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Old 01-30-2006, 07:27 PM
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A new album in my gallery called "Two Old Fords" has a photo of a late '40's wrecker on what I believe is an F-5. My brother acquired it when he helped to clean some land south of town.

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those are neat! very little rust! what are your plans for them?
 
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390,

The cab-and-chassis is just one I happened to see and took a photo of, but the wrecker is up for grabs.

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Old 01-31-2006, 01:08 PM
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Very cool That's a nice clean '42-'47 wrecker. Hopefully somebody will give it a good home.
 
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Originally Posted by captradiator
A new album in my gallery called "Two Old Fords" has a photo of a late '40's wrecker on what I believe is an F-5. My brother acquired it when he helped to clean some land south of town.

Johnny
Too Cool ! The "wrecker-body" on the back of it is a "Bomb-sling" from WWII. I wrecked out 10 of them almost 40 years ago ! Didn't think there were any around anymore. Wrecking yards used them around here for years. Nice find. FABMANDELUX.
 
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Originally Posted by fabmandelux
Too Cool ! The "wrecker-body" on the back of it is a "Bomb-sling" from WWII. I wrecked out 10 of them almost 40 years ago ! Didn't think there were any around anymore. Wrecking yards used them around here for years. Nice find. FABMANDELUX.
fabman, that is a cool little piece of history you provided. Thanks.
Captradiator, if you get a chance shoot a couple more pictures of that 42-47 wrecker.
 
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Old 02-24-2006, 02:13 AM
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46y and fabman,

I'll try to get some more shots this weekend. Hopefully, the local 'weather-guesser' is wrong about it raining all weekend long! A local fellow here has one of these rigs on an old c***y that he still uses as a wrecker. Also, I have seen them used for loading/hauling propane tanks and burial vaults.

Johnny
 
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