The Stovebolt Site Forums The Parking Lot Big Bolts I want to see how many others have a large collection.

I started with one truck and now I have like 10 to 15 trucks of all ages and sizes. I just wanted to see how many others have the addiction like I do. Here are some pictures of my trucks.
Thanks
Brad

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As long as you're counting non runners and parts trucks, I think I have 9.
I don't have a Photobucket account, so no pics. Sorry.

Brad,

I don't have that many trucks (only have 5), but looking at your trucks I really like your '56 6400 Holmes 515 Wrecker, to me that's a classic...it even has the 540 Axle Cradle. Do you have all of the hardware to use the cradle?

Whether you have one or 50 trucks this hobby does get under your skin...it is a sickness we all share...lol

Mike B

Mike is right, it is kind of a sickness.
And the bigger the truck or car, the more I like it.
Also, don't get me started on anvils.
Back up to ten over 75 pounds.
Having a wife that like these things also, does not help.

Don K

Wasn't sure till I counted them, but I have 11 Trucks.

All Chevrolet between '62 and '72 and one non-Chevy Wrecker.

Here are some of mine. Just about all of them run. Only the ones with air brakes can I count on stopping.

https://picasaweb.google.com/112636930370126476644/LargerGMCTrucks

The 550 GMC in front of the tanker is what started my obsession with trucks over a half a century ago.

some good looking collections! if I had more space Im sure I would have a stash myself

Mike B, I Don't have the forks for the cradle on this one but I have some from another truck. And 2 ton I am the same way the bigger and stranger the better it is. All my friends want the pick ups and I take the 1 tons and bigger. You guys make me feel a little better because I think I may have too many sometimes.
Thanks
Brad

I think I enjoy more, to save them from the scrap yards.
Maybe sell them latter, for about the same money, to someone that will save them.
Like I tell the wife, this hobby keeps me out of the bars and we have plenty of room to park them. Several, she does not even know about.
Got a 52 M-37 to Big John at the Homecoming last spring, just as an example.

Don

Hy guys, I too enjoy saving larger "unpopular" trucks from the scrap man, I know I have over fifty, but I'm afraid to actually count how many I have. Hopefully someone will want to restore some of them as I will not live long enough to do that, but they haven't been scrapped.

....3B, as I remember you probably have 50 in one barn! Trucks sitting on the back of other trucks! Trucks trucks trucks! Way to go Bobb.

I don't suppose I will ever restore a truck to show. I'm more interested into getting them back into the condition they were when I drove them over a half a century ago. My first semi had a bench seat like a pickup. My first Diesel was a 64 Int. cabover. I'm building 1 out of two. I am keeping the spring ride Bostrom seat and rubber pad Hendrickson suspension just to remind myself of how it was when I started. I bought 3 firetrucks very cheap. I am using the cabs from them for a 550 tractor, 550 gin pole truck and 600 wrecker. The 2 tons run, but I don't care to mess with the hydraulic brakes. They were farm trucks that would have been scrapped. I have had lots of offers from guys looking for a cab and motor, but I just don't like cutting them. I guess it is because I can remember many years of hauling grain out of elevators and watching the line of field trucks unloading. I was a 20 year old kid when I started doing this and in those days the farmers let their daughters drive the field trucks to the elevator. This made it even more interesting. When I was 27, I married a farmer's daughter. And her father had a 52 GMC field truck.

I had large collections of trucks, and cars for many years until I realized, one day,that I was never going to finish one, as long as I was working on 4, or 5 at a time. I've accomplished more the last 2, or 3 yrs with a small collection, than I did in 20 yrs with a large collection.

I too have a collection that has fluctuated over the years. Currently I'm at 14 trucks from 77 to 51.

http://s1204.photobucket.com/user/tri5trucking/library/?sort=6&page=1

My collection started in 1992 with a free truck which I still have.

Only have maybe 8? Big bolts
The rest are baby trucks
Total over 20, prob closer to 30.

Pics sorta hard to gather. Overwhelming.
Try customclassics.org and dig around.
Not updated in years.

Out of all these fine trucks nary a Studebaker. Not even one. My big trucks: one Corn Binder, one Screamin Jimme 6-71, and one Sillybaker. I love variety.

I have a 1959 Studebaker 4E11 pickup.

Between my Father, Son and I we have
4 pickups,
1 470D 3ton diesel GMC dump truck,
1 1.5 ton GMC Dump truck,
1 1 ton Chevy Panel Truck,
1 GMC 650 Diesel,
2 2 ton chevy Grain Trucks,
1 46 Spartan Manor Trailer,

This is all our Advanced Design stuff plus one cool old trailer. No they are not fixed up. Working on the kid's 1/2 ton finally though.

There are of course other trucks and cars out there but they are more donor cars for engines suspension etc. Can't wait to fix up that 455 rocket to put in my 1 ton Panel truck.

This thread popped up in a Guest's search. This is a very old thread (2015) but still fun to see the trucks. Obviously this is before we had the image posting deal.

Fun looking.

Here is an album of old vehicles and machinery that I have accumulated over the years. I hardly ever sell anything except for the stuff I owned in the 1960's and 1970's. Most of them run. The ones with air brakes stop. Most of the hydraulic brakes don't work. I am now 79 years old and I just don't get around to fixing much any more.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/e1g65WUksiDnawsX7

Ameritowruston It is a tremendous disease,5 AD ,2 modern,just the batteries add up. Have 2 rat-mobile parts frames that drive and stop,oh missed 2 winch truck and another rat- mobile,engine pile is 235,235,261,261 short block,307,305,nother 235,283 block,350 block never stop though !!! Starter pile,carb pile,alt. pile just goes on .