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| | | Forums66 Topics128,069 Posts1,055,890 Members48,428 | | Most Online14,466 Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
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on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down with Ads! Again, thanks! | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 242 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 242 | Well, after much anticipation, (this is worse then being a kid on Christmas morning) my "new" truck is coming to its new home at the end of the month.....................finally. yeah  Grand Poohbah I bet your REALLY jealuos now......... Yes I know it is not a Stovebolt, but it is BIG, size does matter.............. Billy Marlow, thanks for the lead on the truck hauler http://mysite.verizon.net/vzerpjfs/generalphotoalbum 1942 G5106 1.5-ton Chevy cargo dump Gallery pageOld Dominion Stovebolt Society T/Sgt. Gott (28 years of service with the USPP) 1940 Chevy G506 4112 cargo dump 1942 Diamond T G509 969A 4 ton wrecker 1942 Ward LaFrance G116 series 2 10 ton wrecker 1944 Ward LaFrance G116 series 5 10 ton wrecker 1931 Ford AA with a WEAVER crane 1944 Sterling HC 165 tractor 1944 Autocar U7144T w/ 10 ton trailer
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,144 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,144 | | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,878 . | | . Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,878 | I like it! looks pretty clean and straight, and unique. I can't say I have consciously seen a military Diamond T truck that still looks like a Diamond T, and not just like the next one made by Mack, or whoever,
And it's a wrecker!
Grigg | | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,399 Camp Commandant | | Camp Commandant Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,399 | Sweet truck John! You know, if I show Jen the picture she is going to want to drive that one too.
I'm glad Les could help you out, hes a good guy. Get lots of pics of your new trucks new home coming. Billy | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 863 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 863 | As I own 3 Dodge M37's......I'm downright Jealous... NICE, I love it! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 | Nice Military Holmes W45 Wrecker. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 242 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 242 | Hey Spanky, I like all those wreckers, guess I know who to go to if I have a question.. Billy, I would be honored if Jen, drove the truck, just a 5 speed, and we can strap the grand poobah to the boom in the back while he is smoking a big dominican...............
John 1942 G5106 1.5-ton Chevy cargo dump Gallery pageOld Dominion Stovebolt Society T/Sgt. Gott (28 years of service with the USPP) 1940 Chevy G506 4112 cargo dump 1942 Diamond T G509 969A 4 ton wrecker 1942 Ward LaFrance G116 series 2 10 ton wrecker 1944 Ward LaFrance G116 series 5 10 ton wrecker 1931 Ford AA with a WEAVER crane 1944 Sterling HC 165 tractor 1944 Autocar U7144T w/ 10 ton trailer
| | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 | You'll strap me no place, Sir!
And Jealous? Not on your life! Heck, I had one that looked just like that a year or so ago, but it was boring so I had it crushed. It's now our coffee table. Jealous my foot.
I am NOT jealous.
Nope. Not me. No way.
:p John
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 242 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 242 | Billy; Do you think I hit a nerve with guess who, you would think the former marine would like Olive Drab... 1942 G5106 1.5-ton Chevy cargo dump Gallery pageOld Dominion Stovebolt Society T/Sgt. Gott (28 years of service with the USPP) 1940 Chevy G506 4112 cargo dump 1942 Diamond T G509 969A 4 ton wrecker 1942 Ward LaFrance G116 series 2 10 ton wrecker 1944 Ward LaFrance G116 series 5 10 ton wrecker 1931 Ford AA with a WEAVER crane 1944 Sterling HC 165 tractor 1944 Autocar U7144T w/ 10 ton trailer
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,276 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,276 | Man 42Chevy that is more than cool it’s classic cool! I love that grill the only thing that would make it better is if it were a dump truck “sorry Spanky we all have our own hang-ups” but really that is a cool truck. I have a friend on another web site that is a collector of old military trucks and I am going to send him a link to your photos. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 242 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 242 | Heavy Hauler; already have a dump, my 1940 Chevy 1 1/2 ton. Always liked the look of those GMC grilles, many years ago I had a '64 GMC 3/4 ton p/u, should never have sold it................
thanks for the comments
John Gott 1942 G5106 1.5-ton Chevy cargo dump Gallery pageOld Dominion Stovebolt Society T/Sgt. Gott (28 years of service with the USPP) 1940 Chevy G506 4112 cargo dump 1942 Diamond T G509 969A 4 ton wrecker 1942 Ward LaFrance G116 series 2 10 ton wrecker 1944 Ward LaFrance G116 series 5 10 ton wrecker 1931 Ford AA with a WEAVER crane 1944 Sterling HC 165 tractor 1944 Autocar U7144T w/ 10 ton trailer
| | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 | Oh please. You slay me. Really. You and Mack Boy teaming up??? Against .... MOI??? Yawnsville. And your big, cool truck, too!!! Both of you! :p John
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,276 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,276 | 42Chevy you got John going I was just trying to get Spanky going too.  | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 | No problem, Dump Trucks ar O.K. with me. Only owned one of them, & it was a '46 F*rd COE, with a box dump. It only had a 101"in. wheelbase, with air, over hydraulic brakes. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 242 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 242 | Yo Poobah; I think I found the root of your jealousy, you should have bought that COE International in Winchester. BTW, I do not own a Chevy firetruck...........YET, as I know if I made that purchase you would have to be hauled away in a straight jacket  1942 G5106 1.5-ton Chevy cargo dump Gallery pageOld Dominion Stovebolt Society T/Sgt. Gott (28 years of service with the USPP) 1940 Chevy G506 4112 cargo dump 1942 Diamond T G509 969A 4 ton wrecker 1942 Ward LaFrance G116 series 2 10 ton wrecker 1944 Ward LaFrance G116 series 5 10 ton wrecker 1931 Ford AA with a WEAVER crane 1944 Sterling HC 165 tractor 1944 Autocar U7144T w/ 10 ton trailer
| | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 | John
Seriously, you ought to get a firetruck! I think everyone should have a firetruck. They're a gas and a half to go riding around in. Of course, mine is just barely a fire truck -- take the pump, lights and siren off it and it's just an old truck with a big steel box on the back of it. There was a great truck available back home in Maine (naturally, right AFTER I bought mine) it was one of the CCKW-based ones (Same Darley pump as my truck) turned over to rural VFDs after the war. It was a beautiful truck that was operational until they sold it. Seems like a lot of reserve apparatus from small VFDs has been hitting the market over the past few years as Homeland Security money trickles down. I wonder if that means the good old days of cheap antique firetrucks from VFDs are about to come to an end?
Unfortunately, that exercise in Winchester told me that a big rig COE is not a workable idea. It would work if you three guys just happened to be here whenever Peggy needed to get in it ... Of course, having you, Bill and Grigg as neighbors would be cool (The Mennonite community might never recover...)
Grant -- Keep after Spanky! He can take it!
Well got to get outseide -- one of our Bradford Pears shed half of itself over night. Right onto some of our christmas trees. Nothing like firing up the chainsaw on a holiday morning.
John
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