COE COE Picture thread (imported from main board)

Couple from Charlotte Good Guys :

 

Bill, thanks for the info. Looked at your site and like your build.

 

Here is a clean 55 ford from so. Oregon sitting in a used truck lot.

 

This 51 is perfect....what is the deal? For sale or for sittin?

 

just got another COE. this one is a '53 with a V8 and a hoist. found it on CL in Pratt Kansas.







also got the '47 dodge more "finnished" and tied a tractor on the bed




Tommy

 

Hey Tommy, I need some photos of your '48 COE Holmes Wrecker. That '53 COE, is nice. Catch ya later, Spanky

 

[QUOT E=spankster;5826717]Hey Tommy, I need some photos of your '48 COE Holmes Wrecker. That. '53 COE, is nice. Catch ya later, Spanky[/QUOTE]

The old girl hasn't moved since the first pictures. I stop by every few months to say hi and put some mouse poison in the cab. I have a '57 235 to stick under the floor pans. She was on my list for this winter until the '53 showed up.

 

need help finding a sleeper like the one on the car carrier .....on page 56 picture 1119,,,through the*****in chickins out or the mother in law.......find me one and you get a finders fee ,,,but you will have a house guest cause im sure that your not on the isle of long....is long as its not the big island ill try to get there thanks alll vic

 

Cool Looking COE you have. Love to see A build thread over it.
Have fun building.

 

Nice looking Chevy Tommy. Wat are your plans with it?
Have fun Building.

 

Building a 1948 ford COE.. any suggestions on what type of late modern frame to put under it. I would like to build a flat bed. thanks.

 

KoosCOE, plan is to clean her up, running well, stopping nicely and get the hoist going. Then throw some junk on the bed and drive around. I have a pair of '61 4-doors that would look neat stacked in the bed.


Tommy

 

I'm looking for a COE truck or nice cab...Anybody out there has one that they want to sell or even trade...Please call me 1-304-738-3262 or email me back at - -
jims35nash@atlanticbb.net

I would be willing to trade my 1954 chevy pickup...Real nice, the body is sitting down on a 1984 chevy S/10 frame, with a 350 V/8, 350 trans, lot of chrome on her...looking for a real nice coe to build or one that is done...Want it to pull our 28'camper...
thanks Jim, or none as "Crooked Hat"

 

Tommy, I plan to install the medium wheelbase service body W35 Holmes Wrecker I removed from the '46 Chevy I had. The truck I plan to install it on, is a long wheel base, low milage, '52 GMC 470 series 3 1/2 ton COE, with full air brakes. This service body is about two feet too short, so I need close up photos of a long wheelbase W35 Holmes service body like yours, so I can possibly fabricate the forward tool compartment section, like yours has, so it can stay original looking.

 

The Big Show is still one of my favorites.

 

Nice '47 Dodge Tommy.

 

Mine just arrived in Sweden after selling it at the LA Roadster Show. New wheels and tires as well.

 

A pit The truck whas not in Zweden when I was there on vacation this summer. I love to see it fore real.

I alson found A 1954 Chevy COE fore sale on the internet in Zweden.


We hade some great fun with my COE on the vacation. Lot of photos where taken. At shows but also at the gas station, shopping mall ore at the camping site. It feels nice to see othere smile when we pas by

 

Wow very very nice
I hope to see this one some day

 

Koos, sounds like a great vacation. How many miles/km's did you end up putting on it?

 

added some pictures, hope they help

 

Missing radiator shroud panel for my 47. Anybody have a spare one they want to part with?

 

We drove 2000miles/3200km. I only hade one fuse broken from the airsuspention, the light swits mail function and two times the battery was dead after to much cruising.(the radiator fans pull to much amps)
The engine was very cool, only 160f

See some video on;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCgTPYXic4
http://www.youtube.com/jobergg#p/a/u/2/owvxPNNUQkM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOS1kmdgSf4

 

I can have A look in my storage if I stil have it. For the cost of schipping you me have it. I dont know the cost becose I sent it from the Netherlands. Koos

 

Tyhanks Koos. That would be great. I have no idea on the shipping costs,or how it would get shipped. Let me know if you have one and we'll go from there.
Thanks, Baron

 

Here's the rust I dragged home the other day. It's a 53 Chevy coe that work hauling spuds in Central Washington. By the****le I got with it the ol boy bought it in 1970 and he said they used it up till two years ago. Luckily I live in the desert so the truck isn't really too rusty and these shots are of the bad side..
Plans call for a new(er) frame and a like period stepside box, just not too short maybe 9 feet to keep proportionate. Still looking for insight as to using a truck frame or a van, but now that it's home I'll start measuring and figure it out. I'm kinda tall (6'4") and wear an extra-medium size sweater (haha) so I'm also considering mounting the engine behind the cab to get rid of the doghouse.
Fourspeedwagon

well, I thought I would post pics, but it kept failing- I posted them in my photo album but..
at least I will give this a bttt

 

Looks pretty good to me.

 

here's a couple

 

I used a 89 Chevy 1 ton dually chassis. Shortened the 136 inch wheelbase to 106". Kicked the rear of the frame 3 inches to drop the same as the front 3 inch dropped spindles. I mounted my engine back just under the seat riser. This let me leave the floor panels in there stock configurationfor maximum foot room and less engine noise and heat.

I'll make a cover that will be be easily removed after the seat cushion is off the riser for access to the carb and distributor.

 

This one belongs to a friend of mine. He drives the hell out of it, dragging old cars and his 5th wheel EVERYWHERE. It's on an Isuzu chassis.