If you like Vintage car transport pictures, this link is for you ....

[BigDad]

Someone here will need some quiet time to go thru these

http://pinterest.com/eymansays/car-haulers/

[BigDad]

[mustang13]

I would follow that Pinterest page right to the end of the earth. Good Find D. Anyone BSers that want to follow my Pinterest albums, look me up under Jeremy D. George.

...And I was kinda fond of this one. Never saw a front loader before.

[DanStokes]

Pretty cool! I'm old enough to remember many of those on the road.

Dan

[mustang13]

Them-thar sure is alota Jeeps!

[mustang13]

I WANT everything on the trailer

[BigDad]

This just looks like 1958-59 by looking only at the truck driver

[Brian Lohnes]

Sweet mother of mercy.

[BigDad]

Took yah long enough !

[BOOOGHAR]

bitchin stuff

on a side note, can someone school me on pinterest

[mustang13]

I sent you an invite via Pinterest Charles. It's a photo posting site, you'll be hooked, and a great place to get your pic's seen. It links through FB.

[BOOOGHAR]

so its like instagram then ?

[Monk]

Yeah.....old enough to remember these old transports.
Was a big deal when one of these would roll into town.

Good stuff.

[Barry Donovan]

Pretty cool! I'm old enough to remember many of those on the road.

Dan

I got thinking of my dad with these.
as humble as the fifties go, he got a ride as a little boy..late mid 50s. I did not know the exact rig, but that it was tanker, long base.. kinda like the scary duel truck.

he started driving when I was born, 1973..
his realm was 250-290, 300, 350, 425, 450, 475, 500, now a 50 psi 280 inch wheelbase w900 with a 550..

I am only 39, and started off as a boy with the 290, all the way to florida in a leaf spring cabover. 60s mph down a hill...dropping a ten speed all the way to the splitter in the hills (5th gear or less) spewing the coal. the pipe was always my side, I used to catch its shadow in the thickness of the smoke.

worth collecting, as nightmarish as those machines were.. it is history. the backwards brake function years.. alot of nightmares and danger. as the saying goes "men were men".

manual steering..imagine manual steering with a car on top of the damn cab?
holy crap.

my dad had a few of those years. the "hulk hogan" years.(he had quite a set of pipes on him)

[Deaf Bob]

As did my dad... Arms to die for... Then he retired..
My fondest memories, him playing the harmonica, or whistling, reaching thru the steering wheel, shifting one lever up, the other down.. 15-25 mph hairpins way up in the coast range 1958 Pete...
His last truck sure was fancy! Air ride everything one shifter many gears.. Over the road in 14 western states, poles, bridge beams, glue lamms for highschool gyms