The Stovebolt Site Forums The Parking Lot Tons 'o Fun 1952 1 ton DRW Nitroglycerine truck

Hello, I posted this in the newby forum as my first post but thought I would post it here as well as some may not read the new guy posts.I recently bought a 1952 GMC 1 ton dually that was originally built for a very unique and dangerous purpose. It was specifically built and used to carry Nitroglycerine for the purpose of "Shooting" oil wells! They used what they called a "torpedo" to lower the Nitro and, in one example, marbles, called the "Marble Shot" down a well and set it off to "Shoot" the well. Basically this is the earlier and much more dangerous version of Fracking that is used today. It has a very unique and heavy custom made bed and it has spools for the drop wire and charge wire that are controlled separately or together and run from a hydraulic PTO off the transmission. The truck has sat for many years and is in relatively rough shape but is mostly complete. I have been slowly working on getting things like 18" tires because I want to keep the stock wheels. That being said, the reason I bought the 69 1 ton was because at one time someone put 19.5 tubeless wheels and tires on it so I bought it just in case I could not use the 18's on the 52. The lug nuts on the 69 are even identical to the 52's lugs. I will post pics when I get a chance.

Pics here

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9203232#post9203232

Cool truck, very unique. Love the bed. Congrats and welcome to the Bolt!