Features Pictures of Old SCTA Push Trucks

Really starting to love early 60's ford trucks. I would love have one with a push pad for my daily driver.

 

Not a SCTA Push Truck but used on a road course since the 60s at Blackhawk farms in Illinois , 1964 Chevy


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Anyone have a speed on Beatty's truck, rumored or timed??
And...whereinhell did I see a picture of a 3-car string, '51 Chevy pushing a 29 roadster pushing a streamliner, goal being to get the strealiner up to a runnable speed??

 

Heres one of Karl Orr's trucks. Not a very good one, but I'd venture to say this may have pushed a few off the start line. Anyone have pictures of his other ones?

 

Here's a picture of our roadster in 1954 -- with a couple of obscured trucks and even a woody.

 

All I see is a great pair of legs!!

 

GM trucks were doing real work like hauling junk Fords to the scrap yard

 

This is one of the best Bonneville shots I have seen.It is very cool to see this exact truck being built at the shop.It would be even cooler to get the truck and the coupe out on the salt and recreate this picture,once the truck is finished of coarse.

 

Here's a Salt Flats assist truck that is not a Ford.


http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/UU_Photo_Archives/id/24291/rec/210

This is a Diamond T model 201 assisting Ab Jenkins and the Mormon Meteor II. The logo on the door indicates this truck was on loan from the Diamond T dealership in Salt lake City. OJ Wilkinson owned the Diamond T dealership and the Auburn, Cord Duesenberg dealership.The Mormon Meteor II was built by one of the Duesenberg brothers, but no longer used a Duesenberg engine as the original Mormon Meteor. If you browse the Utah photo archives where I found this photo, there are several photos of Mr. Wilkinson and Ab Jenkins together as well as Jenkins running Aurburns and Cords on the flats.

The best part... I just found one of the Diamond T 201s from this dealership. It was used by a tire dealer in Salt Lake City and then retired to a ranch and an obscure, remote desert town where it resided since 1964. We found it still wearing 1964 tags and traces of the old lettering. We're just knocking the dust off to see what else we found.

 

I saw Sumner's truck in an earlier post and someone wanted to know who it belonged to. We used his truck to push the Studebaker the first few years we ran on the salt. He has driven this truck many thousands of miles. It is currently resting in southern Utah, awaiting another reubuild. Here is a link to his site and the build of the truck. http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/underconstruction/underconstructionindex.html

John

 

Never actually pushed anything with this one, but definitely would have. That's kinda what I had in mind while building it.

 

Not SCTA I know, But still a push truck.

 

Found this photo in the Utah archives when researching my Salt Lake Diamond T.

 

Another photo from the same source.

 

This pre-dates SCTA

 

I found an original book written by Ab Jenkins that describes 13-mile straight line made of black diesel oil.

 

This Dodge panel was on the salt the same time as the Diamond T pickup in my photo essay http://imageevent.com/shaggy/lsrdiamondt

 

I have one of those ... somewhere.

 

Here's the old F-1 that Kenz & Leslie used. It's the daily driver of Pete Stringer(Pete'sJunk). Pete still has the original metal signs for the sideboards.

 

subscribed, cool shots!

 

Here's another shot of the Dodge pushing the striping machine.

 

Definitely subscribing!

 

Pretty sure that COE with the camera tripod on it is a Diamond T from the Wilkinson dealership in Salt Lake City.

 

Most of these predate SCTA and are exclusively Bonneville

 

I used to have a photo of an AD Chev push truck on salt...honestly I did.

 

Man, I can't stop looking at these pictures. I am amazed at all you guys pulling this stuff out for us to see. Thank you!

 

Any from the later sixties?

 

Nice thread ..... anybody got some pics of fridges on the salt???