Popular Post autocardc Posted April 20, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) This is only one of three Diamond Reo’s I have seen operating in St. Louis, the other two are tandem axles set up as a dump and block truck. Edited April 20, 2019 by autocardc 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobert62 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 They where made local here in Harrisburg, Pa. idk if they where made other places or not. My scrapper buddies have one with a v8 air cooled deutz. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autocardc Posted April 20, 2019 Author Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) They were also manufactured in Michigan, they were popular up there in the 70s through the 90s. Edited April 20, 2019 by autocardc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h67st Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 19 hours ago, Hobert62 said: They where made local here in Harrisburg, Pa. idk if they where made other places or not. My scrapper buddies have one with a v8 air cooled deutz. So that was a transplant, or did they ever offer a Deutz in an American truck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 22 minutes ago, h67st said: So that was a transplant, or did they ever offer a Deutz in an American truck? A local fellow bought a Diamond Reo with an oem installed air cooled Deutz and ran it in his tipper fleet. Don't have a picture of the exact truck but it looked like this one. 2 Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobert62 Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 If I remember the story right a local garage here “A&L diesel” was a reo dealer and somehow got hooked up with the Harrisburg plant building gliders. Supposedly they where the ones that started putting the air cooled motors in for them. I heard this through story from old timers so it my not be 100% correct. I think from my understanding the diamond reo’s where mostly made as per ordered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autocardc Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 James d. Morrissey from Philadelphia ran mixers just like the truck j. Hancock posted above with air cooled deutz’s. Here is a pic from google. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullheaded Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 (edited) On 4/20/2019 at 12:52 PM, autocardc said: They were also manufactured in Michigan, they were popular up there in the 70s through the 90s. That would explain it. I grew up on the Canadian side of the Michigan border and I remember there being many Diamond Reo's and Autocars working there. Even now I still see old steel nose Autocar's still working over there as dump trucks, log trucks and pulling live bottom's. Where in Michigan? Wasn't it Lansing? Edited April 22, 2019 by Bullheaded 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TS7 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Diamond Reo quite in 75-76. That mixer is a Giant. There story has been posted here by Kscarbel. T-Line is what is left of Diamond Reo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autocardc Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 Bullheaded, it was indeed in Lansing. Would love for you to post some pictures of the autocars you still see in Michigan. Go to Michigan every summer on the southwest side and do not see any older autocars any more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullheaded Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Thanks autocardc. I'll try. But I'm not over there often any more. I used to haul wood chips and bark to and from Michigan but I'm not doing that any more. Where I see them is the upper peninsula. The Sault, Newberry, Macelona, Munising, Escanaba, Gwinn, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 (edited) White Motor combined Diamond T and REO creating the name Diamond REO on May 1, 1967 and ended production at the REO plant in Lansing MI in mid 1975. I am not sure of the exact years but the Osterman Company of Carlisle PA built the Diamond REO Giant from about 1979 to the mid 90's. The word Giant was added after a court discussion with Volvo. The Deutz air cooled was factory installed engine until the late 80,s when it would no longer meet US emissions limits. When Osteman went out of business some of the Osterman people continued in Harrisburg as the T-Line trucks of today. Edited April 29, 2019 by Brocky 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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