Bloody beautiful, isn't it??.
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I love old pickup/work trucks. Even though I grew up during the muscle care era in the late 60's, I've always preferred pickup trucks. As a teenager back in the late 60's, all the guys I knew with a new camaro, mustang, or firebird were punk-ass rich kids and Daddy had bought them that awesome car. All the old farmers around me that I admired/respected were MEN and they could actually teach me something useful, give me a job, and they all drove pickup trucks. Maybe they got me to relating driving a pickup truck to becoming a man. In fact, I've just realized I haven't actually owned a car since I got out of the Army 45 years ago, so there may be some validity to that thought....
I stay in touch with some of my oldest friends on Facebook and today I came across a picture of a really nice looking old pickup. When I clicked on it, it took me to a FB page that features nothing but old trucks. I loved it and thought I'd share with some guys on this Forum that seem to love old trucks also. Here's the link and a picture of an unusual truck that is posted on that FB page as a teaser to the rest of the content and it's something you don't see every day. I wonder if that 1929 Colorado "Special Permit" has expired.....
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1929 Model A Concrete Mixer Truck
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I stay in touch with some of my oldest friends on Facebook and today I came across a picture of a really nice looking old pickup. When I clicked on it, it took me to a FB page that features nothing but old trucks. I loved it and thought I'd share with some guys on this Forum that seem to love old trucks also. Here's the link and a picture of an unusual truck that is posted on that FB page as a teaser to the rest of the content and it's something you don't see every day. I wonder if that 1929 Colorado "Special Permit" has expired.....
FB Old Truck Page
1929 Model A Concrete Mixer Truck
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In the old days, you used to carry a magnet with you when went to look at a vehicle to restore to check for Bondo. Now days, "fake rust" and "fake patina" are a real thing. Here's a prime example of "fake patina". Go to all the trouble of applying body filler to get the body straight, shoot a couple of coats of red oxide primer, and then take a DA sander to it..... Where do guys do this kind of crazy crap? Look no further than the yellow over black tag.....
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I've always heard them called "Jail Bar" Fords, what's the front Grill remind YOU of???
Look Bill... He's "modified" his LF fender to look the same as on your Diamond and he may have also used the roof to strap some really heavy crap because the bed was stacked full of barbed wire/fence post at the time..... Damn window regulator rusted up and it was 95 degrees that day, so to hell with it, what are you gonna do, ruin it???
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Look Bill... He's "modified" his LF fender to look the same as on your Diamond and he may have also used the roof to strap some really heavy crap because the bed was stacked full of barbed wire/fence post at the time..... Damn window regulator rusted up and it was 95 degrees that day, so to hell with it, what are you gonna do, ruin it???
Yep..... Came across a small paperback book years ago at the swap meet portion of an antique power show entitled "The cars of Indiana". Most people aren't aware that at one time (early 1900's) Indiana was considered the epicenter of the US automotive industry, not Detroit. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was originally built as a test track for this very reason. That little book listed over 150 different manufacturers that built "cars" in Indiana at one time. Everybody familiar with vintage cars has heard of Duesenberg, Auburn, Cord, Stutz, Marmon, Studebaker, and many more famous brands that were built in Indiana. This book went further into detail and listed a huge number of small blacksmith/carriage shops that produced "Horseless Carriages" at around the start of the 20th century throughout Indiana. If a Marmon Roadster is worth $100,000 + and they built around 1,500 of them in Indianapolis, what is a 1893 Haynes Pioneer (Hand built in a carriage shop in Kokomo, Indiana) worth when they only built five? Inaugural running of the Indianapolis 500 in 1911 was won by the famous Marmon Wasp, built on the South side of Indianapolis
Hand Built 1893 Haynes Pioneer
1925 Marmon Roadster
1911 Maron Wasp Indianapolis 500 Winner
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