Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Trucks!

In amongst the tractors at the State Fair was a small contingent of trucks:
Shiny red Dodge Power Wagon. Coincidentally, this very vehicle is pictured at the Wikipedia article on said vehicle.

Ford Model AA truck.

Detail of Boyce MotoMeter radiator cap on Ford. (Isn't the internet grand? Five minutes ago I didn't even know what this thing was called...)

Cute little chrome bulldog figurehead graces prow of large red Mack truck.

A row of trucks of various vintages. The guy with the blue IH truck on the left has obviously been slacking off with the Turtle Wax.

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  1. Nothing finer than a vintage Dodge Power Wagon (with the possible exception of it's military cousin, the Dodge M-37.)

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  2. Power Wagon...Drool.

    Same with the vintage Mack...now those are just nice rides you don't see every day.

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  3. Love the old power wagon. Loved the one in Hatari with the seat on it from which the Duke snared a rhino.

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  4. The Ford is pretty sweet too...

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  5. The IH guy is 'Mater-izing his truck.

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  6. Hey, when you took the pic of the radiator cap, were you needing to drain yours? Just wondering is all......

    BIG GRIN

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  7. What, no one remembers the Power Wagon in Simon & Simon?

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  8. Why can't modern trucks look this cool?

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  9. Many years ago, we came up behind what appeared to be the world's smallest pickup truck, obviously converted from some sort of tiny sedan or wagon. We didn't recognize it, so we vowed to get a look at the front.

    And on the hood of this mutant Honda 360, there stood the Mack bulldog, same size as the one on a Class 8 truck. If it hadn't been nose-heavy before, it was now.

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  10. Neat pics, and I learned how to drive in a '58 Power Wagon!!! Wish we still had it (even though I knocked two fenders off)...

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  11. I once spent a summer using an ancient Power Wagon as a work truck. True, the doors were gone, and starting the engine in the morning needed a fair bit of advanced planning... but it was a rather sweet vehicle.

    The current Series 70 Land Cruiser pickups have the same sort of real working truck vibe, but you won't see them in the USA, and they cost about $55,000 new in the 3rd world.

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  12. Broken Andy:

    Due to Euro pedestrian impact standards, all vehicles now look pretty much the same. The US automakers generally follow along with the Europeans. That's why you will never see this sort of thing again.

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