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Car Transporter Photos from the 50's!


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How cool are these transporters? And the cars wonderful. What a photographic time warp. Looks to me these shots were from 48' to 56'. The F-1 Ford trucks are interesting. What I've been told in the past, the 1/2 tons shipped with hub caps and the 3/4 ton were a option!

God bless the poor drivers...those COE trucks drove & rode so hard. No power nothing! They were Lucky to have a AM radio, heater, & some x-tra Running lights. And the GMC truck more than likely had a scream'm 6-71 detroit diesel to keep your foot hammered to the floor with. Some great cars on those transports. American Made!

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In that set with the '59 Fords transporter wreck, the last pic is printed back to front. Seems the rescuers and the gawker's vehicles are all non-Fords! This era is mostly from pre-freeway days. Anyone know enough of truck history to know what the speed limit was for trucks at that time. From the little I know of trucks of that era they mostly would have had only around 150 hp to play with so I presume anything much more than a 40mph cruising speed with a load on was a bonus.

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