Lokk at the wheel base, now you can have a very short bed truck. This was a TWA Airport Tug Truck. This truck was used to tow planes from the runways to the hangars for inspection.
What you guys think?

 

thats so cool id say a good buy

 

move the front wheels back about a foot and section the front clip about the same.... chop the firewall enough to drop a Big Block Chevy in it, step up to some 37" mud tires and go play in the mud!

I like it!

 

IDE cut down a style side bed for the wheel base slam it and put a supercharged 460 in that beast

 

Robert,

Sounds like a very 'creative' story, you sure it wasn't the truck Goldilocks drove the three bears around in?

 

Well Goldilocks you tell me, how's it handle?

 

What are you guys smoking????? I want some.

 

Front sheet metal looks like it's already been shortened.

 

NumbersDummy talks about rolling piles of misery. When I looked in the dictionary for the defintion of rolling piles of misery the picture of whatever that is shows up.

 

How dare you call NumberDummy a "that" he may be a rolling pile, but that's as far as I'd go.

 

Most every large Airport has a few of these running around... they are pretty common actually. Ugly but common!

these truck were rarely ever used to tow Aircraft,unless they are very small, Mostly used for luggage cart hauling.... the Tugs for the medium to large Aircraft weigh 20-30 tons and up.... and they are usually Electromotive

 

I want to revise what I said about wanting some of whatever it is that you are smoking. After reading this statement I want to stay far away from it.

 

Probably was a ramp truck used as a follow me truck or to move maintance equipment around stands and the like. I spent a few years as aircraft mechanic on the flight line so yes never did I see a truck towing an aircraft large or small. Larger tugs in the USAF were all diesel powered. The medium ones were diesel too but there may have been some electic powered ones but I never did see any where I was stationed probably used more so in civilian world.



Look to the left of the deice truck in the center of the pic and you will see what I have ever seen used in airports for luggage hauling. Not a good pic but I have yet to see trucks hauling luggage at airports. Maybe back in the 60s and 70s maybe. Trucks would be to cumbersome to use for how quick this job has to be done today. Not to say trucks might not be doing this job out at the podunk airport someplace. I think you can see what might be a tow tug just in the bottom corner of the window. You cant see much of it but that looks about the right size for a tow vehical.

A few more of a slick still working the flightline and parking ramps.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Z...4248702366.jpg
This was just a few years ago at the Spokane airport. Probably considered a podunk airport by alot of big city people passing thru. Never have seen a truck of any type towing luggage carts around at this airport.

 

Point is that I think the tug truck story makes NO sense.

I find it hard to believe that a major airport would cut the frame on a new truck and cobble together a wood bed like on this piece of ****.

Maybe at the Hemet Tasty Freeze/International Airport and Tatoo Parlor...but nowhere else!

 

If you pay attention to my Screen name it is pretty obvious that I have been to a great many airports...

I have thousands of hours logged as a Commercial Pilot, and Commercial flight Instructor and have seen a great many of those old chopped trucks at numerous airports around the nation. This is NOT by any means a cobbled together toy... many companies manufacture tugger's around the nation most are used for ramp work ie; towing baggage carts..the RAMP is the area surrounding or adjacent to Terminal Buildings.where the air craft are loaded and unloaded. I would Estimate that just LAX alone, which is the 6th busiest Class Bravo Airport in the World has probably 50 plus different versions of these tuggers running around the ramps at any given time. Most every Major Airline uses them for a myriad of uses... The idea behind the shortened bed is to provide maneuverability around confined and hectic Ramp Spaces. As I stated earlier while it is rare they are on occasion used to tow smaller aircraft.