COE COE Picture thread (imported from main board)

I need to change the front and rear suspension but not sure of the options yet. I would like to put a box on it and I have sourced a 52 mercury tailgate without the grain chute already. Figured that might be the hardest part to find as I have all the chrome for it. Upgrade the engine and transmission, the flathead just isn't going to cut it , paint, interior...

 

WOW, what a beauty!!!!! Looks like it is in great shape. Keep us posted as to the progress.

 

That really is a nice truck ! And welcome to the HAMB . We COE 'er have a social network look around and join in , will ba looking forward to your build .

 

California Auto Museum - Sacramento. Nice stock resto. Dig the dually rear fenders.

 

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Saw this Chevy at a car show.......very nicely done!

 

That Chevy is short and Sweeeeet! Looks like downtown Bigfork

 

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For sale on the "bay" nice. not digg'in the ford bed and read fenders though.

 

I like this one, but is there anyway to keep wood looking good for more than a short time. One often sees wood trimmed trucks at shows and it seems that after one season the wood starts to look weathered. Here in Wisconsin, it is pretty hard not to get rained on if you drive to shows.

 

Marine Spar Varnish. The same stuff that is used on boats. I normally put 5 to 8 coats on, sanding with 400 grit between coats. My running boards have nearly 50,000 miles and 14 years on my '51 and still look good.

 

Thanks FrozenMerc, I'll give spar varnish a try, maybe the number of coats will make the difference.
Scored this today! (insurance parts) Remember, if it was easy they'd all be doing it. LOL

 

This add showed up today in Nebraska. I know nothing about the truck.

 

Well..... I do gotta say that I've certainly never seen another like it!


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Gawd, that's AWFUL. In what way is that thing traditional?

 

Looks like someone found a another way to waste perfectly good sheet metal.

 

Nice Going wesssay. You just had to post a pic that is going to get a very awesome thread that has been going for 179 pages shut down. Smooooth.

Here is a few pics to get this back on track.

 

Ah yes, the H model Ford aka "two story falcon"

 

Rare Ford COE Twin Engine

Persistence has paid off in solving the mystic behind this mid 40's FORD COE TWIN ENGINE---
This is perhaps one of the rarest examples of Ford ingenuity in existence today -- for a fact it is the only one. Here is it's story quoted from another web page.
"As the fires of war engulfed much of the globe in the mid-to-late thirties, the free world that still existed turned to the United States for help. American factories began to reap the profits from that foreign war. As the firestorms of war engulfed more and more of the globe, it became evident to many in the U.S. that we must prepare to defend our way of life. The problem was that all of the possible aircraft plants in the U.S. had contracted all of the production that they could possibly handle to the British and others.

It was at this point that the federal government turned to Henry Ford with the question, "Can you build aircraft (bombers) the same way as you have built cars?" Mr. Ford replied, "I suppose, Let’s take a look," At this point Mr. Ford along with a group of company officials went to San Diego, California to look at Consolidated Aircraft’s B-24 Bomber****embly line and designs. From this visit and others the famous Willow Run plant and its production came into being. The main point with which we are concerned is that Lloyd Lawson of the E &L Transport Company was in the group to look into providing transportation of the components which would be produced at Willow Run Ill. The components of the bombers would be shipped to San Diego Ca., Fort Worth, Texas, and Oklahoma City Okla. where plant space was available.

Lloyd Lawson returned to E&L Transport Company in Dearborn, Michigan. The company designed the twin engine Ford truck tractors, using 2-100 horse powered Ford truck engines driving 4-speed Warner transmissions and Timken differentials. Each engine had it's own, ignition switch, gauges, radiator, Transmission drive shaft and rear end. This was basically two-one and a half ton trucks in one chassis using standard off-the-shelf cabover engine Ford truck parts. Some parts were modified, but all were Ford. The drawing board and blue prints consisted of the plans being drawn on the concrete floor with soap stone. The engineers consisted of the men working in the shop. The total production number of these vehicles was 96 to 98. About one half of these vehicles had the rounded cab as does #50. The other trucks were designed with the more square cab."

"According to the caption for this June 17, 1942, photo, this is simply a “Ford truck to haul bomber parts,” but our friend Fred Crismon, author of “U.S. Military Wheeled Vehicles,” has more:

Early in 1943 [which clashes with the date of the above photo -ed.] this highly specialized vehicle was shown to the public, identified as a tractor designed to pull a 60-foot-long “supertrailer” in which 34 complete tail cone****emblies could be carried. The tail cones were for the B-24 bomber of which Ford was one of several builders. The****emblies were carried between several manufacturing plants according to contemporary sources, invluding runs between California and Texas, Willow Run, Michigan, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, Texas, and between Loudonville, Ohio, and Buffalo, New York. Two Mercury V-8s were used, driving into synchronized transmissions.

Crismon also noted that the tractor was rated at 10 tons and that the trailer was loaded from the top by overhead cranes. About 70 of the trucks were built, and the twin engines were accessed by pulling them as a unit out the front of the tractor. Crismon provides evidence that, although Ford was often mentioned as the builder of the trucks, a company named Thorco Dual Motors built them – Thorco being a trademark for the Thornton Acle Company. However, James Wagner, the author of “Ford Trucks Since 1905,” wrote that about 100 tractors were built by E and L Transport of Dearborn, and the corresponding trailers were built by Mechanical Handling Systems."
source: HEMMINGS AUTO BLOG and THE OLD TRUCK HOME

 

Great history HJ. I love the history from the "home front".

 

There were several different styles of these trucks. The war produced an "anything is possible" attitude and these are just one example of using parts you had available to "make do" on a grand scale. Good, good stuff, I wish we could go back!

 

How does this get the picture thread shut down it is no less traditional than half the other pics on this forum. Putting a pickup bed behind a coe and or some crazy looking camper or a big rig conversion is in my eyes not traditional. None of these trucks ever had such when they first rolled off the****embly line they were intended as work trucks that would be traditional if you ask me so how is this different ?

 

The difference I see is ratty.

 

Gotta remember this is NOT face book......
that thing sure looks rat roddish, and those type vehicles cause drama.....which WILL get this thread shut down.
Sure there are other OT trucks on here, but let's try to keep this thread alive!

 

Can never get enuff of these picts! Keep it up...

 

And now back to our regular scheduled channel.......

Saw this one at Spokane GG. Kind of a cranky dude, sorry if you are a HAMBer, but take some happy pills before you go to a show man....





Could not get a pic of the front of this in progress crewcab, due to all the gawkers looking at the****mins stuffed under the hood.



This one always seems to make a showing on one day of the show. Always hauling something cool on the deck.

 

Been looking for one of these "Smash Hit" Grille guards for a long time. Finally found one,