I like trucks.

No. I love trucks. Cars are OK but meant to fit every seat, where trucks are purpose built at a time waay before cars were available to common folk. Hence a wide diversity of truck like vehicles. There's an antique truck show held every year within a mile of my house and it's only $1 to get in, free if you're showing something. Trucks, tractors, swap meet, car corral, hit & miss machines AND junk food! What's not to like?

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/1003/914Dan/?start=0

If anyone can answer this question I'd appreciate it: there was a 1931 Fordson tractor that had a cast metal plate on the dash that read "Made in Irish Free State". Anyone?

I'm not going to put up all 100 pictures, so here's a link. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/1003/914Dan/?start=0

These are cool, fiberglass freightliners on one ton Ford chassis.

An Isuzu!

Optimus Prime said: said:We live among you, hiding in plain sight.

Well, I am going to assume the question was going to be, "Why does it have this badge on it?", and if that is the question, I found this:

Henry Ford began his European manufacturing operations in Ireland at Cork, from which his father had immigrated to America. The Cork plant started building Fordson tractors with great hopes in 1919. However. the Irish Free State came into being in 1922, which placed a 22% tax on anything shipped to the United Kingdom and the Cork plant quickly withered to closure. Earlier, Ford had began assembling cars starting In October of 1911 on at its Trafford Park plant on the Slough Trading Estate near Manchester. England. They built 302,000 Model Ts by August of 1927 and closed in Decemberof 1931.

Linky

Was the Fordson imported? Seems that Irish Free State has nothing to do with a U.S. State that excluded people from Ireland but rather Irish people looking to gain their freedom from the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State

How can you tell if you are in an Irish free state...

....easy, there are no bars

Seriously, when I first read that I was thinking along the lines of some sort of Walt Disney anti-semit thing,

My favorite joke:

An Irishman walks out of a bar.

Not to nitpick - okay, that's exactly what I'm doing - but your Fiberglass Freightliners are actually Kenworths. Well, wanna-bes.

J

It is not the state, free of the Irish. It is the free state of Irish.

You can read a good history synopsis here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State

And I remember "Sneaky Petes" from the 70's.

....but some cool trucks and stuff! At the local fairgrounds we have a swap meet in September and the IH people have their national meet. It makes me want to buy one every year...

Stan

I dig this.

I've always thought it would be cool to drive commercially for a few years, if I didn't get into my desired career after college. Even in the economic slow-down truckers are still making good money and hiring like mad.

Can you make money locally? I'm digging this one.

Last year a guy had the same body on a one ton Ford frame and put a dually box on it.

The Old Macks are nice. When I was a kid my grandfather drove some B-model dump trucks. There is some money to be made locally, My father used to deliver frozen food. It paid about $20 and hour but it was long days and a lot of work. He would usually do between 12-14 hours and you pretty much unload the trailer by hand. I would try and find someplace that runs dump trucks. They seem to pay the best and they unload themselves. One of my wifes biggest fears I that i will come hme with an old Autocar wrecker that's for sale near us.

Wally wrote: One of my wifes biggest fears I that i will come hme with an old Autocar wrecker that's for sale near us.

THAT'S her biggest fear? What a keeper!