Shop Time w/T.W. Friends. Where is your wallet…..poll

They got another bridge and the tunnel as well. I think this was the only one they could take hazardous materials on too.

 

Or go around the west side of the city.

 

That didn't take long

 

As the Ford C-Series is one of my all time favorites I will re-post my previous edition of Past Tech with Rusty about them.
These were built with the body essentially unchanged from 1957 all the way to 1990.

They were the true anonymous "Everyman" of the medium duty world serving in every capacity from stake, tank, van, dump or specialty bodies, fire trucks and all the way up to over the road tractors.
A hard working C-Series might have delivered your heating oil or picked up the trash yet it never was noticed.

Power was provided by Ford in line 6 & V8 engines the biggest being the 534 cubic inch "Super Duty" that had an tremendous appetite for gas, several diesels from various manufactures were also used.

Barely visible in the photo below, this short chassis truck has 4 headlights, only used between 58-60. The 4 headlight setup was used on fire trucks much later, still only 2 actual headlights, red lights were mounted in the other 2 holes.



In the back of your mind you will remember Roadway Express used them for years with the distinctive color scheme. See that reflector/light on the driver door under the "R"? It first appeared on Ford pickups in 1968 and was used on the C-Series until 1990.



1968, there it is.



Although the C-Series was used (and mostly ignored) over a wide variety of uses the most unusual may be the use of the C-Series cab in highway tractor service as the H-Series (1961-65) or as it was often referred to "the two story Falcon", the Falcon being the lightest, cheapest, most basic Ford car of the day.



If you look closely at the yellow truck you can see where the wheel well is blanked out, many of these had a toolbox/storage cabinet located there with a curved top opening. Notice the tiny add on sleeper too.



Driverized cab or not those truckers must have been tough to make hundreds of miles a day in these trucks.



You can see the cargo door clearly in the photo below.

 

Typical bridge game but they bid more than they asked.

 

Back in the day we had two Ford tilt cab firetrucks, one was diesel, one was gas, both were slow

 

That's pretty awesome, I like the styling, but not the split rim wheels. I don't think I ever got to drive one of those. I didn't start driving tractors tailer rigs until '93, but I drove a lot of older trucks dating back into the late '70s and '80s.

 

Bridge delivery where do you want it?.

 

Nope, will not be bandaid free for a while
This why falling down stairs is bad when trying to wipe your ass.

 

1/8” endmill got me the other day.

 

The thread title says band aid free, not accident free. As long as neither of you used a band aid the count keeps going up!

 

Ain't no way I'm posting my damage to myself.

My luck my insurance company is monitoring this thread.

Those pricks do not need another reason increase my rates!

 

Why were you pooping at the stop of the stairs in the first place? The bathroom is much better place for that.

 

Cali...

 

Ouch, can't like that...

 

Yeah, that would be optimal. Except when you are a gardener or poolman
There are not bathrooms at every stop. When you are prairie dogging, you need to find satisfaction. . This time it bit back.

 

There are a few more pics out there of my dumb ass injuries.