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a sad truck picture
I was down at the local junkyard a couple weeks ago, actually lookng for a bench seat for my '56, when i happened to see in the distance what looked like an old truck.
well...it was the remains of a 56 F600, with the roof crushed down to the door line, and overall just crushed/mashed/mushed. Y-block is still in it as well as the trans. kind of sad to see it in that condition.
so i went back today with a camera, a couple bucks and some hand tools. ended up geting the grill assembly for a reasonable price, which was in great shape, only 1 ding and no rot. i couldn't see much of anything else that was worth saving. Its probably not going anywhere for a little while anyway....
link to PICs:
http://public.fotki.com/heck91426/56f600/56f600/
Mark
well...it was the remains of a 56 F600, with the roof crushed down to the door line, and overall just crushed/mashed/mushed. Y-block is still in it as well as the trans. kind of sad to see it in that condition.
so i went back today with a camera, a couple bucks and some hand tools. ended up geting the grill assembly for a reasonable price, which was in great shape, only 1 ding and no rot. i couldn't see much of anything else that was worth saving. Its probably not going anywhere for a little while anyway....
link to PICs:
http://public.fotki.com/heck91426/56f600/56f600/
Mark
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01-12-2006, 03:44 AM
Its sad..I completely agree. Why do we all think this though? Because it is a "classic" now? Thats my reasoning anyway.
If you see a smashed 87 thunderbird or a smashed 79 monte carlo are you sad? I am not really. They are not "classics." They are just vehicles like we see in salvage yards all the time. We see hundreds (perhaps thousands) of them if we scrounge for parts very often.
They are the vehicles we get parts from to modify our old trucks and keep them on the road. I intend to strip a few, if I ever get caught up on bills in order to modernize my 56. Yes...all of them are sad, but some are able to breath new life into a "classic" or keep the family sedan on the road for a while longer.
If you see a smashed 87 thunderbird or a smashed 79 monte carlo are you sad? I am not really. They are not "classics." They are just vehicles like we see in salvage yards all the time. We see hundreds (perhaps thousands) of them if we scrounge for parts very often.
They are the vehicles we get parts from to modify our old trucks and keep them on the road. I intend to strip a few, if I ever get caught up on bills in order to modernize my 56. Yes...all of them are sad, but some are able to breath new life into a "classic" or keep the family sedan on the road for a while longer.
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01-12-2006, 09:15 PM
The grille looked great. Did you get the gravel pan beneath the grille? It looked good too. The fan shroud looked good as well as other engine stuff. Other mechanical stuff for bigger trucks looked OK but how to connect the parts with the guys who need them?
There is a great old junk yard near me in Central PA that has stuff only older than like 1979. A lot of old trucks. I scrounged there for parts for my '54 but again this is central PA and we get rain, snow, humidity and things rust, badly! Some of there vehicles have sunk into the ground. There are some old Fords that looked to be in pretty good shape when they were put in the yard. But things like the doors have rusted away. Rear fenders that used to be good have rotted away at the bottom as the truck sunk into the ground. Ah, what a shame!
abe
There is a great old junk yard near me in Central PA that has stuff only older than like 1979. A lot of old trucks. I scrounged there for parts for my '54 but again this is central PA and we get rain, snow, humidity and things rust, badly! Some of there vehicles have sunk into the ground. There are some old Fords that looked to be in pretty good shape when they were put in the yard. But things like the doors have rusted away. Rear fenders that used to be good have rotted away at the bottom as the truck sunk into the ground. Ah, what a shame!
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The grille looked great. Did you get the gravel pan beneath the grille? It looked good too. The fan shroud looked good as well as other engine stuff. Other mechanical stuff for bigger trucks looked OK but how to connect the parts with the guys who need them?
There is a great old junk yard near me in Central PA that has stuff only older than like 1979. A lot of old trucks. I scrounged there for parts for my '54 but again this is central PA and we get rain, snow, humidity and things rust, badly! Some of there vehicles have sunk into the ground. There are some old Fords that looked to be in pretty good shape when they were put in the yard. But things like the doors have rusted away. Rear fenders that used to be good have rotted away at the bottom as the truck sunk into the ground. Ah, what a shame!
abe
There is a great old junk yard near me in Central PA that has stuff only older than like 1979. A lot of old trucks. I scrounged there for parts for my '54 but again this is central PA and we get rain, snow, humidity and things rust, badly! Some of there vehicles have sunk into the ground. There are some old Fords that looked to be in pretty good shape when they were put in the yard. But things like the doors have rusted away. Rear fenders that used to be good have rotted away at the bottom as the truck sunk into the ground. Ah, what a shame!
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the radiator and shroud are smashed down , shroud could probably be saved. Air cleaner was mushed, and possibly the carb is broke, but doesnt look too bad. rest of the motor looked OK, and complete, but i didnt pry the hood open too far.
i thought about the gravel pan, looked decent, but getting if off could be a problem. the truck was in mud, and the pan is very close to the ground.
the place is Chuck and Eddies in new haven CT. other than this truck, he has nothing else older than early 80's its mostly all late model stuff.
Mark
i thought about the gravel pan, looked decent, but getting if off could be a problem. the truck was in mud, and the pan is very close to the ground.
the place is Chuck and Eddies in new haven CT. other than this truck, he has nothing else older than early 80's its mostly all late model stuff.
Mark
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01-13-2006, 08:12 AM
The truck reminds me of a '49 F-6 I bought a few years back. Sheet metal was in pretty good shape except for the roof, it wasn't nearly as bad and the '56. The truck came out of Colorado and had a long boom on the back. I assume while someone was pulling something up with the boom the cable or hook must have left go and the boom flipped forward and put a 12" gash in the center of the roof.
The nice thing about the truck is it had a nice floor which I cut out to use in my panel. It was the perfect canidate to chop the floor out of, I would not want to do it to a nice cab. I am also saving the front clip for a spare for my F-2. Some of the parts made their way into Irondragon's '52 stretch project. The frame went up to Ontario.
The nice thing about the truck is it had a nice floor which I cut out to use in my panel. It was the perfect canidate to chop the floor out of, I would not want to do it to a nice cab. I am also saving the front clip for a spare for my F-2. Some of the parts made their way into Irondragon's '52 stretch project. The frame went up to Ontario.