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Took these pictures in Council Bluffs Iowa's old Rock Island RR yard, April, 1981.
Pretty Heavy duty for its era at least.

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There's an ATHS member (I assume) who comes to our Tri-State multi-chapter show in Sept. I don't think he lives too far... I hope. I'd say he thinks trucks are beautiful. He seems to buy them of any and all sorts. I have no idea how many he has, but he brings about 40 to the show. I'm serious. Probably takes a week to get them all there. He has some you wonder why he wanted them and others I'd sure like to have

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The Fire truck, reminds me of a rig I drove around the country hauling a long trailer with 2 F-1 Tunnelboats. Originally built for custom car builder, Boyd Coddington.

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Not that old but it's not every day you
see a school bus with a snow plow on it.
North Penn School district Montgomery County, Pa.

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First time for me. I've never seen one before. But, being 2-Wheel Drive, I wonder what they use for weight? The nice thing about a Dump is that you can load it with sand, then just dump it off when the plowing is done. Can't use the kids, they stay home on a snow day, lol.

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Makes it's own parking space!!!

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^^^When were those pictures of that truck taken, Mountie?

Tim, thanks for postin those picks, love the last one in white.

GM72K10, I love vintage photos, and those don't look bad at all for being from 1981! Really cool, wonder what ever happened to that truck...

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Jumpsoffrock... " ^^^When were those pictures of that truck taken, Mountie? ""

Orange County, around mid '90's.
I drove that rig all around the country & Canada. The truck wasn't designed to be a cross-country rig, so going down long grades or up inclines was sorta dangerous. No jake brakes & a 2-speed axle, with just a 6.9 Detroit Diesel.

....Pretty, though......

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So it was just slow on the inclines?

That truck was very nice. If you every find a picture of the inside of that things sleeper, I'd love to see it, man it must be like a suite in there!

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Truck slow? Well, it was OK... not lot's of HP, but it cruised nice.
It struggled up hills..... you just worked with what limited power you had.
After this multi-year "learning experience", ... I started driving nice semi-trucks after that. ( pro-roadracing).... LOVED the big rigs!!

These pics shows before it was repainted.... Only one pic showing the right side of the RV cab. Other pic as it was parked at my house.
The 'RV' sleeper-box was like a standard " travel trailer" design. ( Inc. a shower/ bathroom)...

The trailer had a double-decker set-up for 2 F1-Tunnel boats, and a Suzuki Samari fitted up foward, to launch boats.

When I went from So Cal to Fenton Missouri, to get new boats, I used this Dually. ( Photo, in snow.... Flagstaff, Az. ) MUCH more enjoyable to drive.
Interestingly enough, the Dually had a 350 cid.

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Back to " Trucks Are Beautiful"......

I was in Lake Havasu painting a nice house in about 1987 ish. The homeowner then requested me to paint his old flat bed truck.... Painted it blue.... Painted it like a cabinet.

Brush -n- roll.... Funny...... I don't remember what truck it was. ( A Ford but don't know year / model )

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That's a '56 COE, probably a F500 or 600.

Funny how much 1-ton trucks have changed, back then they were cheaper, but slower. Today you have no choice but a $10k diesel. But they're much faster...

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The COEs from that era are so cool looking, being the same style truck just reconfigured a little bit :rolleyes:. That ain't nuffin but a big ole '56 Effie*. Probably had a "Big Job" emblem, another cool thing from the era.

I guess the COE pickup jobs are kinda neat and all that. But give me one that hasn't been castrated from actually being useful. You know, like this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j...57747605610442
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* C-series for those who want to get technical :cool:

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Good looking Ford there.

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Thinking back...... about late '80's or early '90's, I was at a paint shop where NHRA -John Force had a similar truck built. I'll see if I can find it.

A-Ha..... Found it..... I saw it first in the "before stage"..... never saw it finished.

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Pretty neat. We have a business known as Rudy's Welding & Cold Beer. Yep, a welding shop west of town that sells beer. I used to live where that was the first "services" I'd hit on the way into town. It's in it's third generation now, but the son of the original owner was a street rodder... still is. Way back when in the early '80s he had built a slick ramp truck from a 39/40 COE that was white with flames. I wish I ever took a picture of that.

How's this for a shiny log hauler?

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Purdy rig^^^^

Love the Seminole paint scheme!

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Me too. Classic!

Cabovers are good for keeping overall length down :cool:

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Oh, my...... what a wheel base !!!

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Definitely not built for slalom! Probably the best riding Cabover, though. Not that you aren't still sitting over the front axle.

I saw this beautiful truck here:
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End up here on Monday morning:

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More pictures. Fresh truck fresh out of the sign shop:

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No damage to paint. Truck was empty or it would have laid over and took out a utility pole. As it was, the right turn out stack clipped the pole:

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Since we are on the COE train. This International is listed locally. One of the "So homely it is cute" crowd.

https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/...873419262.html

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Cool. Those IH tall cab COEs certainly were funky cool.

How about this International. Different
http://inventory.chicagocarclub.com/...4700-crew-cab#

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79 F700 with a 5+2. wow it was only 4 years old then. We worked in the Texas desert (1983). You improvise when you don't have a ladder or a boom truck.

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.......... And that's a high powerline???? ......the good 'ol days for sure!!

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Telephone Cable, we were removing it

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It looked like telephone...... Was kidding.....

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From here that looks like a Henkles & McCoy truck.

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Speaking of Henkles & McCoy and beautiful trucks

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Nice looking fuel tanks

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I had my Peterbilt detailed.

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Oh, my......

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ATHS had their 2019 Convention and Truck Show at the GSR in Reno today, lot of nice trucks.

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More!

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Great pics! Thanks for sharing.

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Sometimes some color looks better than chrome/polished stainless. Helps set off the rest of the brightwork better.
Time for a show before letting it go. Now yours looks best with the polished tank. I see plenty of red and it's a lowboy equipment hauler. Gotta look sharp hauling those yellow dirt machines.
Thanks for sharing the pictures. I wish I could get to one of the national shows out west. One day I will. It sucks they have them on Memorial Day... as far as competing with family stuff. ATCA has their national show in Macungie, PA, a few hours away. I'll be catching that. It's Fathers Day weekend.

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Oh look at all the green trucks!!!! :metal::metal::metal::metal:

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Spotted these beauties this last weekend my town had their annual celebration and this old GMC 6500 from the 70's? still putting in a hard days work as my town's main pumper she still looks beautiful after all these years later. it's a Smeal pumper with supposedly a F**d running the pump. We have a Kenworth pumper that's about 7 years old but they don't take it out to every fire or accident and, our main attack truck originally ordered by the Nebraska Public Power District got a new career about 20 years ago as our main pumper a 1989 Chevrolet Cheyenne crew cab with a 4 speed with od and cruise and 4x4.:gmc2::chevy:

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Was in Penticton, BC for a car show with my Monte Carlo and saw these.

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Love that KW!

That green KW in post#1315!! (1st truck) So classy, he nailed it! Nothing extra, not overly fancy, a great classic example done with great taste. My new favorite.

Here is a close second from the ATHS National Show in York, PA '15. I got to talk to the owner while he waited to register. He had just completed it, ground-up every nut and bolt. I think he ran from Kansas to the show