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    One for the Ford AA experts

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    Those wheels are not AA Ford. Early 1928 AA's had heavy duty versions of the A spoked metal wheels, and later AAs had the slotted steel wheels that Ford used thru the 1930's all the way up until this day.

     

    Those are definitely aftermarket wheels or something that were borrowed and adapted from another manufacturers vehicle.

     

    And then theres that cab...

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    What is this '30s grille?

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    5 hours ago, f.f.jones said:

    J.C. Whitney and probably many other aftermarket retailers (Such as Western Auto and maybe even Sears and Wards) sold replacement grilles for 30's and 40's cars into the 1960's or even later. They were usually fabricated from many pieces rather than made from a larger stamping - to lower costs and avoid patent problems. If interested, you might find some old sales catalogs on line or at swap meets.

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    2 trucks, deep in the woods

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    8 minutes ago, Dandy Dave said:

    Really need more photos for a clearer picture. The first one, with the 6 Cylinder engine, reminds me of a mid 20's GMC with that style of cowl and what little I can see of the fenders. It may have been repowered with that engine which was not uncommon for trucks still in service after the first engine failed. Not sure on the second truck. That dump body would look good on my 1925 White. 

    I noticed that dump-box as well. There is an I.D. tag right next to the rear gate release lever- Garwood or Heil maybe?

    Heils I see...

    3 minutes ago, OLDTINPUSHER said:

    Both have Weil dump bodies. I'm thinking mid 1920's Federal for the one.

     

    2 trucks, deep in the woods

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    The Truck Not Taken 

    (With apologies to)  ROBERT FROST
    Two trucks diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not take them both
    And be one dreamer, long I stood
    And looked under one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;
     
    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was rusty and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,
     
    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.
     
    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two trucks diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
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    But really I have no clue.

     

    That instrument cluster may offer a hint, But by the crude coachwork on those cabs, I suspect they are converted passenger cars.  Can you get a few more photographs from far enough away to show the entire truck(s)?

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    Air kit

    in What is it?

    Posted · Edited by dustycrusty (see edit history)

    Yours, by the graphics, dates from the late 1930's-early 1940's. These kits were made from the teens until the 1960's, and possibly later for agricultural use. The number at the extreme lower right corner of the graphic would be the date code for when this particular image was first used with this service kit.

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    WHAT S IT

    in What is it?

    Posted · Edited by dustycrusty (see edit history)

    Here's a Elcar and a Laurel automobile, also with that distinctive "Clover-leaf" type body. The lack of rear doors necessitated the back passengers entering through a gap between the front two "bucket" seats, or over the side "Duke boys" style! (although, now that I've posted this, I can see the Elcar has rear doors!)

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    Lincoln but what year and what body?

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    4 hours ago, AndrewSydney said:

    That was filmed in Prague. The whole film is on youtube.

     

    Here are a few scenes of interest to car enthusiasts:

     

    https://youtu.be/GcNVwxm6Dy0?t=2256

    https://youtu.be/GcNVwxm6Dy0?t=3228

    https://youtu.be/GcNVwxm6Dy0?t=1169

    https://youtu.be/GcNVwxm6Dy0?t=1400

    https://youtu.be/GcNVwxm6Dy0?t=5718

     

    WOW. I've seen more coordination and synchronicity in a 1:59 A.M. line dance leaving a local bar than that bunch of Rockette-wannabes walking the plank! Nadia Comaneci and Simone Biles have nothing on that lead "dancer" and her St. Vitus-inspired entrance. Who contorts their arms like that to place them on their hips unless they've been racked by The Spanish Inquisition?

     

    Esther Williams they aint. 

     

    But yeah, some decent scenes of post-war/pre-war Prague and contemporary autos and trucks!

    Lincoln but what year and what body?

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    2 hours ago, edinmass said:

    Coachwork looks European to me.

    Hmmm, trying to pin down the filming location by the product signs above the mystery Lincoln:

     

    "Veedol" & "Mobiloil"       =  a pair of American oil companies

     

    "Pneu Michelin"             =  the famous French tire manufacturer

     

    "Kudrnac Everit"            =  a Czechoslovakian tire maker 

     

    "Doko"                            = a Japanese magazine for gay men...

     

    This must be some movie!

     

     

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    Mystery licence plate

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    A 1942 Plymouth with a 1954-56 issued Connecticut  license plate.

     

    Beginning in 1954 the "CONN" on the plate was embossed horizontally on the right side of the tag. Earlier, similar license plate versions had it on the left side,  further abbreviated, or displayed vertically.  Beginning in 1957, all states adopted a standardized size license plate and this smaller, squarer type was discontinued.

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