6 thoughts on “Old Truck Tuesday.

  1. no.2 is a modern electric (ugh) “copy” based on a 1950’s Morris Commercial J type half ton van. They should at least have kept the split windscreen .

    • Ya know, you have to reach back in the closet and get rid of stuff that is cluttering the closet… So weird today is the norm.

  2. August 25-26 was the yuge annual open-house and truck show at Pacific Northwest Truck Museum in Brooks, Oregon.
    Exit 263 on Interstate Five.
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    These enthusiasts have probably a hundred acres of displays… some very odd, such as:
    * the building dedicated to dozens of simultaneously-running one-lung hit-n-miss engines,
    * the massive shed with the operating timber trimmer, the operators mere inches from the six-foot spinning blades — one operator riding the eight-foot across log [shudders in anticipation of inevitable disaster]
    * the entire running machine shop with every tool spun by an insane amount of moving flopping leather belts from a single overhead drive-shaft
    * the ‘mile’ of antique restored Kenworth
    * the ‘mile’ of antique restored Peterbilt
    * and so forth.
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    http://www.pacificnwtruckmuseum.org/
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    I discovered them after I noticed a lot of similar traffic on the freeway.
    Self thinks “Garsh!, something is happening without me!”… and the game was afoot.
    Can you imagine passing a rest-stop and seeing a 1938 Dodge semi towing a 1946 semi-trailer flatbed with a 1927 Chrysler pickup strapped atop?
    Stuff like that gets my attention!

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