1950 F6 looking for wrecker info
#31
09-24-2009, 07:17 AM
#32
09-24-2009, 07:13 PM
Don't waste your time reading this post. Here's the story: 
I currently have a pair of F1's that came as parts trucks/projects. I also have a 9' script flatbed (needs work).
My uncle, 300 miles away or so, has a pair of '49's-- an F6 (no bed), and F8 (dump box) but have been having trouble getting them home for 3 years now. I've been wanting a big brother to the F1 since day 1. Now I see a Craigslist ad for a '50 F6 w/dump box (Galion) in my home town. Small enough town, I'm surprised I didn't know about it, lol. Anyway, I thought cool, parts! But then I seen it, it was complete, typical body rust, but the engine wasn't stuck. Asking price $400. My yard truck went belly up last year. So I thought if I could just get it running, I could use the F6, and find a wrecker bed, and call it good. Then I got to thinking, it's probably cheaper to buy this one than haul my uncle's trucks home. I'll get those eventually, but now I don't feel pressured, at least until the uncle gives me a deadline, lol. But when it was delivered by the stepfather of the seller, he told me the history of the truck, and how it started as the City of Ely plow truck, then owned by an old timer named Macy, now deceased. Apparently it's helped out a lot of local farmers, so I felt compelled, or guilted, to fix this one up. First need is tires to replace the cracked ones on there now, and ditch the WM's. Everything else is a matter of tearing down, cleaning up, and reassembling. Meanwhile the F1 awaits frame blasting and epoxy, and the Fairlane is in the garage collecting dust, while waiting for work to pick back up.
I currently have a pair of F1's that came as parts trucks/projects. I also have a 9' script flatbed (needs work).
My uncle, 300 miles away or so, has a pair of '49's-- an F6 (no bed), and F8 (dump box) but have been having trouble getting them home for 3 years now. I've been wanting a big brother to the F1 since day 1. Now I see a Craigslist ad for a '50 F6 w/dump box (Galion) in my home town. Small enough town, I'm surprised I didn't know about it, lol. Anyway, I thought cool, parts! But then I seen it, it was complete, typical body rust, but the engine wasn't stuck. Asking price $400. My yard truck went belly up last year. So I thought if I could just get it running, I could use the F6, and find a wrecker bed, and call it good. Then I got to thinking, it's probably cheaper to buy this one than haul my uncle's trucks home. I'll get those eventually, but now I don't feel pressured, at least until the uncle gives me a deadline, lol. But when it was delivered by the stepfather of the seller, he told me the history of the truck, and how it started as the City of Ely plow truck, then owned by an old timer named Macy, now deceased. Apparently it's helped out a lot of local farmers, so I felt compelled, or guilted, to fix this one up. First need is tires to replace the cracked ones on there now, and ditch the WM's. Everything else is a matter of tearing down, cleaning up, and reassembling. Meanwhile the F1 awaits frame blasting and epoxy, and the Fairlane is in the garage collecting dust, while waiting for work to pick back up.
#33
09-24-2009, 07:42 PM
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09-24-2009, 08:18 PM
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09-24-2009, 08:34 PM
#38
11-01-2009, 10:23 AM
Eight hand holes would make the first one a Motor Wheel product, you are correct.
The ones with five hand holes could be Budd, Firestone, or Kelsey Hayes. Early GMCs also had 5 lug x 8" circle, but to my understanding they'd have been hub piloted. There might have been exceptions, so don't hold me to that in concrete. The early Chevies were 10 lug x 7.25" circle and were hub piloted. All ten used in the back, with five used up front with a stiffener plate. Why in the name of corporate accounting GM permitted two entirely different wheel packages on their trucks is beyond me.
And why is it you now call yourself a "new user". Tired of being an old cuss like the rest of us? Stu
The ones with five hand holes could be Budd, Firestone, or Kelsey Hayes. Early GMCs also had 5 lug x 8" circle, but to my understanding they'd have been hub piloted. There might have been exceptions, so don't hold me to that in concrete. The early Chevies were 10 lug x 7.25" circle and were hub piloted. All ten used in the back, with five used up front with a stiffener plate. Why in the name of corporate accounting GM permitted two entirely different wheel packages on their trucks is beyond me.
And why is it you now call yourself a "new user". Tired of being an old cuss like the rest of us? Stu
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#44
10-01-2011, 08:45 AM
An old thread, yep. But today I was supposed to let this F6 go on to it's new owner. However, his hauler is in the shop, and I'm sick as a dog. (where did that saying ever come from?) and so we wait until next weekend. The 1st of Oct. was a frosty one, so I decided to take a pic of it as it waits.
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10-01-2011, 01:15 PM