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A 1976 model for sale at ATHS site: http://forums.aths.org/184140/1976-white-western-star-4965-day-cab#bm184151

I know a guy who used to be a wing man on an Oshkosh plow truck. It was a two man crew, one drove and the other operated the plow levers. He said that by the time you hit the third mailbox, you're laughing so hard that you can't hang on to the levers anymore. .

I believe I have seen somewhere that the LH was a lightweight model, possibly like an LJ with light parts on it, aimed at the western market. I suppose that when the LTL came out, it took most of the sales away from the LH.

Although it looks like the letter M, I think the notation states LHSW. Not a lot of those were built.

Great picture ! Possibly a B-77 turnpike cruiser ?

I remember the first DM-800 I saw. I met it on the road and my jaw was dropped.

Honda worked on a spark-less two stroke engine quite a few years ago - although they still needed to have spark at idle RPM's. I never heard of it going into production. A conventional two stroke under the right conditions can continue to run with the ignition turned off. That led Honda to the experiments with it. http://dwolsten.tripod.com/articles/jan97.html

Dodge C models.

I think it is time for you to write a B-model book.

I would guess cost was a major influence in the design of the B cab versus the L. The B styling was more modern at the time, going away from the boxy look of the 30's. Does anyone have a price listing for a B70 series that would show a price difference of the optional L cab?

Craftsman won't be gone, the tools will still be sold in Sears stores, only owned by a different company. The bad part is that there are fewer and fewer Sears stores left. As said you could get almost anything at Sears. Near here some years back, a family bought an empty home for a summer place. They needed everything for the home, which would have been a big job to aquire. So they contacted Sears and they took care of everything. The Sears vehicles came and put in the drapes and carpet. Brought all the furniture and appliances, TV and stereo systems, and installed everything. Towels and bedding, pots and pans and utensils - everything and anything that would be in a house was supplied by Sears.

I meant the Mack company box trailer. It looks like it could have come from the era when Mack was building trailers.

The Chevy wrecker is a 65. I wonder if that is a Mack built trailer.

The sleeper is ahead of the drivers feet. If you want to see more on them, they have been talked about here before - and on other old truck forums and a Wheels of Time article. They were made for the Guy M. Turner Company. Power was an English Gardner diesel.

Very nice. North America is a beautiful place.

Is this you Swish?

Cell phones.

It would be good to carry a couple gallons of gas in a can until you are sure the fuel gauge is working right.

Okay, but using that line of thought, it cannot be said that he is doing good things or will do good either.

It's too bad it doesn't still have the gas motor, then it would be really rare. Gas powered trucks in the series are not seen.

Here is a tough looking one. With a Farr air cleaner and possibly an 8-71. I always liked the late 1960's larger D-models, but there weren't many of them. I can recall seeing only one with tandem axles, a straight truck. It had a black vinyl roof like was seen on some of the deluxe Dodge pickups at that time.

Rick on Just Old Trucks has just gotten a pair of CF trucks out of a building where they have been since CF went under.

As said, that is an incorrect year for the truck. According to the Dodge Trucks book it is a 58, 59, or 60 model. The cab was used on the low-cab-forward C model and then the Bighorn until Dodge quit building large trucks in 1975. The dump truck is a conventional D model and those used a different cab from 1961 onward. There were no heavy duty and few medium conventionals built after the LCF C model came out.

A politician's promises. Revisit the list in four years.

The curse has been broken! The thread continues !