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Nice wagon behind the B-Model,looks right at home! there was a similar Great Dane beside the road near me with a "putt-putt" reefer unit still on it,i stopped to see if a could find out who it belonged to,but never could find anybody around,it's gone now,prolly in the scrapyard or beercans by now.........................Mark

That's a damn shame! that would have made a great hobby/play-toy truck,hard enough to find a decent Cruiseliner,let alone a single axle...........................Mark

Are you shitting me? parting out? WTF? that is WAY too clean a truck to think about cutting apart,bumper and grille surround are worth their weight in gold alone!..............................................Mark

Shit like that pisses me off! especially when there's no reason for it!..................................Mark

Lol! never thought of the quarters in the glad hands! only "dirty trick" I ever pulled once,i was trying to back into the ONLY available spot left in a truckstop one night (raining like pouring piss out of a boot) and sure enough,the Werner supertrucker next to me is in the bunk,fast asleep with his highbeams and fog-lights on! My solution was to paint all the bothersome lights with a can of rubberized undercoating,worked great! once the heat cured the stuff.it turned into Titanium and I was able to see to back in!

I also had some friendly folks take my un-done laundry out of the washing machine and throw it on the floor, my solution for that was to go back outside,fill a large drink cup with the nastiest fifth wheel grease I could find,and add it to their laundry as a special thank you!..............................Mark

Mike,put me on the list for a western R-Model just in case you need the room!.....................................Mark

Some nice stuff in line for that auction! couple really nice A-Cars,and trucking memorabilia....................................Mark

From what I was told by an ex-Brockway factory branch sales rep., they were an extra cost factory option (the grille guards) I have one I saved from a junkyard in South Jersey with "PN" on it (Port Norris Express- Port Norris,NJ) I always admired the craftsmanship on the grille guards,not many things like that made anymore........................................Mark

Orville made sleeper cabs for several different truck manufacturers,including (but not limited to) Autocar,Brockway,GMC,Chevrolet,Diamond reo,T,International Harvester and quite a few more........................................Mark

Ernie,do you remember the Turnpike had a couple of these Oshkoshs? probly long gone by now,but i remember seeing them at the maint.yard down by New Brunswick..............................Mark

Very cool Paul! thanks for posting the pictures,that GMC-6 was pretty popular,the same guy that had the Nomad I told you about also had a 40' Studebaker coupe with a 6 in it,only saw it once and remember it had a set of Clifford Research headers on it and sounded great! I wish I had taken more pictures at Atco and Englishtown back then..........................Mark

Lol! not exactly sure if you can even sell your soul twice? (there's a lien on it now Lol!)sounds like an awesome car,be real hard fro me to give up something with that much family history anyway! any "back in the day" pictures?..............................Mark

Paul,bring the 55" i'll give it a good foster home! you're not that far from me,and you can come visit it anytime you want,deal? Lol!...............................Mark

Nice! man,that truck is sharp! sits really nice too! thanks for posting the pictures..............................Mark

Vinny? Vinny?.....................WTF? thought he'd be all over this one! looks like a decent truck................................Mark

Damn! a Safari? I got one similar,my Grandad had a 56' 150 Handyman wagon,cut it apart at the firewall and made an orchard truck out of it! That is indeed the AMT kit,an original issue, I've had seems like forever!...............................Mark

I've seen them cooking in a big aluminum pot with a propane tank hooked to it,thought it looked a little dangerous myself,just wondered if the payoff was worth the effort.........................Mark

Like to add my wishes to everyone for a safe and happy Thanksgiving! BTW,never had fried turkey (really) what am I missing?.........................................Mark

Awsome! I've always loved the Nomad as a Gasser/drag car still kick myself in the ass for not buying an ex-gasser that ran at Atco,NJ in the seventies,about the closest I came was a model I built of the car some years later. I could have bought the streetable chassis (less the engine/trans.) in 1982 for $1300.00!...............................Mark

Being a "GM Man" I like the GS Buicks too!.................................Mark