COE COE Picture thread (imported from main board)

lurking

 

I thing RMR&C is right with Ford cab. These trucks were shop built by the trucking companies that hauled cars. If you had a contract to haul Fords, you had better show up with a Ford truck to pull the load. Same with the other companies, even Studebakers got hauled by a Stude truck!

 

Convoy Co. of Portland, Oregon built their own car-hauling rigs using 1952 Ford F8 chassis.



Then they changed to this style still based on Ford F8 with the cab wider




This A good pic of the one in the newspaper ad

 

Thanks for the Convoy details. I had always wondered about those weird looking trucks.

Here's another weird one.

 

Thanks for the Convoy history lesson indeed! Didn't know that!
Hope you don't mind I'd added it on to my blog post!?

http://www.vonskip.com/2013/08/coe.html

Cheers Skip'

 

There is something just so, so wrong
with having a driver have to sleep in
a box underneath the cab floor and
right beside the engine too! No
wonder this set-up never caught on!

Mart3406
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I had an old time trucker tell me that in the early days they also had a box under the trailer for the relief driver to sleep in.

 

Genius! Why didn't I think of that? Lessee, if I move the engine back about
6 feet..................

 

I don't know if this truck is in the thread already, but I would like to see some more pics of it.
Does anybody have some?

 

Cabovers??!! You want Cabovers??!!
How about this 13-part video build
series I foiund on YouTube and posted
in another thread on the HAMB earlier
today! Enjoy!

Mart3406
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"Outrageously Cool '40 Willys
1-ton Cabover Crewcab Dually
Build!"

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=827903&highlight=mart3406
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Thanks, now I'll be up all night watching***** videos! COE*****!

 

actually a f1 to f8 cab are one in the same no difference , i would say they just lowered the cab to put a car above it

 

This one showed up at the local cruise in last week.

 

Diamond T COE

 

Not a COE, but for some reason I just find it really cool... 1) It's a Stude and 2) the tool box that I suspect sticks up thru the bed...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...tem=360729039789&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:3160

 

Doesn't do anything for me, and this is a COE thread! Also because it is referred to repeatedly as She (note the capitol S) am I supposed to believe that this truck is a female God?

 

Hello SwedishEinar,

This photo's I have of the truck you like.
The photo's are from 2009 the truck was for sale.

1953 Chevy COE Custom Truck on 86 chevy 1 ton chassis fore sale on www.classicridesandrods.net $38000,-- 12-02-2009

Greetings Koos

 

That's a '54 GMC COE cab, on that '53 Chevrolet COE. Side hood emblems are from a '49-'52 COE, so who know's what year it really is.

 

Thanks Koos!

Probably the whole front clip is from a Chevy COE 49-52.
Looking good, but i prefer the split windshield.

 

Actually, Late '47-'53 used the split window cab, & that same Chevrolet front clip. That is a good looking truck regardless.

 

this thread is
cool
cool
cool

 

Polson MT museum.

 

Saw this one at LSR this year . Think owner said he was from Corpus Christi , Tx.

 

Too long of a bed IMHO

 

Does anybody know the standard height of a 49 Ford coe,thanks Gaz!

 

Way cool!!!!!!!!!!!