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| | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 | Spanky found this one next door, is there anything special that i should look for.. holmes | | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,987 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,987 | What year F**d is under that? I know it's not a Bolt, but, hey, an old truck is an old truck, right? Especially a big one. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 595 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 595 | it looks like a 58', 58'-60' are very similar. 57' has same sheetmetal but only 1 headlight, 58'-60' has 2. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 | That's a Holmes Heavy Duty W35. Should be a Holmes ID Plate located on the passenger side mast upright. Get me the serial number, from this plate, & I can give you the date of manufacture. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 | Thanks spanky will look for it and post it here. don't know for sure what i might use it for but would sure be handy to move a few things around. any thing i should look for in the operation of it? | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 | Spanky..would this W35 be a predosessor of the 500 or perhaps 600 series? Sure looks like one. I used to sell Century wreckers back in the 80's for a while and we traded for a ton of Holmes iron. A boatload of 440's for sure. Then it went wheellift and rollbacks.
Just curious. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 | The Holmes W35, & W45 Heavy Duty Wreckers, were replaced by the Holmes Heavy Duty 650, & 850 Wrecker units. The W35's, & W45's are much Heavier units, than the Holmes 500, & 600 units. The last W35, was manufactured in June, of 1952, & the last W45, was manufactured in March of 1954. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,186 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,186 | | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 | Hi 55,, it sits next door to me.. he was not home last night so could not get any numbers will try again after work, don't like wondering around when nobody is home.. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 | Spanky.. the tag is in real bad shape, from what we could make out it has TENNE HOLMES W35 00443 hard to see don't know if thats enough numbers | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 | Thanks will go back over and take another look, but like i said the tag is in bad shape, will take a pencil over and see if i can trace it out. thanks again for the help | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 394 | went back and looked at the ID plate, could not make out any of the numbers. so its a guess to what year it is. thanks for the help, still discussing price | | |
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