COE COE Picture thread (imported from main board)

Thought I would post this on here, for the guys who do not visit the COE social forum site.




You know what its like guys, I've reached a point where I seem to have lost a little momentum to get it fully completed. So looking on here might just kick start the engine in me again. Lol

 

You've done so much and it looks and sounds great!
Com'on,*****on it up, it's so close now!

 

I don't do small block chevies and I don't do****mins,(es) I'm just a crazy******** with a freaken' Detroit!

 

Yeah Baby!!
Now we're talkin

 

More of the LSRU 2015; these are from the Meatheads kickoff BBQ event on Thursday.

 

Found this on MSN this morning....

 

Seen on Facebook. Credit to the owner. Looks nice

 

just found this the past weekend and am in the process of purchasing it for a customer of mine
1937 autocar i believe

 

telephone pole highway trailer company box

 

its a 43 -0r 44 canvas top GMC afkwx-352 the open cab coe version of the WW2 Deuce n a half. with twin screws in back
I got grill bars/ and the top logo panel for it and am working on a lower chin panel right now.
mine were both ww2 army trucks the second was a afkx-353--the only 4x4 gmc there was
I got f-glass fenders and a whole smooth nose without the side doors happening soon ~ and also cannonball style lights

 

so--post a few pics of it! -is it the chevy /gmc 1581 cab or the gmc only cab?

 

Saw this in a shop in norco ca.

 

Looks like American Force 19.5 Independence wheels have the correct triangle hole appearance ..like the 30's 40's chevy gmc 8 hole wheels.

 

Just found this link on the latest Hot Rod Hotline Newsletter.
He does seem to lose the plot towards the end of the photos though.
http://www.hotrodhotline.com/snub-n...um=email&utm_campaign=HRHLNewsletterMay212015

 

"""What could be cooler than arriving at a hot rod show with your Deuce Coupe on the back of a custom-built snub-nosed truck?"""

Like this?

 

A proud daddy ! Hi Gary , Blue

 

Well said Gary.
Still think you shouldn't have sold it !!!

Bill

 

Yeah beats me too !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Swing, and a miss!!-MIKE

 

Yikes! WTH is that???

 

Looks like a 41-47 Dodge cab, v-dub front fenders and very little artistic ability.

 

looks like a regular cab turned COE..... sort of....

 

Maybe he was a frustrated designer at Convoy Transport and decided try to replicate the concept similar to these using a 40s Dodge cab. Might even have a sleeper bunk in it too.

In the ’50s and ’60s, Convoy Transport Co. ran many of these shop-built custom carriers. These units employed a conventional cab, but mounted high atop the engine house, liberating many feet of cargo space. Windows in what would be the cab’s firewall bring to mind the International Sightliner.

Here’s a period clipping from a workbench magazine that goes into more detail on the Convoy mid-engine rigs. Drivers tagged the oddly-placed sleeper arrangement “the coffin,” an MCG reader and veteran trucker reports.

 

Yes

 

could have been worse like this dodge prototype

 

A lot of these goofy looking prototypes were the auto haulers trying to work around very restrictive length laws, that were dictated to state and federal government agencies, by the railroads. In the early years of the 20th century, the railroads had free rein in the freight business, other than local cartage to and from the rail station, but by 1950 the trucks had improved to the point that they were viable for both short and medium hauls. The railroad conglomerate saw this as a major threat to their profits and declared wholesale war on the trucking companies abilities to do long haul. My dad was a long haul driver in the 40s-60s and told stories of a string of box cars parked across a marked truck route for days at a time. If you tried to find a way around, the cops would arrest you for not being on the truck route. They, of course, were in each others pockets.

 

Nice.

 

I gotta agree. While a 4Bt or 6Bt****mins is a good engine, I''ll take a noisy, leaky, cantankerous 2 stroke Detroit any time.

 

To keep it on topic I chose this one. Enjoy!