Vintage Cabovers & Transporters

[Jive-Bomber]

Someone sent me this great vintage photo collection of 40s and 50s auto transporters. I love the color coordinated trucks and trailers, some featuring covered bellies and Art Deco details. It must have really added to the excitement of the new models...

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[ChevyGirlRox]

Cool pictures, thanks Jay! It's amazing how ornate some of the trucks are.

I think that truck hauling the Packards is a Mack.

[HOTRODSURFER]

very cool ,i really dig old trucks,i think car carriers back then had style,maybe because the cars they were hauliing had style ?

[Don Moyer]

Makes you wonder where they all went...

[Engine-Ear]

Excellent image collection!!

It is wild to see the single-axles on both the trailer and tractor!

Anyone with images of 1962 full size Pontiacs on a hauler, please PM me or post them.

I am in the beginning stages of a long-term project that includes a half-dozen restored '62s all loaded down on a GMC hauler, and want to get views of typical markings, tarps, truck detail, etc.

[meteor]

Very cool images. It looks like a few of those trailers are collapsing under the weight of the top vehicles.

[MedicCustoms]

I would like to find one of thouse set ups in would be neat to haul your old cars around on one of these. Cool pic thanks for the post

[Vintageride]

Chevy Girl is right. It looks like a 1947-ish EHU model Mack. Lead car on the top is a nice '50 Packard Custom.

Great photos.

Vintageride

[froghawk]

Great photos! Love the way those old trailers are almost as "styled" as the cars and trucks.

[primeisnotacrime]

i believe the truck thats haulin the packards is a COE Mack truck you can tell by the Mack emblem on the lower front of the grill...

[jim mchargue]

Yes,the Packard hauling COE is an "E" model Mack,probably an EQT diesel powered rig.They were used in 1949,just before they introduced the new "A" model. The book,"History Of Mack Trucks" by Tom Brownell (page 80) has a similiar Mack rig hauling new Hudsons.Thanks for posting those cool old pictures!

[retro54]

I am facinated by these commercial vehicles as well Jay.. here is a thread I started this summer with some more neat pictures... would love to have one and have it packed with 4 or so period cars....

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=346862

[petritl]

Originally Posted by boneyardratz

I would like to find one of thouse set ups in would be neat to haul your old cars around on one of these. Cool pic thanks for the post

When I lived in the Piney Flats, TN area (1994 ish) there was a very old car hauler sitting in the middle of a field. It appeared to have been from the 40s or 50s and had been sitting there for quite some time.

If you are interested in trying to find it I can look at a map and probably get you close.

[bonez]

My intrest in old cars actually started w/ trucks!
I was in England and drooled over the MKII bedford truck for years,its a
bit newer being late 60s but kool nonetheless.
Got anymore?

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Originally Posted by petritl

When I lived in the Piney Flats, TN area (1994 ish) there was a very old car hauler sitting in the middle of a field. It appeared to have been from the 40s or 50s and had been sitting there for quite some time.

If you are interested in trying to find it I can look at a map and probably get you close.

I am only a few miles from there. Give me a location and I'll go see if it is still there.

[ToddJ]

Very cool photos, Thanks for posting them! Lots of great history!

[KIRK!]

I see a lot of COEs in my travels. Most are done poorly, but you can usually see through to how neat they could be.

Here's a nice one from Charlotte a couple weeks ago. Not period perfect, but cool.

[Django]

The COEs are fairly easy to find. The trailers though are next to impossible.

I could look at these photos all day.

[48fordcoe]

[48fordcoe]