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RRobertN reacted to Renze's post in the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days! with
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In 1959 our national pride, Daf, came out with a 5.75 liter 165hp turbo diesel. They started building engines just two years prior by... -
RRobertN replied to the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!.Yes, there are some differences in nomenclature West Coast vs Midwest vs East Coast. But when things hit the fan, the job gets done !
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RRobertN reacted to Engineer42's post in the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days! with Good Post.
Nice shot. On the East Coast, if you ask for a tender you get chicken!
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RRobertN replied to the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!.
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RRobertN replied to the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!.GM/Detroit did all kinds of variation on the diesels too. The 71 series ranged from one, two, three, four and six cylinders, and the...
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RRobertN reacted to deserteagle71's post in the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days! with Good Post.
40+ years ago when I was a fireman in a small town we had two fire trucks. One was a cabover Ford similar to what is in your picture...
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RRobertN replied to the thread Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong.Make me want to get some Flatt and Scruggs going in the headphones!
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RRobertN replied to the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!.When I was volunteering at the local fire station, we had a couple of Ford 7 and 8 series cab chassis based Beck and Van Pelt...
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RRobertN replied to the thread TnT question.Wow! Tractor Supply has Cat 2 top links for $65... https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/countyline-adjustable-top-link-cat-2-288959
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RRobertN replied to the thread Do you charge your friends for tractor work?.I don't charge. Sometimes I've been given money for fuel but that's about it. But, generally I don't take on others large projects...
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RRobertN reacted to ultrarunner's post in the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days! with Good Post.
Bantam made the first and delivered photo type on schedule to War Department. Came in overweight but War Department fully impressed…...
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RRobertN replied to the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!.Like Mitsubishi and others, the contracts for licensed Jeep's goes back to WWII. First Ford made the GPW to support the war effort...
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RRobertN replied to the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!.They're generally not street registerable. They are licensed thru Jeep, and registered as a side-by-side in most of the US. Might as...
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RRobertN replied to the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!.All of the Willy's/Jeep MB/GPW/CJ series were too, from WWII until 1971. Even then some folks would add them so they had that extra...
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RRobertN replied to the thread Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!.Economy of scale to support two platforms? Cheaper in the long run to only support one platform?
