Saturday, February 26, 2011

Model A's may be the most versatile vehicle ever made, nothing else was a delivery truck, railcar, firetruck, racecar... infinite variety





I'm thrown... Never seen a cross between a conestoga and a Ford

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Old fashioned fuel tankers from the 50's or so... when they had good looking designs

The fairing from the cab that goes to the back of the rear tires is good for aerodynamics, and good for a couple more miles per gallon, but really makes a semi look good

This photographer was taken with this tanker... why else would he take photos of the front and back?

Friday, December 17, 2010

Caradisiac... lots of interesting trucks to find there


This looks like something from the 1910's or 20's that had a crane mounted on the back decades after the truck was made

WW2 military Dodge Power Wagon that was made into a fire company auxillary vehicle

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Cool streamlined fuel tankers from the Ken Goudy truck photo collection



See many galleries of cool old trucks and semis at http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/kg_tankers.htm

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Bob McDorman Collection is going to be auctioned at Mecum, Nov 5th and 6th, no reserve


1927 Chevrolet SOHIO Tanker Truck (SOHIO =Standard Oil company of Ohio)




1920 Chevrolet SOHIO horse drawn gas wagon


1927 Chevrolet Wrecker 1 Ton



1929 Chevrolet Fire Truck 1 Ton
For the whole collection gallery, as it has "150 Cars including the World's Most Complete Corvette Collection"

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

somewhere on the I-40 in Arizona I photographed these from the freeway


looks like a 4x4 stagecoach in the background

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Blue collar job, orange color trucks


For the full gallery of Orange County Flood Control work trucks see: http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/2010/march/the-melin-collection-orange-in-orange-count.html

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Nik (Carros Antigos) sent me a cool photo of a fuel tanker! Thanks Nik!

Check out Nik's blog at: http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/

Monday, June 1, 2009

Diamond T "Doodlebug" fueler tanker truck

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/07/cool-rvs-some-because-they-melded.html was my only example of this cool truck design, unitl now... thanks to Carros Antigos ( Nik )! Thanks Nik! http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/



Via: http://www.smcars.net/forums/work-progress-rendering-animation/30172-texaco-diamond-t-based-streamlined-tanker-1933-a.html

Monday, January 5, 2009

Airflow tanker. Gets my vote for best designed tanker truck ever.

I wish someone would drive one of these into San Diego to some car shows

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Unusual variety of vehicles in recent Shorpy postings

photo from 1920
http://www.shorpy.com/node/4240?size=_original a 1½-ton Republic chassis and body of specific design. The body is 7 feet wide and 22 feet long. The first Ms. America, Margaret Gorman, in a very limited production car by Birmingham, they coated the body in "Fabrikoid" a DuPont material that looks like alligator hide
1921 exposition was the cause to modify this Cleveland motorbike to showcase a milk company
1920 photo of a stolen Hudson

Thursday, December 7, 2006

1938 Dodge Airflow, cool old fuel truck


I was just reading in the Haggerty newsletter (March 2010) about the Ford museum in Dearborn, and how they were looking for one of these fuel tankers, and that they couldn't find one in even halfway decent condition.. they'd all been used to death. So they restored one, or bought one that had been restored, and the museum now has it's fuel tanker and it's one of the few or only vehicles there that isn't in original / as found condition. They are so proud of the original condition vehicles they actually glue paint chips back onto the 999 when they fall off

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