Rusty Bowtie
General Category => General Discussion - Intros => Topic started by: sammons on December 23, 2015, 04:52:59 PM
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I went out to my local yard to search for some parts for the coupe today, (before the snow flys this weekend). 'Ol Jim the owner had just moved a cab with old Tower(1941). It's one of those old trucks still in use that you just get use to seeing and think nothing of it. He has been using it pretty much daily around here since he opened up the salvage yard in 1966. It's usually chained up, but he said he just broke a link. I asked him what happened to the antique personalized tag he had,(Tower) he said that it fell off somewhere and DMV wouldn't replace it because it had already been issued. ::)
Any body else still have old work horses around? (Or just Sixball) ;D
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That,s downright cool. That is a serious weight on the front of it.
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Several years ago I borrowed a '46 dump truck from a friend. It was a beat up old ranch truck that had a stout later model 292 six in it. It came up my road with a full load of gravel in 3rd gear. I have no idea what it could have done in the other 2 lower gears. He still has it but has not used it i a while. At about the same time I had a 1040 International with a 16' bed. I hauled several loads of lumber from a barn we salvaged in Lodi California over Carson Pass in the Sierras. 45 mph up or down hill. I just sold it a couple of years ago. There are quite a few old trucks on ranches around here. I'll try and get some pictures.
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Ghost he has lifted some heavy stuff with that old truck. I'll go out in the yard looking for him and he will have poles up on Tower with a car or truck dangling straight up on the rear bumper taking out a rear diff or trans. lol
Sixball, people will ask how can that old truck(or equipment) do this or that. I tell them that they were made to work and work well! America was built with trucks.
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My old Firstnational had a 261 overhead six, a two speed axle and a 5 speed transmission. 5th was overdrive. On the flats it would go 65. It came from central California. It had a full set of stock racks and a loading ramp. It had a pintle hitch and vacuum brakes for a stock trailer. I hauled a few horses in it a couple of times and I suppose with all those gears it could have pulled a loaded trailer too. It would have taken a long time to get up to speed. It did very well with 3 tons of hay but had a hard time stopping with a big load of railroad ties. It steered easier than the my '53 or my '68 flatbed. My wife liked driving it. She just didn't like loading and unloading it.
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This is a cute little fella! My buddy came by this morn with another COE. Haha, they went to go pick up a Gremlin ::) and his wife spotted this. So the Gremlin will have to wait for the next trip. The 'ol boy was using it to move logs at his small farm sawmill. Everything works on it and is running on propane. The old business name on the door is too far fadded to read except something "transportation". Straight as all get out and no rust at all that I could see.
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Now that is a cool old truck! What are the plans for it?
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That truck is gorgeous...reminds me of when I was a teenager never thought much for the looks of the 58 Chevy and mostly likely had the same feeling for those COE trucks.
Now I love both of them! ;) ;)
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That would make a great car hauler.
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I like that.
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Tom, he doesn't know yet. A clean up for sure, then checking everything out. He said the guy had it running off his BBQ grill tank. I'm guessing his local Co-op wouldn't refill the original tank untill resertified?
I have just never seen one so short before (except for mobile home movers) Something neat about that little horse shoe shapped bed. I'm going to have to check out the pto winch closer, it has a really cool (massive) 3 chain (gear reduction type) drive, dual spool.
Ed, I used to be the same way. A '58 looked like a '57 got fat, sat in the sun to long and melted the sharp edges down. ::) but they have grown on me since.
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Old trucks are just cool. They were the working class, the ones who really did stuff. There were so many speciality rigs that spark images of thigh jobs being done. They sound like nothing else. They even smell like work. 8) This is a great find. I hope it doesn't get gussied up. ::)
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Wow! :o My buddies Ebay auction just ended, unbeliveable. I guess that makes up (and then some) for the loss on the old cab chassis chevy truck he swapped for that 32 pos ford p.u.
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Wow...some one wanted that COE .....Good deal for your friend
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There was a couple of people who really wanted it, that's what makes an auction, congratulations to him
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At that price it you know it went to a good home unless some hot rodder bought it. You know, blown big block, auto trans, AC, sittin' "in the weeds", something cute painted on the door. ;D
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Sixball, he said that there was a museum bidding on it for a while. One guy called just before the end of the auction and asked what chassis would fit under it well. ::) I just hope it gets a home that will keep it as close to original as possible.
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Me too, it is a rare surviver and that only lasts until until the chassis swappers show up. :( I guess if that really bothers me I should have bought it. ::)
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I ran across this on the local CL. Somebody is gonna like this.......
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/cto/5543274262.html
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Real nice chopper526 but we will pass. NOW having said that if it was a duramax diesel some old fart like myself that towes a trailer for many many many miles that would be another story but a 400 no way vette59jdwl
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That is pretty sharp looking. Thanks for the post.
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My brother is having fires close to him again in Cali, he called it in shortly after 3pm. :o Reminded me that he bought an old firetruck last fall for such things. Picked up an old '56 international, 4x4 with 28,000 miles. It belonged to the Avala Beach fire dept then sold to Lopez Canyon rural. He picked it up off a Craigslist ad. Had gunk in one fuel tank and a hole in the other. Bought it running off a plastic boat tank. He got the truck tuned up and running smooth, tank cleaned but ran outta time to get the pumps up and going. It has a 300 gal water tank, and will suck out of a water source such as a pond, which he has. Has a big filter thing on the hose to keep out trash. I need to figure out a way to get out there sometime and give him a hand on this and his '66 Vette restoration.
1st pic is fire from brothers ranch looking SW. 2nd his son took from Atascadero looking 22 miles NE looking toward my brothers ranch. He said the air tankers quit last night at dark. 2000 acres and growing, just a few miles away this morn. 14 aircraft pilots, 6 chopper pilots, don't know how many aircraft that is?
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Good luck to your brother and we have been complaining about then rain up here..rained all last week and we have rain again this week. Corn fields are flooded...
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Around here we go from lots of snow to lots of dry brush and weeds in a very short time. Fire is my biggest fear here. Closest fire trucks there are about 6 miles away over a rough rocky road that some new comers blocked last October.. A federal judge ordered them to remove the blockage last week. Those trucks are at a unmanned station so it'll take some time for someone to get them going. We have 8500 gallons of water in 4 tanks, two separate systems. One system uses 1 1/2" fire hose one is garden hoses. It won't do it alone but maybe I can hold on until the trucks, planes and choppers get here. I'm working on my pond and two pumps. It's all gravity now. Got to get the bobcat going! At least the tractor is out of the mud. ::) Sammons that is a good looking fire truck.
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Six ball, it's amazing how fast you go from wet to fire dry. Gotta keep some measure of protection around when you are that far out.
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Sixball We have the same weather here. We can get rain one day and the next day the wind blows and we are dry enough for the forest service to post high or very high fire danger. The ground here seems to soak up the moisture and the wind dries out the foliage. I'm also six miles from an unmanned fire station and have a very rough and steep road to my house. I share your concerns as we have heavy forest and we had a forest fire come with in 3 miles of the house 3 years ago. We lucked out when the wind shifted. My biggest concern and fear is fire also.
I only have 5,000 gals. available, 2- 2500gal. tanks. One is right behind the house. Hope I don't have to use it.
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When I was a kid in Texas my dad told me Texas was the most scenic place in the country. From the front yard we could see Oklahoma blow over in the morning and New Mexico blow over at night. We sometimes went to Ruidoso t the horse races. I like that part of the state.
I got my pressure washer working yesterday. It adds a bit to the garden hose system. 8)
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Chevron i'm with you, fire is my biggest fear. Tornadoes, earthquakes, floods tend to leave something salvagable behind...but fire takes all.
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My buddy just picked up a 1958 snub nose Chevy Viking wheat truck out of the Oklahoma panhandle. He's been looking for something for a couple years. It's sweet running, driving, good breaks, no heating issues, all steel bed/floor, and the hoist is smooth and stout. I'm not sure yet if its a 283 or later transplanted 327 2bbl. It does have straight across hole valve covers and provision for side motor mounts.
Then he just picked up another one a guy was going to scrap. Not running but good parts and trim pieces. 283 (no side mount provision) stager hole valve covers, 4bbl 4GC, turns over. I'll probably snag that for my hoard ;)