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Well, here they are. I thought ya might like to see what the new twins look like. Let me introduce you to: Milton (forground) and Burris (further back). I have already found some parts that are going to make them look a lot better, and definately glass before winter.

http://www.redemerconcepts.com/truck/twins.jpg

A couple of people wanted to see um, so delete this topic when you want Stovebolt leaders! Thanks.

Their beautiful, Im having a hard time finding 1 and youve got 2! Im jealous!

Keep us posted I love these trucks.

Jeff

Nice trucks Tomcoe. Thanks for posting them, & welcome to the COE Fraternity. See mine here, http://www.classiccoe.com/spanky.htm

Looks like it's "hammer time" on some fenders. At least you have fenders to straighten. Nice trucks,
Scott

Thank you guys. Now I just wish I had more time to tinker. Spanky, it looks like you are trying to corner the market on COEs! Beautiful trucks guys!

I know where one of these 600 series GMC trucks is sitting, awesome condition, not running here in the middle of CA if anybody wants the lead. The hunt goes on here in CA. I came across 2 other 46 COEs and was excited, but distance worked to their benefit and once I arranged a meeting with their owner I found out they were previous "spray rigs" for orange trees....translation: beat to heck, welded on, no doors or windows etc. basically a reduced to neglected tractors.

I may end up with a couple of extra fenders if so I will get them into the swap area if somebody needs um.

Thought I would quickly tell you guys my bring home story....they aren't runnin. One of um showed up on a trailer, hauled by the guy I bought um from. He had it on a gooseneck trailer about waist hi...tall sucker. He said his winch brake was broken so it was going to have to "roll off". Well, I live on a 200 ft hill for starters....so I was the lucky "jockey" who got to ride it out. No seat. No brakes. Non-working clutch even if there was a seat. Soooo. I feel like I'm sitin' in a two story building, um correction, squating that is (no seat). Just like a classic roller coaster ride, I feel the slip axel trailer swaying slightly back and forth as the wheels moved forward and out from under the middle of the trailer. Then....clink...the horizon became a very good view of the ground and down I went like a shot. As I headed for our very steep driveway, my beautiful wife started tossing blocks and I began trying to turn a sharp 90 and did finally come to a stop. I wiped off the sweat, did a quick check of my drawers and everything was OK. LOL. Now their home and the fun starts. Seems like these old truck things are catching?? Things are changing...I seem to desire more... Why can't we just want one? See you guys later.

Is the old oarnge chevy by the coes yours also

ya, it is a 50 2 ton. Neat truck, no motor. It has been there for a long time, but may have to give up his space for more cabovers if more present themselves.

Hey Tomcoe, Tell me more about the 600 series GMC. Is it a COE also.

Ya, it looks like the big one I saw among your treasures...almost identical (only light metalic blue). I couldn't see the back of your cab, but it is very wide, looks like factory welded in several spots using several panels to make the back of the cab, and has two windows in the back along with the corner ones just like yours. It is a 48 with paperwork. Quite long, probably longer than yours. It is maybe a 16 foot wheelbase. No real rust that I could see and the sheetmetal is awesome. Steps look like a factory job of older diamond plate stuff. Does have a flatbed on the back that is even longer! Better have a helocopter to get it to NC. Sweet truck, just a little too large for me. Price....I have a friend that offered 200 (older lady whos husband recently died and needs to clean up). I don't know that she will take it, but she does need it gone. Let me know if anybody want the number. I don't think she would mind. Probably should be a 1 at a time email thing if anybody is interested as opposed to putting her number on the net without her knowing it.

Like the unloading scene great mental imagery

nice trucks.

-W

those are nice trucks

Thanks everyone!...they are my kids.

Well, as a few of you may have read in another of the threads, another Art Deco has joined our family. This is Everett. He is far enough along that I believe this is a clean the tank, etc, etc and he should run. We'll see.

http://www.redemerconcepts.com/truck/everett.jpg

Everett, looks great Tomcoe. I was told about a Art Deco COE, out in the woods, on a farm, about 15 miles from me. Got to go check it out.

This body style sure grows on a person. They just look so....antique...no....mean...unusual..maybe that is it? Check it out and let me know what you find out!

Well, I can't believe it. I looked for an Art Deco for 8 months, driving around covering rural countrysides with my wife like we were plowing fields, back and forth, binoculars in the car everywhere we went, and couldn't find a thing.

Now in the last 2 months, I have found 4?? What happened? Here is a picture of the most recent...Watson. Awesome 41 early short wheelbase and pretty well optioned.

Oh, and I have to say, I do have the coolest wife. She has been completely supportive throughout the whole thing. They say it was just a "crushed aorta" and I'm almost able to swallow comfortably again.....


http://www.redemerconcepts.com/truck/watson.jpg

Nice looking trucks, they should keep you busy for awhile! The grilles on Everett and Watson look really nice, very clean. And it looks like you're cornering the market on Art Deco COEs.

Have fun!

Nice, "Very Nice", Time for a group picture Tomcoe.

Kinda hard to get them all in, but here is the best group shot I could get for now.


http://www.redemerconcepts.com/truck/groupshot.jpg

Thanks !

Tomcoe, You are defineately a man after my own heart. Hey, whats better than one coe.....4! Congradulations on your successful hunting. They are awesome. Bill

Wow Bill, What a beautiful cabover! I got lost looking at the restoration pics when I'm supposed to be working! I can only aspire to turn one of mine into something that beautiful...great job!

Thanks, I had a blast restoring my first truck and have a soft spot for these old COE's. What are your plans for all those great trucks? I had originally thought I would just get mine running decent when I bought it and everytime I took something apart the project just grew and grew. Next thing you know it was in hundreds of pieces.

Hey Tomcoe, Nice looking trucks, I know what you mean about wanting more. I have the same addiction. Although, I am not into the COE's yet.
I am going to finally set aside some time this fall and post mine in the gallery and update my profile.

It's kinda like poker, you got a nice pair, but you'd rather have three of a kind.

Good luck, and keep us posted.

John

Bill, The only plan in effect is collect at the moment..

I suspect I will sell several as I really only waannneeed..a couple. I would like to have a truck to use for fun, dump etc. I think I will go 350/700R4, PS, PB with this fun truck but keep it completely stock looking right down to the shifter linkage. We'll have to see if I can get everything to work right. I would like to completely restore another like you have done, 100% original. A third idea is to make a tool storage shed out of a third (rust bucket I have my eyes on) fashioned after the Jeepers Creepers Van. Just a static van/shed on wheels.

John, what a great analogy with the poker statement. I'm gonna steal that one...neat! and right on the money.

Well, whatever way you go, I'm sure you will have a blast and you have guite a collection already (on your way to a full house or 5 of a kind maybe!).
On another note maybe I could ask you for a favor. If you noticed when you were checking out my pic's, I sort of fashioned the cable assembly for the reverse shifter on my truck. To this day I have never seen the way it wouls have come from the factory, either the assemby at the shifter or how it connects to the transmission. When you get a chance I would love some pic's of this set up. No hurry.
Again, congrats on a very cool collection.

All this Art Deco COE talk, & pictures here lately,(along with my recent purchase of a Art Deco, conventional Wrecker) has got me wanting one for the first time. I've been strictly a '47-'55 COE guy through the years(with the exception of a few '55-'57, & '60-'66 LCF's I had). I went to look at a '41-'46 COE a week ago, that I was told about, that was only 10 miles away. Problem was, I couldn't get anywhere near it, for the overgrowth of weeds, Kudzu vines, & everything else that was in the way. I'll have to wait for a couple of Frost to come, before I can get to it. Winter time, is the best time around here, for Old car, & truck rescue missions. I'd rather have a Heavy Duty Art Deco GMC COE, if possible. I want to install a Antique Heavy Duty Holmes W35 Wrecker unit on one. I'm thinking about a 1939 Heavy Duty GMC 600 series COE, that i've seen, but we're far apart on the price right now.

Spanky,

If you ever get up this way, I know of a conventional Art Deco with a wrecker body on back. It spent it's life in a "junk" yard. The seller could not find the title. The new owner does not want to put up the bond for the title, so this running truck is just sitting in his back yard. New owner spent a pile of money on new brakes on all four corners. I have looked this truck over and it is nice shape.

No..it is not mine..I am not sellling it. I wish I could buy it, but would have to sleep in it if I did.

Hey, 46 in progress, Get a picture of that Wrecker for me, if you can. I'd like to see it, even if it's not For Sale.

So what area of the country are all of you guess located that you are finding all of the great old COE's?

Chevman, I'm in North Carolina, & Art Deco('41-early '47) COE's a few, & far between, in this area of the country.

I'm in California. This seems to be good hunting due to all the agriculture I guess. They are still quite hard to find anywhere you go since they didn't make that many really relative to the conventional ones.

I've got COE eyes now, it's a disease. Whats funny is old horse trailers get me every time now when I'm out looking. I think the rounded fronts of those type trailers look like the Deco COE hoods. Never fails...that split second excitement...nope...horse trailer.

My Great GrandFather had a pasture full of coe's as a kid I always wanted one but when he passed my gold diggin aunt sold all of them for scrap he must of had a dozen some of them were complete and some had been parted out but there was enough there to build at least 6 complete trucks.

Bill, I never replied to your favor. I will be happy to. Let me work it in to my schedule. We work for ourselves and too much it seems. When I get a chance I will see who is the best for the picture and snap you a few.

BDS1956, "A pasture full of Cabovers"...sounds like the second thing I will see.

1. Meet Son of God. 2. Check out the pasture full of cabovers....

Sure would be nice to go back in time and do a COE rescue mission wouldn't it?..or be the guy buying them for scrap?

Thanks Tom, whenever you get a chance-no hurry. My arrangement works, but it would be cool to have it original.
I have had that thought about going back in time and coe's too. How about standing at the end of the assembly line watching those beautiful art deco's foll off.
O.K. I'm awake now.
"A pasture full of Cabovers", man that just kills me.
Bill

There were several of those in a junk yard around here that got cleaned out several years ago, after the old guy who owned it died. I'm sure they didn't get crushed, but I have no idea where they went.

Man if I could go back I would have got all of them he used them to hual hay and farm supplies he had several other old chevys most of them were pre 1950.I think I have a pic of his pasture if I can find it I will post it on here.

If you can find that picture, you would be the man! I would think I speak for all of us COE nuts when I say don't scale it down too much. I'll deal with a slow download for a bigger pic.