Old Cars...Old Trucks

[Sean Malone]

My Dad emailed these pictures to me yesterday, reminiscing about some of the cars he once had. What really stuck out to me is how fantastic the old tractor trailers are!

[Sean Malone]

and some more...

[SteveH]

very cool :thumbup:

[datachicane]

Hauler full of '53 Studes :cool: even if only one is a coupe.

[Don Quixote]

Is that a Hudson on that last photo? Looks something like the 1940 Hudson my dad had.

[indyfan31]

Love that "vent" on the Chevy truck, my mom's DeSoto had the same one.
Even the trailers themselves were stylish.

[dando]

Is that a Hudson on that last photo? Looks something like the 1940 Hudson my dad had.

Having just watched Cars like three times over the past couple of weeks :saywhat: it looks like a Hudson.

-Kevin

[oddlycalm]

Way cool. Back in the day most of those trucks would have been running gasoline engines. Imagine what it would cost to run one of those today. :eek:

oc

[cameraman]

Can you imagine how slow those gas powered trucks must have been laden with 11,000 lbs of Studebaker?

[miatanut]

Can you imagine how slow those gas powered trucks must have been laden with 11,000 lbs of Studebaker?

My grandfather drove a gasoline tank truck in Kansas and Oklahoma during the Depression. There was one place where the road went down to a creek and back up and he needed a running start down the hill to avoid crawling up the other side and one time got busted by a cop at the bridge waiting for people doing that. Climbing away from the ticket stop up the hill was an ordeal.

[indyfan31]

Can you imagine how slow those gas powered trucks must have been laden with 11,000 lbs of Studebaker?

is the truck towing them a Studebaker too? It kind of looks like the grille of the pickup they made.

[Napoleon]

is the truck towing them a Studebaker too? It kind of looks like the grille of the pickup they made.

I know Studebaker made trucks because a huge part of the war material the US gave to the USSR during WWII was in the form of Studebaker trucks. They even used them as a rocket platform.

What do you know, found this picture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/BM-13_RB.jpg

[datachicane]

is the truck towing them a Studebaker too? It kind of looks like the grille of the pickup they made.

Yep. Most of those haulers look like the same make as the cars. I think they even took some liberties with the front end of that GMC hauling the Oldsmobiles...

[oddlycalm]

is the truck towing them a Studebaker too? It kind of looks like the grille of the pickup they made.
Yes, definitely. There were still some used on farms when I was living in Idaho in the 70's. That grill made them easy to spot.

IMO the holy grail of cool for old pickups are the Studebackers.

oc