COE COE Picture thread (imported from main board)

Bed sides are fitted and primed. Tomorrow I will start cutting up the 52 Chevy pick up rear fenders to fit the dual rear wheels. I will have to widen them 4 inches and lengthen them about 6” to keep them in proportion with the front fenders. Stake pockets are in the works. They will look like stock 47 to 53 pickup stake pockets, only 5 inches longer.

Rear bumper is a piece of 9 inch channel,1/4 inch wall. I still need to weld in a receiver for my trailer and mount my electrical connector.

 

Looking nice,
Did you weld the sheet to tube on the sides??
If so, how did you stop it from warping??
I'm toying with a rounded top edge bed myself.

 

I did. I clamped a long piece of angle iron to the underside of the top bend which held the tubing ( 1 3/4" exhust pipe) parallel to the end and keep the sides and tubing from warping. I mig welded it doing short welds and letting it cool off in between passes. Ground down the welds, quick skim coat of bondo and they look decent.

 

#1743 Could be a big inch Caddy too. Thats the 2nd/3rd one I'v seen on here. I'd be interested in any build threads or other info if its out there... looks like something like something that could be done on a realistic budget.

 

These are some very cool COE's. Good thing I'm not close to there. I'd be divorced.

 

This is really a nice Diamond T! Very Nicely done.

 

Without quoting or referencing anything nobody knows what specific truck you're talking about.

 

Guessing maybe he met this one? Certainly is nicely done.

 

I thought so!
Cool, thanks for that Baron

 

keep them coming just read through the 88 pages and loved it all

 

It's a fantastic thread.

Just so you know, it's site rules to make an introduction thread for your first post, if you don;t you will get people jumping down your throat.

But welcome to the site.

 

Here are a few COE's for you to look at. The one with the number 4216 is an SP Cab Forward steam locomotive that ran past my house for twelve years. A family member was the Engineer (Driver) and he'd sure lay on the steam whistle and the Air Horn to tell us hello.
Normbc9

 

More COE eye candy. This is the old GMC rusted hulk we found over on the coast in Mendocino County near Caspar, CA. I rode on this as a firemen in 1954 in La Mesa, CA. It was so slow we have the Plugman on back run down to the corner to stop the cross traffic so we wouldn't have to stop this 62 hp beast and try to start it going again.
Normbc9

 

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Ha! Too cool! Now here's a challenge fit for
the HAMB. I'd like to see someone "hot rod'
one of those!!!

Mart3406 ('who still get "steamed" and
feels that he's been "railroaded" when
he gets accused of having a "one track"
mind'. )
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Posting pics like an old pro. Excellent job as well as the COE pics.

 

Here's one you don't see everyday.... posted on FTE. (look closer)

 

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The '53 through '56 Fords are about
my favourite C.O.E's. Back in the
late-60's and early 70's , one our
neighbours in Winona Ontario, a local
racer named Danny Newcomb (anybody
here remember that name?) had an
injected big block, '66 Chevelle gasser
('The Street Cleaner I') and then later
an injected big-block, '40 Chevy coupe gasser
('The Street Cleaner II") and used a '53
or '54 Ford (or possibly a Mercury) C.O.E.
similar to the Ford C.O.E. pictured above,
but with a long wheelbase and powered by
a built and very healthy 409 Chev and made
into a ramp truck to haul his race cars around
on.

Mart3406
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I really liked JohnnyJalopy's concept so I just had to Photoshop it. Not exact but pretty close I think.

 

WOW!!!! Excellent work!!! ^^^

 

1954 Peterbilt Model 280


1949 Peterbilt Model 350


1956 Peterbilt

 

OahuEli- that looks great! could you change the truck to the 38-40 ford cabover? please!

 

Patrick46 & Pex, thanks guys, I was having fun with that one. Pex if you can find a shot of a 38-40 cab from roughly the same angle I'll give it a shot. I'll look for one also.
Eli
Edit: Pex I just realized what COE you have, looks pretty cool. Shoot me a pic of your cab from the same angle and I' ll have at it.

 

I can. It is a COE FWD chassis that was one of two sold to the Los Angeles County Fire Departemnt in 1958 and built up by a fire body builder in LA named Calavar Corp. One was****igned the number Engine 373 and stationed at Newhall (sta. 73) and the other was Engine 382 and****igned to the La Canada-Flintridge (sta. 82) north of Pasadena on Foothill Blvd. I used to drive E-373 and it was a monster. You had to use a ladder to access the drivers door. They both had Hall-Scott 935 inline six engines in them with a square tooth five speed gear box. They were cheerfully called "Ball busters."

 

This was a Los Angeles City FD owned Aircraft Crash Fire Rescue vehicle serving at the Van Nuys Airport. It is built on a FWD chassis that was a 4 X 6 drive system
Normbc9

 

Hi Greg,
We met a couple years ago. I am building the '39 GMC COE I bought in High River.
Did you get a 3/4 ton diff? I have a 3:73 14 bolt corporate that I bought from the guy in Granum. I think it's a 1 ton single wheel. Not using it now, so $150. same as I paid, if you want it.

Thanks
Kelly

 

YES PLEASE
on that one

 

The other day, I posted a bunch of vintage
C.O.E. truck ads on my "Vintage Car Ads"
thread - posts 222, 223, 224, 225, 226 and
227. (Start page -
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=507437&highlight=mart3406 )

Some of these old ad pics might be
inspiration for somebody to resurrect
and/or hot-rod one of these old beasts
or help in I.D.'ing a hulk that somebody
finds.

Mart3406
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1) Studebaker C.O.E. Trucks - 1936 and '37
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6506723&postcount=222

2) Dodge C.O.E. Trucks - 1940, '41 and '46.
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6506881&postcount=223

3) Chevrolet C.O.E. Trucks - 1940, '46,
'48 and '49
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6506893&postcount=224

4) GMC C.O.E. Trucks - 1937 and '39
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6506904&postcount=225

5) Ford C.O.E. Trucks - 1941.
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6506908&postcount=226

6)Autocar C.O.E. Trucks - 1948
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6506917&postcount=227

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that is sick!...hope it gets built....johnny

 

This yr should have had the 270 in it -97 hp. The 302 was 150 hp and the one people still want in the old small GMC 6 cyl series

 

My Dad's 1951 White back in the 80's