My brother and his wife are touring Sweden right now. They sent me a few pictures which were heavily Curbside Classic-related, so here they are.
Three Scania conventional trucks from the seventies, one of them already blending in with the landscape.
Although the conventional truck gradually became a dying breed in Europe from the early sixties onwards, these Scanias still sold very well throughout the continent.
Back then they were by far the most successful conventional heavy-duty truck and tractor unit (with a 4×2, 6×2 or 6×4 chassis). The biggest engine available in this model was Scania’s 11 liter inline-six, like in the 111 above.
Fully operational, this rather compact Gulf gas station. It may be small, but it is great!
The Scanias are cool, but I really like that Gulf station! Part of my pre-teen and early teen years were spent hanging out in the Gulf station in the small town where I grew up.
One of my reproduction tin signs features the old-style Gulf logo on those gas pumps.
Cool, wish I had enough room for three large trucks on my property.
I saw your name on the header and rightaway figured that the photo was not from the Netherlands. Not tidy enough.
I’ll bet that “Old Dutch” was originally referring to “Deutschland” and the “Pennsylvania Dutch” who were actually German.
They should be given credit for many various American baking techniques and terms, or at least how they adapted them from the old country to the new world.
I’m sure a blueberry crumble would cause you to need to do much in the way of “cleans, scrubs, scours, polishes.”
Yeah, that’s been a major source of misinformation for centuries. They spoke “Deutsch”, which Americans morphed into “Dutch”. Pennsylvania was the primary original goal for German immigrants. There were so many at one time that there was a movement afoot to make German the official language!
The actual Dutch were mostly in and around NYC.
Actually the word Duyts means Dutch in old Dutch..
Before that it was called Diets, this was way before the German language seperated from the Dutch or Diets language.
There was even a Dietsland, which was the Netherlands as we know it with links to Dutch speaking Belgium up into the North of France’s coastal area till roughly Calais and even a part of Luxemburg was considered Diets
At the unification of what we now know as Germany, the language was chosen by the representatives of the largest state Prussia, they chose for Deutsch.
Feelings and sentiments of one big Dietsland were playing in WW 2 when Dutch and Flemmish nationalists believed Hitler might allow a ‘large’ Dietsland since these nationalists collaborated with the Germans.
In the 16th century Dutch was written as Duytsch (German in translation) and the two languages the pure Dutch or Duytsch and what we know as German seperated over time, German becoming a sort of High-Duytsch language.
growing up in Berks County Pennsylvania, the little old ladies would sometimes say “if you ain’t Dutch…you ain’t much!”
Love it all! I have not seen gas pumps that close to a building in . . . maybe never?
I will join DougD in some profiling and guess that folks with three well-used Scanias in the yard are more likely to be Volvo people than Saab people? 🙂
I guess this wasn’t technically a “gas” pump, but I remember a convince store we sometimes went to when I was a kid that had the regular gas pumps on an island like usual, and then a separate pump for kerosene next to the building. Which made perfect sense since if you were buying kerosene you were putting it in a can, not in your car (now if turbine powered cars had caught on it might have been different…)
Actually now that I think about it there was another gas station my dad always went to when I was a kid. As I remember it on the island there were three pumps — Regular (leaded), Unleaded, and Super Unleaded. Then there was a Diesel pump, off by itself, next to the service bays.
This is in Europe, and gas stations are mostly very different than in the US. They typically are/were right on the edge of the road, on a widened shoulder, and only had room for two cars, front to back. This is a typical small gas station in Europe.
Paul we still have some miniscule fuel stations in Vienna situated in residential areas, usually offering cheaper gas and diesel. As long as they operate the city can’t get rid of them and as you can imagine, the owners hold into them as long as they can.
Nice old trucks ! .
? No one ever mention that in the early 1970’s as Gulf was drying it briefly became “GO LO” brand .
The Dutch Cleanser lady : she hits you with the stick if you don’t scrub well enough ? .
-Nate
Ask the relatives as they tour Sweden if they find any old trucks powered by Hesselman engines. Now that is a project!
I love that Gulf station! There were still many similar sized stations around when I was a kid in the 80s-early 90s. I sort of miss the no-nonsense gas station.
Not unusual, I can’t recall my farming relatives selling a truck until my grandfather retired and moved off the farm.
Really nice. I’ve been watching videos of old trucks on the internet. It is easy to find some old Scanias like these hauling timber in Scandinavia and Finland. Here in Brazil they’re still working hard. Check this one I spotted last July at highway gas station rest area near the border of the States of Minas Gerais and Góias.
Excellent! There are a lot of them still around here too, but only as a hobby-/show truck. These conventionals look classic, almost vintage, although they are really not that old.
Just compare them with the Scania 14 liter V8 conventional from the seventies, which looks much more like a modern-era truck (square lines, bigger cab with a bigger windshield etc.)
Yes ! good point, they look older than the ones with the squared conventional cab, which were never built or sold in Brazil. By the way the models featured in our pictures are nicknamed “jacaré” (alligator) here, because of the way the huge hood opens.
We had quite a few of those in Israel back in the day…
Here’s another (pic by Nisim Tal)
Nice old trucks. If it weren’t for the fact that Scania trucks aren’t sold in Canada, it would look like somewhere in rural Ontario. I love the old Gulf station as well, although, again, antique gas pumps are more of a conversation piece here than anything else. I’d be happy to gas up at a classic old place like that.