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NickD said:

SaltyDog said:

Story??

Referring to moi? Belongs to a family friend of ours. Some 30 years ago, him and my grandfather went and retrieved this thing. At the time it ran, because the story was that the truck they were flat-towing with started lugging down on the hill, so my grandfather lit the flathead off and shoved them up the hill. Truck then spent the last 30 years returning to earth. My father and I cut this friend's firewood this year, and in payment he wanted this truck instead. So we dragged it out of the weeds with our Caterpillar D2 (which we recently revived from a 9 year slumber) to prepare for chopping up for parts for our '48 F-4 dump truck. Surprisingly the fenders and doors are still solid, along with the grille panel. It also has a good 2-speed rearend and enough split-ring wheels to make our F-4 safe again. Flathead is seized up, but could be salvaged likely. Frame is beyond junk.

Cool old Ford.

I could see the body on a newer 3/4 frame with an oil burner.

Good luck with the F-4, like to see some pics of that as well. It's great to see old equipment still doing what it was intended for. 

SaltyDog said:

NickD said:

SaltyDog said:

Story??

Referring to moi? Belongs to a family friend of ours. Some 30 years ago, him and my grandfather went and retrieved this thing. At the time it ran, because the story was that the truck they were flat-towing with started lugging down on the hill, so my grandfather lit the flathead off and shoved them up the hill. Truck then spent the last 30 years returning to earth. My father and I cut this friend's firewood this year, and in payment he wanted this truck instead. So we dragged it out of the weeds with our Caterpillar D2 (which we recently revived from a 9 year slumber) to prepare for chopping up for parts for our '48 F-4 dump truck. Surprisingly the fenders and doors are still solid, along with the grille panel. It also has a good 2-speed rearend and enough split-ring wheels to make our F-4 safe again. Flathead is seized up, but could be salvaged likely. Frame is beyond junk.

Cool old Ford.

I could see the body on a newer 3/4 frame with an oil burner.

Good luck with the F-4, like to see some pics of that as well. It's great to see old equipment still doing what it was intended for. 

 

That's Dad on the Cat clearing a path to the F4. The wonky wrought-iron grille guard on the F-6 is actually an OEM Ford piece, and is kinda interesting in that it uses a strange stylized F that Ford never used anywhere else.

I totally would love to turn that cab into something like the Old Smokey F1, but I have enough other stuff going on at the moment.

I love the '48-'50 body style. Probably my favorite old trucks, except for maybe the '55 Ford 

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aircooled said:

Video games have come a long way from PacMan

 

 

But (apparently) they are trying to revise history.

Hint: F1 stopped using the banking after 1961 and the Lotus 49 was introduced in 1967.

OK captain buzzkill , that was me.  I just liked the car and the track.  I was just assuming because of the movie Gran Prix:

Fine.  Name the car and track here:

In reply to Appleseed :

Love me some toe jam and earl

Why are these just sitting?

914Driver said:

Why are these just sitting?

Took a while to find a credible back story on this one, but they are apparently movie props.  They are built on formula 3000 chassis.  F3000 with provenance and race history is worth 20-65k depending on condition and desirability. 

GoogleFu is strong with this one....   Thanks Traveller.