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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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Thanks for posting this photo special K. It's hard to believe how modern looking the Ford pickup looked in the late 50's compared to GM, Dodge, IH etc.
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Nice long bed...... Probably one of those great straight 6's under the hood,... that you can safely slam shut !!
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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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ATHS had their 2019 Convention and Truck Show at the GSR in Reno today, lot of nice trucks.
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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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that schoolbus is intersting , never knew they allso used the breadtruck type boxvan as a base for them
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i got a job again and having fun at it too idea's for the trucks and the order of things to do are taking shape and get closer to being realized , a few more months and i be able to start building for real i complete 2 of the trucks intoo running fashion one custom and one basicly stock the thirth will be sacrificed for parts |
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41 Ford COE
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Great truck and even great old truck in use photo. I don't see lift bodies used these days. Do they even use then at airports anymore?
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I wonder what those 3 holes are for above the bumper??
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Let more air in to cool that 534 V8 and to give that bull nasty nostrils
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This is a great thread, most of us really appreciate all makes of trucks and any history that goes along with it. Here's more of those classic heavy Fords, these are '58's.
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I'm GM all the way, but always appreciated those big Fords. From about '48 on starting with the F-8's.
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I drove semi's for motor racing teams...... All the best stuff with all the bells..
But I officially got my license through a truck school. Instructor was a Jet Propulsion Lab tech, with a truck hobby.... I learned with a late '70's International Harvester. If you can shift smoothly in that truck, ANY new truck is a Cadillac !! There is nothing like learning the hard way to gain technique !! I also know how to "Walk a Trailer"......
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![]() What do folks think about the Cat trucks? I'm slow to change, but I like them alright now. For a truck only from these modern times they ain't so bad... especially a Cat Yellow construction truck. The have to tradition behind them, so they have no "classic" style like Pacars
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CAT has a clean style...... ( obviously a good engine)...
I've driven Frieghtliners ( lease from Penske / they custom paint the tractor if you have a long lease)..... Kenworths ( one was a private own... had a built engine - fast as Hell)... Volvo 770 w/ a leather condo - nice like a motorhome..... But the truck that seemed to fit my 'style' of driving was a MAC.... Easy to drive.
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What year was the Mack? I live in Mack Country, with Macungie, PA being a few hours away and we had a plant in Hagerstown, MD. That plant is now Volvo, who now owns Mack (hard to believe). What's really hard to believe is the no longer have Mack engines, all Volvo. I have a lot of respect for Volvo Truck on the worldwide scale. I'm glad they saved Mack, if that was the problem. And I know the technological demands that are placed on heavy truck mfgrs is putting great financial pressure on them. I think that might be what the whole Mack/Volvo thing is all about. Cat had to drop their big motor over all that. I had heard they stopped doing engines, but recently found out it was just the big Cay everyone love. I thought it was ironic they'd halt engine production right when the started their own line of trucks. Heck, Paccar started building their own engines about the same time. a lot of changes going on in big trucks these day. Makes me love a lot more of the simpler older trucks now. A lot of independents are running old pushers to stay with the simpler easier to keep going engines, just when they seemed to drop of the edge of the planet.
Speaking of pushers, have I shown these old Reos before? Does the horizontal part of that grille look familiar to you all?
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(REO),,,,,, A retro look......
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A rig I saw yesterday..... A little newer set up....
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