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Vintage Snapshot/Truck of the Day: 1940’s Brockway – Life On The Road
Posted on September 14, 2021 | 12 CommentsJoe Wanchura was a truck driver, but his passion was photographing them. As such, his vast collection of shots from the 1940s and 1950s are pretty much the only ones […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: 1950’s Sterling Hauling Big Load With A Different Kind Of Fifth Wheel – 0-60 In How Many Minutes?
Posted on September 11, 2021 | 10 CommentsI certainly don’t know what the non-truck type of “fifth wheel” is doing attached to this rig. But I’m quite confident that the answer to my question posed in the […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: 1936 Ford Chassis With Custom Body – McCormick’s Streamlined Biscuits
Posted on September 3, 2021 | 18 CommentsThe mid 1930s ushered in the streamlined era, and trucks of all sorts were not immune to the new trend. To have a custom built streamlined truck or deliver van […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: Chevrolet Titan (1969-1980) – GM’s Design Center Sets A New Standard For Big Trucks
Posted on August 29, 2021 | 38 CommentsAfter GMC’s brutalist “crackerbox” tractors, its successor, the GMC Astro was a relief for sore eyes. Arguably the best designed big COE tractor of its era, the vaunted GM design […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: Ford H Series – Jacked Up C-Series Highway Tractor
Posted on August 22, 2021 | 25 CommentsIt didn’t take me long as a kid of seven or eight to figure out that these tall Ford semi trucks I’d see on the highway in Iowa were just […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: 1956 Ford F900 – First Year For Ford’s Legendary HD Truck Hood Scoops
Posted on August 20, 2021 | 37 CommentsI was well aware of Ford’s big hood scoops on their HD trucks in the early-mid sixties. But I just ran across these shots of a couple of ’56s […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: Available Truck – Yes, That’s The Brand, Available Only In Chicago
Posted on May 24, 2021 | 39 CommentsToday’s obscure dead brand truck comes to us from Chicago, where from sometime in the 1910’s through the last one in 1957 a small “assembler” of available truck components—including cabs—called […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: 1940s Peterbilt 350/351 – Already A Classic In The 1960s
Posted on April 24, 2021 | 12 CommentsThis shot from the mid-late 1960’s shows a Peterbilt 350/351 from the late 1940’s in a quintessentially California shot: a rest area near Lebec, with towering bare California oak trees […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: Mack B-Series – What’s With The Two Small Gas Engines on the Trailer?
Posted on April 21, 2021 | 20 CommentsAlways love seeing vintage Mack B-Series trucks, especially with the integrated sleeper. But the twin Briggs and Stratton single cylinder (5hp?) gas engines perched on the shelf on the front […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: GMC “Crackerbox” – Taking The Wife And Kids For A Long Drive
Posted on March 30, 2021 | 16 CommentsGiven my deep dive into all things “crackerbox” a year ago, the only reason I’m sharing this one with you is because of the occupants: Dad, Mom, and the two […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: GMC Brigadier With Extra Large Sleeper
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Vintage Truck of the Day: GMC With High-Traction Tires
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Vintage Truck of the Day: 1935 Studebaker – Before Truck Aerodynamics Were Abandoned And Then Re-Embraced
Posted on March 17, 2021 | 14 CommentsThat absolute block of a Dodge semi truck in yesterday’s video reminded me how much aerodynamics had once been important in the trucking industry—beyond just the styling—and then was totally […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: Early 1960s Ford F1100 Diesel In The Fast Lane – The Highest Number F-Series
Posted on February 26, 2021 | 41 CommentsI love old shots of trucks on the go; reminds me of being on the road in the 60s or early 70s. And although not exactly a rare sight, these […] -
Vintage Truck of the Day: 1936 Diamond T – Back When Trucks Looked Like Luxury Cars
Posted on February 24, 2021 | 17 CommentsI could look at old truck pictures all day long, especially from the 1930s and 1940s. This was a time when big trucks still retained a lot of stylistic kinship […]