I fell in love with Big Chevy Trucks when I was small, & used to stay with my grandparents. At the time, they were heating their home with coal, & would order it from a local Coal Co. The coal delivery truck that would deliver the coal was a 1951 Chevrolet COE(I later found this same truck in a Salvage yard after I was grown up). When they converted to fuel oil, the delivery truck was a 1955 Chevrolet LCF fuel truck. I loved those two old trucks. I found the '55 LCF about 10 years ago on a Farm, but it had been flipped over on it's side, so the trans. could be removed, & badly damaged. So I was biten by the bug, at an early age. Even though my dad gave me a 1951 Chevy 1/2 ton, when I was 12, that I fixed up, the Big Bolts were always what I thrived for. Started buying them, as soon as I could. My first big bolt was a low milage 1949 Chevrolet 4400 series flatbed, that i bought when I was 22 years old. Then a couple of years later,I found my first fixable COE. From that point, until recently, I was out of control buying them. So now some, 28, or 29 COE's, & 8 LCF's later, here I am.


Spanky Hardy
Collector Of Fine Old G.M. COE Trucks & Antique Holmes Wreckers

1948 Chevrolet 5700 COE Holmes HD W35 Wrecker
In the Stovebolt Gallery
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1950 GMC 250 1-Ton
In the Stovebolt Gallery