on, BJ and the bear, and the Detroit Diesel drag truck models built. As well as a Ryder Mack. Sometimes I wonder if these trucks in my youth were a subliminal message to keep piquing my interest in such things.

 

Now I am addicted, 1960 C-600 Ford

 

Back in my younger days in the 70's, I made dozens and dozens of those AMT truck models as well. I recall making that drag truck too at least once. I'd make cars and some boats and airplanes every once in a while too, but I cranked out those trucks over and over and over - I loved those things. From as early as I can recall, I could name about every kind of rig on the road from a about mile way on a clear day, easy. I use to draw trucks with flames and smoke shooting out all over the place. Probably why I still like old trucks to this day. Some things just never change for you no matter how old you get or what else changes in your life.

 

A friend of mine has this one, one of six built:



And then there was the Dearco. This was an actual truck design between Ford and GM:

 

Here's a few old truck pics from my 'stash'.

JG

 

Check out this website http://www.michellesfords.com/ there are links for this lady's current N950 Ford, her previous 1956 F600, an article with pictures on Ford H trucks.
Yes she drives the big truck and works on it, I wish I had my act together like her LOL.

 

the Stirling is one THE big trucks alright. Many were used by logging companies after WW2 and because they could be bought for nothing they were run into the ground. The tyres are earth mover tyres and many Stirlings were scrapped when the expensive cost of replacing torn up tyres became too much.
Australia also had it's VERY BIG trucks like these two.

Rottinoff Viscount, built for the Vesty meat company to run in the Wild north west of Autralia.
Chassis weight

21,800lb.

Brakes

S cam air with ratchet handbrake.

Gross combination rating

135,000lb

Clutch:

18in. single plate dry clutch

Wheel Base

24ft

Fuel system

triple filter in series

Max speed

47 mph @ 2100 rpm.

Cooling:

Copper rad 6 blade 24 inch fan

Overall length PM

40ft

Tyres

11.00 X 20 single front

Width over tyres

8ft

Steering

Hydraulic power assisted

Road train combo length

145ft

Cassis

alloy steel double skin 12 inches.

Triple combo length

200ft

Transmission

6 speed overdrive synchromesh with auxiliary 3 speed synchromesh

Engine

Rolls Royce c6sfl. Four stroke six cylinder engine giving 250bhp @2100rpm. Orque 710lb @ 1300 rpm Compression 14.0 to 1.

Rear Bogie

Kirkstall rear end.

 

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I love that Dearco! It's just plain bizzare! I'm into big trucks,
but that's a new one to me. "Aerodynamics?? What
areodynamics? Who the hell needs 'aerodynamics'??!!" <LOL>
Imagine using one as race car hauler and pulling into a track
with a couple Super Stockers strapped onto the top and the
bottom bays converted to living space and a mobile
workshop!

mart
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"Putting chrome on a Mack is like putting a bow
on a pig"
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Wasn't there a thread on here about a year ago, where somebody had found one of these and was asking if it was factory or coach built? As I recall, nobody really had the answer for him.

EDIT: I don't think that this is the one that I was remembering, but see post #20 in this thread. It shows a picture of a factory extended cab 1952 F1.

 

might as well post mine again. hope everyone isn't sick of it yet. '47 diamond t.

 

Here's my contribution... A 1955 155W Brockway which I just finished up last August...