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Fargoguy

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  1. Can you imagine how those lugs and steel front wheels would tear up the lawn at Pebble? I'd Love to see that...
  2. Walt, An article online says it was Mid-State Body company, Waterloo, NY- contracted to build three of those for the Army corps of Engineers.
  3. I believe he said Good Luck because: 1. He believes that the vehicle is being hauled in a substandard way that he doesn't agree with 2. He believes that he would have been a better choice no matter what price 3. He uses what he sees as the failures or shortcomings of others to reinforce his own superior value and quality. ( This can be backed up by his use of pictures of a 20's car hauled through an Ice storm on an open trailer in his ads to show the "wrong" way to do things as opposed to the way he does them).
  4. I agree! That thing is an amazing piece!
  5. I was thinking about this last night- I have been very fortunate thus far to have a varied collection of cars to play with. As I get older, I'm thinning them down, upgrading, refining, but I kind of made a list in my head of cars i'd really like to own in my lifetime. Of course there are cars that will most likely ( unless i win the lottery) be out of reach like a Tucker or a Duesenburg, but I was trying to list 2 or 3 that i'd really like to own. What are on your list? A 30's touring or closed car that is sorted and ready for the road- preferrably something big- Studebaker president, Buick, Packard etc- that I can hop in and drive anywhere 60's Dodge Custom Sport special big block half ton Early 50's Step Down Hudson
  6. That looks like a nice coupe and parts car!! Very cool find!
  7. That is an extremely reliable, extremely well-travelled 1947 Canadian Dodge
  8. I’ve had several free or nearly free parts cars over the years, but my under 100 vehicle was different . Our small town fire department had an old Mack pumper that I hadn’t seen for a few years, so I asked one of the town councillors about it and what its status was. He called me the next day and told me to bring him a loonie( Canadian 1 dollar coin) . I did and he signed me a bill of sale. I took a battery and one of the techs from the garage I worked at over to check it out. It wa in an old storage barn just west of town. I installed the battery and we did a cursory check of fluids, hit the starter and it was running! Next we checked if it would move, it did, and it had brakes, so he drove it out and headed back for our shop. We checked it over better, bled the brakes and changed fluids. A couple of months later I drove it the 300 miles to where it is now stored and used regularly. 1961 Mack C125 pumper. This was 10 years ago
  9. I was just looking at some old photos and came across some shots that I took just east of Kalispell, MT in the summer of 2005. This was out front of an auto wrecker, and at the time I wasn't sure even what i was looking at. I often wonder where it went, google street view shows it isn't there now.
  10. It looks like forum maintenance may interrupt my days so I will post this last one tonight. I want to thank everyone who has commented and followed along- hopefully it was at least mildly entertaining. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season. I titled this last one as future because it is currently our project in progress. Several years ago at a Museum event I was driving a friend’s 49 Crosley Sedan Delivery, a fellow approached me and said he had another Crosley that was going to be crushed in a farm cleanup later that month. So we rescued this week later. 1947 Crosley Roundside pickup. It hasn’t had an easy life, at some point someone had hacked a Dodge colt engine in it, many parts were missing, but it was too cute not to rescue. I am in need of lots of parts- but dad has started body work on it this winter.
  11. It was just a garbage truck. A friend bought it to use at his cabin for garbage and to haul water. It was shabby, but it ran well and always started, summer and winter. He used it for many years, the paint got shabbier and weather took its toll. Then, he found a low mileage 52 Fargo 1 ton to replace this truck. So Dad bought it. 1948 Dodge 1 ton, flathead six with 4 speed. It has an electric box hoist on it, driven by a flathead ford 6v starter. Dad puttered away at it, while using it for hauling branches, etc to the dump occasionally. His friend who owned a body shop borrowed it a couple times a year to clean up scrap metal and garbage from behind the shop. When that friend decided it was time to sell the body shop and retire, he told dad to bring him the truck for a bit to use it to clean up. What we didn’t know was that he was going to paint the truck for us. This truck is such a sweet runner and it’s so quiet when it’s running you can’t even tell. I’m 1948 Dodge and Fargo advertised an optional comfort ride seat. When we had this one reupholstered after the paint job, we discovered that the seat is made completely of high density foam, absolutely no springs. Thus far, this is the only truck I have come across that is equipped with the optional seat.
  12. Part of our fleet of Fargo trucks is my 63 Fargo 300- it’s my acreage chore truck- it hauls water every spring, garbage to the dump, firewood in the fall, and almost anything else I ask it to do. 225 slant six with a 4 speed transmission, this thing is bulletproof. It has 32,000 original miles and it’s not shiny like my other vehicles, but it gets plenty of compliments when I use it.
  13. 66 Fargo 1/2 ton- 318 poly(wide block) 3 speed manual transmission . Sold new in Outlook, sk, equipped with custom cab trim. I purchased in 2000 and replaced the rusty rockers and cab mounts. Fargo was a badge-engineered truck sold at Plymouth dealers in Canada from the 30s until 1972.
  14. I appreciate the comments guys- but we will run out of vehicles that we own on Christmas day. Thanks for following along!
  15. My long- time friend and Ford guy, Ralph found this car in a garage in 1957. It was a very good, solid car that he restored over the next year, finishing in 1958. It was his pride and joy, that he kept for the next 60 years. I am proud to be its next caretaker. 1928 Model A Roadster, with a picture of Ralph the last time he drove it. He no longer had a license and his memory was failing him at that point, but he knew exactly how to start and drive the car that day and our ride was flawless. He passed the following winter.
  16. First start of the day takes a couple seconds of cranking with the choke on. Once it has warmed up, it barely turns and it's running. 1948 Dodge 1 Ton
  17. 1967 Dodge A100 pickup. My grandpa acquired this truck from relatives in the mid 80s, and restored it with my dad. Slant six, automatic. As a kid I thought it resembled a Tonka toy truck I had, so it became nicknamed the Tonka Toy.
  18. 1968 Chevrolet c10- 250 six, 3 speed standard. Purchased new in Melville, Sk by the Lynn family from Flin-Flon, Manitoba. Used for many years with a camper on the back to tow the family sailboat to lakes all over Northern Saskatchewan. Original paint, we got it from the second generation of the Lynn family a few years ago. My girls have learned to drive 3 on the tree in it, eventually it will be my older daughter’s truck.
  19. 1964 Fargo Power Wagon fire truck. We aren’t sure which department bought this truck new, but Buckland Fire Dept purchased it in 1969 and used it until 2020. V8, 4 speed it was a versatile unit as it wasn’t a big truck, could get into remote spots and could pump water on the fly. It’s low mileage, under 15,000 original miles. In 2018, 2 miles from our home, a forest fire started- dubbed the Rally Fire in this area because it started the day of a huge quad rally. That fire raged for a week, at one time was in a 1/2 mile of our home. This unit sat beside a slough for several days near our home working as a relay pumper to fill tankers in that fire fighting effort. Also interesting is that the fire body was built and installed in Saskatoon, SK. It’s always popular, everybody loves a fire truck. My 15 year old has already laid claim to it when I’m done with it.
  20. 1979 Shriner Mini Model T- in 1979, a family friend purchased two of these, donated one to Sukanen Ship Museum to be raffled and kept the other one to use for advertisement for his transmission shop. I was his official driver as a kid- that’s me at 5 in the driver’s seat. Fast forward 30 years and have kids of my own and he decides we should buy it for our girls. Deal was struck and “L’il Lizzie” came home to our house. Our girls have loved her, grandpa built her a custom built enclosed trailer so that she could come along with us to car shows. 5hp Briggs, converted to electric start- has chain drive with forward and reverse.
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