I think this would look cooler without the Dagmars

 

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/02/unique.html

It's rare and fantastic to see someone has made a new matched set

 https://mecanicien.tumblr.com/image/189296121201

Pro Rock Engineering is the winner of the King Builder of the 2024 IMX (Indonesia Modifications Expo) contest in Indonesia! Thank you DD29 for letting me know about this!

This is NOGO BONDO a masterpiece based on Toyota Dyna highly modified by MakingCars.id ProRockEngineering built in just 2 months, and succeeded in becoming the winner at IMX 2024

2.5 months from start to finish!

 

https://www.instagram.com/prorockengineering/reel/DAr8etsPLd6/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DB7y0xZz6_5/?hl=en&img_index=1

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063642964963

'51 COE pulled out of the woods WITH the trailer

it is a long boring video though  https://youtu.be/ZGCTY9EfGNI

Someone made the first electric COE

interesting and a bit aerodynamic. Willéme LD610 circa mid-1950s - France

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=395469940150852&set=a.174812662216582

I don't think I've seen a COE converted to rail service before

https://forum-auto.caradisiac.com/topic/376665-photos-des-trains-avec-des-anciennes/page/53/#comments

COE tow truck on standby to make money if anyone kills their car passing through the flooded road

https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AZNIPCCQL54HGJ8R/full/AUCP7V44HZ2YQP8E

Ford found in a forest

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1326929511324796  for the video walk around

interesting, has a Roth grill ornament

I dig the turn signals, the fog lights on the bumper, the side panels on the side of the grill, and did you see how huge the headlights are? 

here's one reason polarized lenses are important, reflections suck and obscure the thing you want to see clearly in a photograph

cool 1967 GMC COE with a custom sleeper and twin-turbo Detroit Diesel 12V92 . The cab is only 48 inches deep

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-ultimate-gmc-crackerbox-project-truck-with-a-v12-detroit-is-just-waiting-to-be-finished

so, COEs are now part of maternity photos, and it's not a prank to see if we are gullible, these are legit.

In a 2019 interview with Brazilian website Universo Online, the woman pictured, Diana Rodrigues of Mato Grosso, Brazil, explained how the truck represented the financial hardships her parents endured in order to raise a family. 

“My parents’ honeymoon took place on the road, in a truck. Not only because of the profession, but also because of the financial conditions, which were not the best,” Rodrigues offered. “During the entire pregnancy, my mother traveled with my father [and] three months after I was born, we hit the road again. […] The truck is part of our lives and could not be left out.”

this is an award winner   https://julie-jolie.de/baby-photo-awards/  from Juliana Koennecke in Germany

https://twitter.com/misskittyf/status/1301953241459154944/photo/1

https://www.facebook.com/TheOnlyWayisTrucking/photos/396981421776351/

https://marcostoledo.alboompro.com/post/45835-ensaio-de-gestante-incrivel

https://www.willianbarbosafotografia.com.br/portfolio/ensaios-gestantes/956681-alexia-adilson-antony

https://www.mandatory.com/culture/1576758-meanwhile-on-social-media-semi-truck-maternity-photos-have-us-questioning-everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-sex-and-the-birthing-process

a few interesting things coming to auction from the inevitable liquidation of the Oldham collection in Arizona

1943 White bomb loader COE

1961 Fiat 600

1964 Ford former Chevron airport fuel truck

1970 Mach 1

and this 1972 GMC

Oldham was involved in seven dealerships throughout his career, collected about 900 cars and is auctioning about 100 of the less interesting, less desirable, and certainly not the high demand extremely valuable ones.

Spanning across 37 Acres of Arizona desert, with warehouses that house cars, trucks, 4x4’s and other specialty vehicles that were used to rent to movie studios for use ion films

https://www.bigiron.com/Auctions/Dec_08_2022_10A?groupcode=CC_Oldham_AZ_Collection

1969 IH CO1800 found in a junkyard given a terrific 2nd life

Keith Johnston of Corning, Calif., found the CO1800's cab in a metal recycler's yard, according to Hot Wheels. Most would have left it there, but Johnston saw it as the perfect starting point to build his dream truck. He spent two years rebuilding it with a custom air suspension system, disc brakes and 22-inch wheels. Power comes from a 454-cubic-inch

https://www.autoblog.com/2022/10/21/international-co1800-truck-hot-wheels-legends-finalist/

The Days Gone By Museum in Tennessee is closing after a 30 year run, and next month, every piece in the collection will sell to the highest bidder in an online auction. Planes, cars, tractors, a caboose, and a Maytag collection

https://www.aumannvintagepower.com/auction/days-gone-by-museum-collection---planes-trains-and-automobiles-62906/photos

https://www.rfdtv.com/story/47013356/days-gone-by-museum-closing-doors-after-30-years

there is no better time to buy that thing you've wanted than when a museum is auctioning off it's collection of rare stuff, that is in great condition

cool COE wrecker in 1967

 https://photobygibson.com/archive/collections/archive/Town-of-Greenport/

International Harvester COE fire truck... odd but cool looking

1942, with a 427 gas engine, and only 10k miles

https://www.firetruckmall.com/AvailableTruck/12435/1942-American-LaFrance-Pumper

check out the camera truck used in the movie That Thing You Do (thanks 80 Griiip!)

its a Titan made by Chapman Leonard in Hollywood https://www.chapman-leonard.com/details.php?products_id=16

https://www.facebook.com/chapmanleonard/

largely built out of repurposed materials from World War II, including parts from retired military vehicles and even a landing gear from a WWII military plane

the cab is from a 1958 Bel Air

"a Titan was no mere crane, but a moving camera platform able to cruise along the road while a camera operator and assistant did their work way out at the end of the long crane arm. The wheels of a Titan could even “crab” like a dolly (all the wheels turning in the same direction), enabling the driver to put the camera and lens exactly where the director wanted it. With the weight balance adjusted by pumps moving liquid mercury within the arm rather than manually-loading lead weights, the Chapman Titan was a top-shelf item -- other than the camera itself, probably the biggest and most sophisticated piece of film equipment available at the time."

http://hollywoodjuicer.blogspot.com/2008/12/adventures-in-grip-land-cranes.html

https://www.facebook.com/chapmanleonard/photos/the-titan-mobile-crane-has-served-up-some-of-the-most-iconic-shots-for-the-motio/2416599615022695/

As Samuelson tells it, “After World War II, Ralph Chapman, a special effects technician with an engineering bent, produced the first studio crane that was more than a one-off in 1945.” The Chapman line of equipment began with small, medium and large stage cranes developed between 1946 and 1947. Of the large cranes, the biggest of them were able to get the camera mount up to forty feet off the stage floor.

About 1950, Chapman developed a crane than could travel independently. The cranes were equipped with gasoline engines so they could be taken to the location under their own power. The unit was mounted on a chassis that could also run on a silent electric motor drive for use on sets using recording takes using sensitive sound equipment.

On gasoline, it could travel anywhere. No longer confined to the sound stage, it could travel with the production and shoot exteriors from city streets to deserts and mountains. And wherever the set was they could be set up to do all the things they had been doing on the stage or backlot including a six-wheel crab ability.

After graduating from UCLA’s school of engineering in 1956,  his son Leonard formed his own company, Leonard’s Studio Equipment, and, in 1965, merged with his father’s company to create Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment.

https://www.provideocoalition.com/camera-cranes-years/

https://www.sportsbroadcastinghalloffame.org/inductees/leonard-chapman/

https://grip-rigs.tumblr.com/post/159760500272/leonard-and-ralph-chapman-riding-the-first-mobile

The company began life in 1945 as the Studio Equipment Company, where Leonard Chapman's father, Ralph, was one of the partners. Not only were they not "Chapman/Leonard" at that point, they weren't even "Chapman." Ralph was Ralph Terkanian, and his bride-to-be, Mabel Mahakian, sold some of her personal properties so that Ralph could buy out his partners.

Leonard was 11 when that happened, and a few years later, found himself at Los Angeles City College, using that engineering talent to modify a 1951 Studebaker for more power. A slew of scholarship offers followed upon graduation - including to MIT and Cal Tech - but Leonard stayed local and finished at UCLA. The newly-minted Bruin graduated in 1956, with honours in mechanical engineering, and then promptly went to work for his dad. Before the Eisenhower era was over, Ralph had changed his name to Ralph T. Chapman and Leonard followed suit, and thus Chapman Studio Equipment was born.

In that same 1956, director Cecil B. DeMille needed a crane that could deliver some of the epic shots he was envisioning for The Ten Commandments (DP Loyal Griggs). Ralph was flown to Egypt, and the result was cinema history - along with the company now having "C.B.'s" imprimatur.

https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/chapman-leonard/