💸Captain Awesomes Fresh Finds/General Ramblings
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Fixtures first. Then some experiments
Bike or house fixtures?
The former
MattiThundrrr
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... believe it or not, I don't watch Paul's videos. I barely watch any online vids at all. I mostly read words and look at pictures. I find that I don't really retain the information in video format
Really he does dude has a library.
New toy
Cheap starter model to learn from
Cheap starter model to learn from
Please just no confusing videos that don't make sense
MattiThundrrr
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That bumper gives me ideas for fenders...
Whoa! That’s a real tugboat.
Is that possibly a rare dual V8?
They built some of those with a top engine and a bottom engine.
I can’t imagine what the transfer case was like. That almost certainly has a dual range transmission.
EDIT…
Nah, forget what I said. They quit building those in the 40s. From the web:
“How many Twin-Motor Trucks were produced is not known. However, while it was quite possibly the first, Grico was not the only builder of dual-engine Ford trucks in that era. Manufacturers included Spangler, E&L, Merry-Neville, Thorco, and others.”
Is that possibly a rare dual V8?
They built some of those with a top engine and a bottom engine.
I can’t imagine what the transfer case was like. That almost certainly has a dual range transmission.
EDIT…
Nah, forget what I said. They quit building those in the 40s. From the web:
“How many Twin-Motor Trucks were produced is not known. However, while it was quite possibly the first, Grico was not the only builder of dual-engine Ford trucks in that era. Manufacturers included Spangler, E&L, Merry-Neville, Thorco, and others.”
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Pretty sure it was originally a Mercury COE. Hard to tell if it was converted to a tow truck or what
1951 ford cabover
I was gonna say 52. Basically the same with different badges
I'd use it to mow down Kia's on the highway just screams get out of my way.
Top speed of that ‘52 is probably about 48 mph if the engine’s running correctly.
I remember test driving a 60s model of this coe truck with the ohv (390?) Merc V8 engine. It was over 30 years ago in Fresno.
It had the road ranger type dual range transmission. Split axle. 16 forward gears. Possibly three reverses. I don’t remember driving it more than 25 feet in reverse.
In the lowest gear it topped out about 2.5 mph. Just enough to make the speedometer needle jerk a little bit.
I remember test driving a 60s model of this coe truck with the ohv (390?) Merc V8 engine. It was over 30 years ago in Fresno.
It had the road ranger type dual range transmission. Split axle. 16 forward gears. Possibly three reverses. I don’t remember driving it more than 25 feet in reverse.
In the lowest gear it topped out about 2.5 mph. Just enough to make the speedometer needle jerk a little bit.
That completely changes my view of Kia's very cool
