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Old Mar 21, 2018 | 07:13 PM
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Those guys look like they're having way too much fun. Masking tape on the panel gaps, guy in the back with the 8mm movie camera. Tooo coool.
 
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Old Mar 21, 2018 | 08:04 PM
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Those guys look like they're having way too much fun. Masking tape on the panel gaps, guy in the back with the 8mm movie camera. Tooo coool.
I know I wish i was there!
 
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Old Mar 21, 2018 | 08:22 PM
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Not a big working truck but it's working. Came across this while looking for a color to paint my roadster. Hard to find colors of old skool hot rods that aren't black. Love this picture
I like that truck so much, I had to show it again. How many F100 stake body trucks have you seen? There were not many made. The truck gives you a good picture of what a stock half ton F100 stake bed looks like. Except they had shiny trim rings on.

Have you noticed how long the antenna is? Was it for a two way radio?
 
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Old Mar 21, 2018 | 08:37 PM
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I'm a little nervous for ya Dennis I've been a Firefighter for over 30 years and combustible to close to heating stoves, start a lot of fires. Just say'n. Main thing is you keep that stove pipe clean and always a fresh battery in your smoke detectors. Enough preaching. Is that white car a Pinto?

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I have a hand fired Burnham boiler that we got into the basement before the walls were laid up. When it was below 0 this winter I bet I was burning close to 150 lbs a day. It’s probably not very efficient, but I like it. It was built pre 1940 because it says Irvington NY on the door. Burnham moved to Lancaster PA in 1940. 4 years ago I was able to get new grates for it. I burned firewood for 36 years. I don’t miss that.
 
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Old Mar 22, 2018 | 08:40 AM
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The picture was taken in the off season. Note the temperature on the gauge. My 1st car a 71 pinto. Dennis
 
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Old Mar 29, 2018 | 09:18 AM
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Old Mar 29, 2018 | 10:17 AM
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Huh..... how did it go that wrong?????
 
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Old Mar 29, 2018 | 03:10 PM
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looks like there's a loading ramp on the other side of what seems to be a coal car
 
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Old Mar 29, 2018 | 07:49 PM
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Never mind. ;-)
 
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Old Mar 29, 2018 | 07:57 PM
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These guys look like a bunch of WWII vets trading stories about some upside down tank in a ravine in Belgium or something.
 
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Old Mar 29, 2018 | 08:21 PM
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I'm more curious about the truck. It appears to have six lug wheels and be a tandem axle. What model would that be for those years?
The reason I'm saying it's a twin screw is the forward mud flaps are a dead giveaway.
 
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Old Mar 30, 2018 | 10:36 AM
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I'm more curious about the truck. It appears to have six lug wheels and be a tandem axle. What model would that be for those years?
The reason I'm saying it's a twin screw is the forward mud flaps are a dead giveaway.
I saved and expanded the pic on my computer. The front wheel is 5 lug. In google searches I found this info page
1946 Ford Truck and Commercial Identification, Flathead V8, Model 69, 691, 694, 698, 6G - Restore Your Ford

and this truck looks similar. I don't see any evidence of tandem axles from my perspective.


 
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Old May 24, 2018 | 08:54 PM
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I found this picture on Facebook. It looks like at least four 1953 Big Jobs, one of which is a Deluxe model. The others are Autocars. I don't know the year of them. The concrete company is Kern Rock in I think Kern County, CA.
 
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Old May 25, 2018 | 12:38 PM
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Nice pic Abe! The Autocar trucks are late '40's In 1950 they went to the semi wrap-around split windshields. That same cab was shared with White, Diamond T, and a couple of others. I think it was a Budd cab. Is #57 the custom cab with the different grille? #56 has an air horn, suggesting it has air brakes. Curious, I thought the Big Job (Super Duty) trucks of the era had hood scoops. No? Wouldn't these trucks have the Super Duty big block engines? The biggest curiosity to me though is that none of the trucks appear to have marker or clearance lights. Hmm.
 
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Old May 25, 2018 | 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Mixer man
Nice pic Abe! The Autocar trucks are late '40's In 1950 they went to the semi wrap-around split windshields. That same cab was shared with White, Diamond T, and a couple of others. I think it was a Budd cab. Is #57 the custom cab with the different grille? #56 has an air horn, suggesting it has air brakes. Curious, I thought the Big Job (Super Duty) trucks of the era had hood scoops. No? Wouldn't these trucks have the Super Duty big block engines? The biggest curiosity to me though is that none of the trucks appear to have marker or clearance lights. Hmm.
I thought you would enjoy the old (but newer to you) concrete trucks! How many yards do you think they could carry?

Yes, number 57 is the Deluxe Cab. It has the "teeth" that they used in 53. The term Custom Cab was not used until 55. The hood scoops were first used in 1956 and then only on the larger engines or the ones with the 4 barrel carb. And it is odd they did not have clearance lights on the cab. Heck I now have 5 on my F350.

I see now that #56 has an air horn. It looks like they painted everything red! I would think they all had air brakes. They would have had an air compressor on the engine. Wouldn't
they need air to run the water to rinse their chutes?
 
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