Art & Inspiration Old Garage and wrecker pictures

I would love to have seen that airplane station in person....hell I'd like to see any of em in person...

 

we gotta keep this going.......

check out the kid in the 30 model A roadster, disc wheels+ mud on body= hotrodder hoodlum! there such cool pictures!

 

Aah the good ol' days

 

So what make is the truck in the 3rd pic? That is sweet!


Larry

 

Hey COOL!, there's a '55 Studebaker Speedster sittin' on the drive......

 

the truck looks like a chevy to me, I'm wondering what the car is in "jacks auto works" garage in the picture above the truck. small sports car??

 

Looks like Chrysler emblems on the hub covers. ???????? I don't know for sure at the moment and the front fenders have Chryslerish lines but my guess is it started out as the sedan or coupe version of the roadster from 2 or 3 posts before it. Check out the hood side panels and wheels.....




My sister has the album right now but my Dad has pics of one of the local garages on a call just down the road from the old home place back around 1938. They made a wrecker out of a early 30's LaSalle roadster, as soon as I can get it from her I'll scan those and post them, might be awhile though.

 

http://www.cheesepitstop.com/viewtopic.php?p=34653#34653

 

The photo isn't old, it was taken over the summer when we were moving the "piles" around

 

bump...we need more..

 

The Chrysler looking truck is differnt then the roadster on the lift, look at the louvers. Both are killer. I think the truck was made from a coupe.

 

I had some great photos of a 34 Packard Tow Truck but lost em in a putor crash.

 

Originally Posted by unklgriz
So what make is the truck in the 3rd pic? That is sweet!



Cadillacs were used a lot for wreckers, plus other huge cars too.
Here is a Cad v-16 around 1930. The rad shell looks like Cad.. Those sure look like truck wheels from the 30s

 

more more more......

these are great

 

Here's a cool wrecker from the early days owned by a Fred Houston out of Texas.

CRUISER

 

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I can give ya some wrecker pictures, Here's one, http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/art_laing/47_chevy_wrecker.jpg

 

Here's another, http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/spottswood/sp02839.jpg

 

This isn't in Mn and it may not be as old as you are looking for,but it is my old 62 Ford F-500 wrecker. I no longer drive it because the insurance is so high,but have used to to haul a trailer 300 miles one way to winch a 40 Ford on the trailer to bring home. Extendable boom that cranks up and down,and a 20 ton gear driven winch with 200 feet of half inch cable. Wish I could still afford to keep license plates on it because it was a real hoot to drive.

 

Is that Springfield Auto Body wrecker a Hudson?

 

Nah,look at how big and heavy the wheels and tires are. This thing was a truck from day one. MY best guess is a Hudson,but that's just a guess.

 

Shell service truck. Make that SKELL!