Recent content by jollyroger

Hey Oldfart, check this truck out. Since you were working at GMC Truck and Coach mid fifties can you shed some light here?

Looks like the U 8144T. That was the 5-6 ton tractor version. It was mostly used as the bridge pontoon tractor truck. Whacha gonna do with it?

And some of us, like me, are just impaired. :-P

The frame , bumper support and bumper were each made of 3/8ths steel. We think there was some hardened material because we hit some hard spots in the bumper supports. OK, for this job we used some Snap on Thunder bits and a Snap On slow speed air drill for the pilot hole and secondary hole...

The York Hoover van bodies were truck brand specific. In the radio setup picture the trucks are the GMC cabovers. The GMC cabover van bodies had square rear wheel well openings. The Autocar van bodies had round rear wheel well openings. In the first picture there is also a picture of the...

Indeed you do......I had people that would drive by, slow down so I could pass them again, roll down both windows on the passenger side and three or four cameras and phones would come out of the windows to take pics.......Then they would speed off with a bunch of arms out the window waving in...

I was going to just use an M36 A2C (16 foot) bed originally........Then I did some measuring. 17' 6" from the back of the cab aft to stern of the frame with no bumperetts. So my overall length is about 18 feet. Then we measured the rear axle width. It is wider than 8 feet or 96 inches by about...

While that would be awesome.......Tillie only likes to go about 35 MPH.......She will creep up toward 45 if you throw her off a cliff. And she is a rough ridin SOB. So not a good recovery vehicle in the modern age.......But a cool idea.

Here is some more of "Tillie the toiler". I will likely never find the original box for the back of the truck. But we will keep looking. I have a flatbed stakeside bed with troop seats to put on. It is a modern bed for hauling containers and such. But I can make it look old with some creative...

Some of my Pics from the show and show prep.

You mean Tillie was not the oldest truck at the show?.......Blasphemy I tell you. Ha Ha.

I've got 3 5 tons now that I want to do the turbo upgrade to. One of them a wrecker waiting in barstow for some parts to be added before we haul A$$ for home. I realy like all the good info in the thread. Thank you all for the constructive information provided and all the tips and tricks. It...

Some of my favorite pics.

Your proposal of a regional rally has been discussed amongst the MVCC. It is a LARGE undertaking that requires a lot of logistics, planning, support and funding. All things that will be worked out in due time. But it takes time to properly build an event like that. The airshow in and of...

Unfortunately we can't have that conversation with the engine builder....... He lives in Elizabeth now. He is a really good guy. We had been doing business with him since he was building motors out of his garage on Oakland St. in Aurora over 20 years ago. He got a big shop over by Stapleton...