1961H67

I Love It !

THANKS for the Pictures,,, A good start to Spring!

PM send about some L parts , Thank You

I’m just glad the truck is getting saved so our younger generations can see it,Hopefully there are some kids that will appreciate it , My Grandson is all into old trucks and trains, he may have no desire for them when he’s older but he’s still been given the opportunity to know what built this Nation! Many Thanks to Gary for being able to save a piece of history!

I just watched the video! Great,, I hope it gets restored !

Vald , Thank you for the information. Hopefully I can make a connection about it, or another set of fenders , I’m making pretty good progress on the doors, I’ll keep chipping away.

I think Dad might have had a book with some old pictures of North Carolina trucking company’s ,, I found these with some old pictures. Hopefully they will show up enough to read the caption. I promise I’ll stop chasing Rabbits! And get back on topic !

Thanks for the Trailer sleeper pictures ! Unreal what those guys did back in the day compared to today’s trucking. The picture I have ( when I find it) had a small door in the left front, I’m unsure how they got in ,but it shows a guy laying in it with the door open and the driver standing beside it, I think it had some sort of a flag that if he needed to stop the driver could see it in the mirror. I even heard they tried a suspended rope system in the nose of the trailer at one point. I have never seen a picture of the one under the trailer! These all make the 24 or 28 bunks look like a King Size!

A little more sanding, a little more priming,, beautiful day today.

Great Reading! I think the sleeper mattress in my H Model is 24 inch,, but all those are better than the trailer with the sleeper in the nose, My Dad had a picture of one, I’m sure I could find it here somewhere . The old sleepers are interesting to me.

I saw a YouTube video on this LJ ,, it was posted about 5 years ago. It looks like the truck was being parted out, the video may have been taken in NE Pennsylvania. If anyone recognizes it please let me know, Here is a screenshot of the video, Many Thanks. Dean

I’m glad you answered his question, I remembered you having to repair yours.

I bought a gallon, this is the brand. I have used aircraft stripper in the past, it also worked well, I don’t think any of them works as good as they used to ( probably took the “Good “ stuff out of it!)

I never realized the doors had so many holes, I think it had another set of mirrors, I’m not a expert on “West Coast Mirrors “ but I don’t think they got popular until the late 50s . And I think the welding co that had it before we got it had warning signs on the doors ,,,anyway I’ll weld them up at keep going.

This was the outcome after steam cleaning , now I have a bunch of small holes to weld up where another set of mirrors were installed. The paint stripper worked pretty good.