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Ugh

 

You need to attach hitch points to the rear of the trailers then he can pull all 3 at one time.

learn to back all three would be a challenge

 

Arctic cat used to have their engines produced by Suzuki, they parted ways years ago when cat started making their own (inferior in my opinion) engines. Who knows who makes them now.

 

Thx

 

Beautiful truck, upper model too with AC, PW, PL.
I never trust that style of adjustable draw bar though, just looks ...

 

I'm a huge fan of the square bodies... and found this today

 

Hunters marinade round 2:

Mrs Green is downstate visiting her mother so in addition to my usual position of being in command of the range I also have executive control of the ingredients.

Tonight as I marinated my (cheap) steak I also added two forbidden extras -- mushrooms and onions.

I must add here that although I do the majority of the cooking since I retired I don't possess any real skill or intuition for cooking.

That said, I impressed myself two nights in a row, then my standards are low too.

 

@RustyGreen

Enlighten me on what COE means please!

It's listed as a 1958 Dodge COE Truck

 

Cab Over Engine

Lots of medium and heavy duty trucks of the 40's & 50's had that "helmet shaped" or "cannonball" cab, kind of a hybrid of a pick up and a true COE tractor.

 

Thank you!

One more question..
How long was the Chevrolet Cameo name used on the trucks?

 

GMC "Crackerbox" cabover. The red day cab on the left is only 48" deep.










Check out the luxury in the sleeper equipped version, our trucking forefathers must have been:
1) Tough
2) Slim, the sleeper cab only added 24", the mattress was 30" wide on the passenger side narrowing down to 22" behind the driver.

 

Only 3 4 years I believe 1955-57 58, part of the new for 55' Chev "Task Force" line.

EDIT: One year 58' on the Apache line.

 

Cab overs have made a come back. They make a pretty radical rat rodish pickup or I've seen em done up in a ton of flake paint with a hydraulic flat bed. Ive sat in a few of those 40's-50's trucks and am convinced nobody in those days was over 6'1 or 250 lbs. Didnt Ford make banjo type steering wheels that folded out of the way? 30'sish era Fords.

 

We passed by a place today that had an S-10 on blocks that had Cameo on the side! Google says 1989 models only, and not many at that.

 

Ford introduced the swing away steering wheel for the 1961 Thunderbird, it moved about 10" to the right for ease of entry/exit.

If you watch the 60's TV series Perry Mason you can sometimes see Paul Drake use the feature on his Thunderbirds.



The modern style tilt steering column was introduced in 1963 by Cadillac, Lincoln followed in 1964.

 

The 50's Cameo was a specialty top of the line truck, perhaps the first luxury/appearance pick up truck.

I didn't know GM had reused the name, I don't know much about modern vehicles -- 1989 is modern for me.

 

My neighbor has one of those era Thunderbird's with that steering wheel. Pretty neat. It sat for about 7 years and they recently got it back on the road.



I had to bang on the carburetor to get it going the other day when it stalled out and wouldn't stay running driving up the lane.

I did get a big bag of fully shucked sweet corn outta that though. Love my neighbors behind me

 

Looks like they might have used it in 1958 too?

 

Yep, I didn't know they used the Cameo name on the renamed for 58' Apache trucks.

 

The only one I remember was the Chevy Bison. Grandfather was a trucker and had a favorite joke…
“Old truckers never die, they just get a new Peterbuilt.”