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That's an amazing truck. Someone spent some money on design work for that. I wonder if it was a bread-and-butter job for a known customizer? |
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It would seem to have some relation to this ambulance, or not.
Scroll about 20% of the way down the page. https://myntransportblog.com/tag/chevrolet/ |
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And just for fun I added a shot of my wife and son with our Windstar out on the Salt flats. If you ever have the chance go out onto the salt flats (you pass right by the entrance on driving through Utah on hwy 80) DO IT!
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This looks like a close relative to the Craftsman truck. The windows and the body-length lower chrome really seem to match. Is that a for sale sign in the front window?? https://myntransportblog.files.wordp...-ambulance.jpg I would invite everyone who likes unique vehicles to look through the site linked by HO455. The "Amublances and Hearses" section has very interesting photos almost worth their own thread: https://myntransportblog.files.wordp...van-hearse.jpg And of course, there are other AD and TF trucks to be found there: https://myntransportblog.files.wordp...liet.jpg?w=768 https://myntransportblog.files.wordp...et-3.jpg?w=768 https://myntransportblog.files.wordp...agen.jpg?w=768 https://myntransportblog.files.wordp...hevrolet-t.jpg https://myntransportblog.files.wordp...-ptt.jpg?w=768 https://myntransportblog.files.wordp...spar.jpg?w=768 https://myntransportblog.files.wordp...t-trucks-2.jpg |
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Wow, good stuff!
I just ran across this one. Brian |
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Almost as cool as me!
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Good stuff Miracle Pie!
How about this little oddie. Just your average day at the gas station. Brian https://scontent.fboi1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...2d&oe=5EC28727 |
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I'd wager the guy in the suit and tie is Harry.
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nah he looks like one of the circus clowns !!!
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I feel sorry for the elephants. In those days no one thought about them being wild animals and gave them their due. treated them like toys for our amusement.
The guy staying next to them has a stick with a spike in it he likely used to push them around. Then people were shocked when one of them squished a handler like a grape. |
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This is one of the best of the best for us AD guys, how cool is this one! I am posting both the URL from facebook and uploaded it because I have been told not everyone can see the Facebook ones I have been posting.
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Any of those would be great in my driveway!
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Neat pic. I want that BelAir.
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Well if that’s not in front of the Van Nuys assembly plant I would be surprised.
The plant was built after World War Two and torn down in the 90’s after the last 3rd gen Camero and Firebirds rolled off the line . I went to the 50th anniversary of Chevrolet in 1962 when they were building full size passenger cars and in 1990 durning the Camero run . Today the land is a major shopping mall. The next gen Camero Firebird was produced in Canada |
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I visited Framingham when the pride of the plant was the Celebrity or Citation (can't quite remember). I saw a door on an overhead conveyor stop and other doors piling up into it an thought "that's strange." About 10-15 minutes later lotsa buzzers then everything shut down, and the line didn't move again for the rest of the tour. Musta been lunch?
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MARTIN SR, regarding that truck and trailer loaded with new cars. If there wasn't a car on top of the truck, the trucks front wheels would be off the ground. The truck fifth wheel looks like its behind the truck rear axle. Quite a rig.
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I wonder if that 5th wheel slides and it is shown in the most rearward location for loading and unloading. It certainly doesn't look like either one of the end cars on the trailer could be driven under the middle car. Maybe the 5th wheel was moved back, and the truck was jackknifed and then cars were driven on from both ends of the trailer. Oh the questions that fill my mind.
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Also seems like a lot of weight for a single axle trailer.
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I believe you would have to figure out a moment diagram on the whole set up - calculating the loads and seeing which way things want to pivot on the rear axle centerline. That's a very long wheelbase truck plus you have a car up there at the front as well for "counterweight". I don't think you could bring the 5th wheel much further ahead or you would have the car on the truck and first one on the trail hitting each other. The car at the back would be reducing the weight on the 5th wheel as well. A balancing act for sure.
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This is what happened when you did it with a Ford. :D
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That's a nice grill guard on that wrecker!
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When the upper car is off the tracks tilt out to the sides so the other cars can drive off/on, the truck driver has to lift ramps to get the car over the cab and drive off / on the trailer rear .
Now you know the rest of the story . The Ford auto transporter was the next gen . The driver put ramps out for the lower / upper decks and just drove on/off , much quicker and easier on the driver plus could cary more cars per load. |
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It says this is on the Twilight Zone show.
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Perhaps a relevant theme today? |
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How about this cool one! Brian |
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Terrible photography. Not one license plate to be seen to help figure out where it was taken. :lol:
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imagine the exhaust and co fumes in that tunnel. cool pic though
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I think the 2 high ones pivot back. I think the one over the truck also raises. To load you pivot the one on the truck back to the trailer and the one in the middle to the back of the trailer. First car drives to the front of the trailer and is pivoted up over the truck. second caar is backed up as far forward as possible. Third car is driven onto the back of the trailer and pivoted up and forward then the last car is loaded. The rear of the trailer may dove tail down. Maybe. |
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Neat story posted with it. |
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