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I've been known to take pics of fords now and then like this one, got this one couple days ago here in Grand Junction Colo.
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I feel so bad for this Diamond T, its like it was a living thing and deserves better than this. Guess I'll try to get more info on it, its 500 miles away.
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Cool stuff. That Diamond T looks molested and abused. Clean little fuel truck. Ever see a Super T conversion? Heavy duty baby :metal:
Attachment 1770428 Attachment 1770429 Attachment 1770430 Attachment 1770431 We talked to the old timer who owned this fancy little T with a platter. He's got all the gee gaws and doo dads on that thing |
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I've never heard of a super T and that's a cool radiator.
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Like seeing the different lives these trucks have had.
And the pull trailer from this Cano truck is behind the Scaffer truck now. |
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Always great to see that truck again.
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Awesome pair
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Check out this Fleet in the Northern part of the lower Peninsula of Michigan. Cool...
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Very cool.
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Went through Cortez Colo couple weeks ago and found a few interesting things to look at, heres the first one. Got to use the wife to show scale.
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That's a big oaf...of a truck for sure.
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I go by this Acar couple times a year, hasn't turned a wheel in 25 to 30 years. If I couldn't have the truck I'd like to have the trailer to restore back to Coors lettering. I remember when I was a little kid there would be 6 or 8 of these trailers being pulled with narrow nose petes go past our house every day headed for LA, a never ending stream of them day and night. I would stand there starring at them until they were out of site.
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A few more.
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That thing is all set up. Have you ever looked into what they want for it? That sure is a fine trailer with it.
I need to get a picture of the Autocar sleeper cab wrecker at the local junkyard/towing shop. They ran it for years. I've heard it's got a good bit of rust. But hey, that's restoration! The owner died in the past year or more and now his wife has gone with him. The son is lazy and never much good...if I were to pass judgement :cool:. I have been wondering what will happen to this icon...truck as well as the junk yard amd tow company I have always relied on |
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Some trucks I've driven...
The Top Kick conversion, was all custom aluminum- built ( wasn't a kit / fab company for this type build yet).. >> Note the hand made fender flares The Older Top Kick with the RV box, was originally built for Boyd Coddington, then we hauled 2 F1 - Tunnelboats inside ( Sherwin Williams was the sponsor). |
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I like the toterhome.
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All during my round trip starting from Southern California, I heard a slight "knocking sound" from time to time.... Well, as I started down the grade, at about 25 MPH, THE ENGINE THREW A ROD THROUGH THE BLOCK. Guess what? Air brakes.... I had ZERO brakes!!! I quickly drove against the right-hand side cement wall, and scrubbed the right - front tire against the wall( carefully).... and rubbed the tire for about 50 yards... Finally coming to a stop. ( The whole 72 foot long rig was no more than 6 inches away from the wall. Needless to say, The famed tow company towed me into North Vancouver to get the Detroit Diesel 6.9 replaced. |
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Whoa Nelly! Good thing the truck AND YOU survived that one.
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Glad to see you got it stopped like you did and it is strange on how you lost your Brakes too like that, but I wondering what exactly is a "Detroit Diesel 6.9"? Google did not help, lol.
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Air brakes.... When you throw a rod through the block, you loose air for the brakes. I had no alternative brakes ( no jake brake, or elec. drive shaft brakes.).... On the steep grade, I was using the air supply to keep at 25mph, and a sudden loss of pressure to replenish the air tank.....bad things happen!! Whatever the engine was in that thing...... It's been a long time... Whatever factory diesel was in that Chevy C-70 ( A 4-53T ? ) .... I believe it was a 6. liter- something... I was towed to a Detroit Diesel shop in N. Vancouver, Canada. |
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Sounds like your truck didn't have Maxi-Brakes or Spring Brakes as some will call it. Maxi-Brakes are a reverse process emergency brake. It's the button on the dash that gets pulled to activate the air pressure emergency brake when parked. The safety factor is that you need pressure to release it and take off the pressure to activate it. When you lose Air Pressure while driving, it is supposed to automatically stop the truck.
Although, luckily, I never got to ever experience that on my '71 9500 that had them. My old '62 6500 also had Air Brakes but no Maxi though. I always had plans on what to do if I lost pressure (Hit that almost use-less Hand Brake and start Downshifting, lol). But it was a Gas engine which would help it to stop better in comparison. But luckily again, I never lost pressure in that truck, on a normal road anyway. Had one scare though. A full load of about 20,000 going down a steep hill. The Buzzer kicked on and I started to panic a little, but made it to the bottom OK. |
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This truck was configured to only haul Boyd Coddington hot rods around southern California.... It was never an OTR rig, but we used it as one.
Oddly enough, after my fiasco in Vancouver, I had to drive to St. Louis ( Fenton / Merrimack River ) for the next race. I was forced to drive in heavy rain the entire trip from Seattle. Guess what?... The rain I drove in, flooded the river, up to the top of the boat launch, canceling that race. Go figure... ( Note the river level behind truck) ( One of 2 boats in trailer - photo from Saskatoon race) The brakes were minimal at best. I learned a lesson... After my return to California, they sold it and bought a Kenworth semi-rig. ( I have a Class-A) ( They finally listened to me ) :banghead: |
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Nice little hobby :cool:. I'll take a stab and say it might have been an 8.2 Detroit.
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This isn't a 'big truck'... But it was modified to haul this play toy.
( It had a 'saddle fuel tank' to go long distances) Very fun to drive. |
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I like it. It's a Li'l Heavy Hauler. Love those chrome Budds. Those were on trucks all over the place in CA in the '70s. Now you can't find a used set...or one. At least I couldn't find one I needed.
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I always liked Whites as well, like in the first picture. Only I could never understand why the Long Nose was a White 4000 and the Short Nose was a White 9000. They also may have had a Medium Nose, not sure.
I drove a '69 or '70 White once with a 220 Cummins and a 10-Speed Road Ranger. And no Power Steering. It steered quite well actually and was a pretty like-able truck. |
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Yeah, White is one of those companies that was just around... like always. Just another fleet truck you saw all over the place driven by company drivers. But then you saw ones that stood out and made you realize they are (were) a real truck company. They made many innovations for the industry and in many ways were the core of truck development through the years... in the broadest sense. They also come to mind most when it comes to mergers, by-outs, and being bought out. Many truck brands fell under the White name and I see it as them keeping those companies alive more than buying out the competition to kill it, as we see today.
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A couple low rider pictures
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That last one is pretty cool .
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Saw this Monday, drove for them back in the day.
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