Who's got the baddest forklift? Let's see them... We got a new fork for the shop and have some ideas... like to see what others have done!
Not mine.....but I did all the flames and pinstriping on this Hyster....has alot of custom made parts in stainless steel, custom exhaust and steering wheel, etc....the owner uses it in his large shop containing his car collection.... This is the only pic I have right now.....and I didn't see it once it was finished.
Saw an article in a material handling trade magazine this week talking about a forklift site............www.pimpmylift.com or something close to that.
i have an old tow motor 4000, it was free! built the carb, painted the whole body and mast flat black, added aluminum tape to all the bolts, levers and steering wheel spokes, and painted the rims red with solid white wall tires, with an assortment of speed stickers. dont have any pics on this puter. its a piece of shit. but its the best help i have ever had at my shop. its a traditional kind of lift.
I was over at a guys shop last week. He put a 350/350 in an old airplane tug. Didn't bother to take a picture.
HA HA HA and i thought i was the only one ever to flame a fork lift. at the GM plant i first worked at i flamed one with paint markers. just an outline. we had 3 wheeled bicycles too and i flamed teh fenders on one of them with paint markers. looked pretty rad too. everyone loved it and other departments often tried to steal it.
Found this... http://www.hookahsociety.com/pimp/ But looks like they put a "fork" in it!!!! Sinister... I like that one you did too!!!
cool dude! looks like i'm coming to see you when mine gets a new coat of paint. it needs flames on the front and a dude giving a BA on the back. just for my asshole neighbor!
Bring it over Greg, we'll flame it out good, haha....... I just finished painting and airbrushing a jacked up, modded EZ-GO golfcart too.....
I've seen some pretty killer ones at this place i got to get scrap steel they got spoilers and flames on them pretty cool stuff.
Charleyw, I found that pimp site: www.pimpmylift.ca. It's awesome, man! You can pimp out a forklift with rims, flames, etc. And the best thing is that the company who put the site up actually does this to their lift trucks!
Just got word from my boss at my 9-5 that if the winter is slow, its time to do up ours. He wants to find foam filled wide whites for it, a big 4" chrome stack, a huge auto meter tach we have lyin around, and he wants me to flame it, haha. Awesome.
never thought i'd find other forklift hobby folks in here, shoulda known I saved two freebies from going in the scrap bin...ones staying home for now, the other i'm donating to a local airplane museum to go with their ground equipment collection- dressed it up for some 'stolen valor', as the army equivalent model[ they used the same model from like 1958-1967, nearest I can tell its a 1963 model...the newer ones a 1993, it is actually good as the new trucks at work... the old one runs great, but its got a manual clutch, so not likely to get much use...
I remember some indoor forklift races at a company Christmas party. The bosses came out of the office and stopped it.
wow- never seen one like that- very cool...woulda guessed 1957 instead of 47, definitely had some 'style'
heavily patina'd bet it can lift a lot- but from the look of the steer setup, bet shes got a 50' turning circle
there was one of those "transitier" fork lifts on an auction this winter. i was gonna bid, but my neighbor talked me out of bringing home more junk. it went for 60 bucks!!! i was pissed. they have crosely motors in them. cool shit!
a couple pictures of the riding log splitter it’s a Clark built about 25 years ago , works great Sent from my iPad using H.A.M.B.
wow- vertical clutch??? assume its single wheel (or maybe 3 wheel) drive? that must be a later model one, did some reading, they had a air cooled crosley motor originally. definitely a weird setup
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