Must've been a different rig. Cars look a different color. https://www.google.com/maps/place/3...2!3m1!1s0x52b45084d839f06b:0xd1ec629931608b08
At least you can afford to make a model of it. I couldn't afford to go and get it if they gave it to me but, man ain't that a cool rig? Have you priced models lately? geeesh.
It's all up for sale, I believe it's in Wilson NC. Here's a link to more pictures http://imgur.com/a/QYuLm. The guy also has them on Facebook and they were suppose to go on eBay this week.
I doubt if the cars have been on the trailer since 1956, the tires have narrow whitewalls that didn't come out until the sixties.
Update: look what is now parked in the lot behind the Keystone Tractor and Truck Museum on Petersburg, VA! Yup, there it is.... http://www.keystonetractorworks.com
This is the add that the origional photo in the thread came from http://www.autoquid.com/car-detail/...-1950-chevy-car-carrier-coe_262330564700.html
Phartman, MAN, I haven't hear those songs since I was up North some 20 years ago driving truck.I loved Ronny Milsap also.Thanks.Bruce.
Is't that a lot of weight on a single axle trailer? You would not want to restore these. They need left the way they are.
I used to drive big rig in the '60s, coast to coast. Boss had a '52 KW 'Bullnose' cab on a new '64 KW frame, 335 Cummins 'Horse'. (then) I drove the ol' '57 White Freightliner, 220Cummins w/ 10 speed Road Ranger, 10 wheeler w/tag axle. Always loaded to max, 73,280 lbs. Never hauled cars, but everything else. 40 foot reefer trailer, hauled produce, furs, jewelry, pharmaceuticals, common freight, name it. Never really met 'Big Joe', (not with him driving) but saw many strange things in the dark, on long roads that seemed to go to the ends of all things tangible, but sometimes not...saw a cow laying in my lane, 70+ MPH...started to turn into the left lane, and the cow just disappeared... Guys hitch hiking out in the middle of nowhere, stop and back up...The guy looked so real, he turned out to be a mailbox... One hitch hiker was dressed in a black raincoat, I stopped, he walked up, I had the door open, he got in...short trimmed beard, didn't say a word. Don't remember him closing the door, we drove off, real dark that night. Drove about 125 miles, I talked, he didn't. Got ready to turn in for fuel, asked my passenger if he wanted coffee. No answer...drove into the light, he wasn't there... LOL That was the first time... 'They looked just like aspirins, with a 'plus'.' Red Sovine was right.
Mike, thanks for posting. Good stories, man. I'm goin' out on the highway Listen to them big trucks whine I'm goin' out on the highway Listen to them big trucks whine Oh, White Freightliner Won't you steal away my mind? Ah, Lord, I'm gonna ramble 'Til I get back to where I came Ah, Lord, I'm gonna ramble 'Til I get back to where I came Oh, White Freightliner's Gonna haul away my brain.
I'd like to park that on my NEIGHBORS yard across the street. This woman is the ultimate, psycho "B" from hell! Her fraternal twin boys went away to college (scholarships to engineering school) 3 years ago at the U of W, and have only been back "home" a few times since; that says a lot. She'd have a stroke if that showed up in her yard; mission accomplished. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.
I was just sitting at my desk checking out the postings and this one sort of started running off onto trucker songs ,well as it just happens I have the Phantom 309 album that I just received from my brother ,I thought I would pass on what I read on the back ,nuff said, I'm going back to reading about hot rods, the old trucks are cool....I've always wanted a 50's model B Mack with a big kitty cat between the rails for my hauler Sent from my SM-G920V using H.A.M.B. mobile app
I have taken that ,,,...trip....it got pretty wild sometimes them damn head lights always following me...and that was during the day...and they would never pass when I would pull over.. Sent from my SM-G920V using H.A.M.B. mobile app
Atwater Mike I think Smith Klein and French helped a lot of us see things like that Remember the old trucking song "Six days on the road"? "I take those little white pills and my eyes are open wide".
Remember the old trucking song "Six days on the road"? Many, many covers of the old Dave Dudley song, but this live version from the "Last of the Red Hot Burrito Brothers" has to be my favorite. You just can't beat any band with Al Perkins on the steel and Byron Berline on the fiddle. Great cut here: And while we're at it, another old chestnut from a different lineup of this same terrific band: "White Line Fever" And shoot, it's Saturday night, let's have one more for the road: "Luxury Liner" Emmylou and Her Hot Band (Geez, how beautiful can a woman be? With a young Rodney Crowell singing backup, Albert Lee on the lead guitar, Hank Devito on the steel and ex-Elvis sidemen Emory Gordy on the bass and Glen Hardin on the keyboard) "Luxury liner, forty tons of steel No one in this whole wide world Knows the way I feel I've been a long lost soul For a long, long time I've been around Everybody ought to know what's on my mind You think I'm lonesome, so do I So do I. Well, I'm the kind of girl Who likes to make her livin' runnin 'round And I don't need a stranger To let me know my baby's let me down You think I'm lonesome, so do I So do I."
White line fever one of my all-time truckin' songs! I favored Merle Haggards versions: https://search.yahoo.com/search;_yl...p=1&fr2=rs-bottom,p:s,v:w,m:at-s&fr=yfp-t-562 I saw Merle in a truck stop in Glenwood Springs Colorado, in the early eighties. I waited for him to leave and I interrupted him asking about White Line Fever. He said he didn't remember doing that one. Remember the movie had just been made in '75. I was driving a real mountain rig that day. A 65 KW conventional, 335 Cummins with a twin stick, 5x4 with sanders in front of the drive tires. From that era I also recommend Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen: Hot Licks, Cold Steel and other Trucker favorites. Mamma' hated diesels so bad, I guess it had somthin' to do with Dad!
I was thinking about that same song from Commander Cody. Great minds, and all that.... Bring back any memories?
I love them old trucking songs! "Give me 40 acres" is also good "Giddy up go"' or "diesel smoke Sally" This little truck gets me all hot'n'barthered Almost as much as HRPs little black truck. It's a jimmy long bed, 49-54 Detroit Diesel 4-53T Air starter Twin stick (4x3) Jake brake Johnny cash shifting knop The same fellow owns a 48 Diamond T, same engine and drive train. Would that make it a Diamond T DD T?
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