Mark T

I never got good results with one of those DAs. Best one I have is an old one you can lock to spin round only. And lots of WD40

One of these postd we're gonna see the Mov'n On KW in the background or the coupe from American Graffiti to match the '55

Betty White made it close to a hundred too......just say'n

You guys have a lot of cool stuff.

I just sold those guys an engine, and they get my casings. I'll ask him about it.

Maybe age got the better of it. Probably @35 years old.

My guess is that truck's most likely in good shape. Those guys (on the door) take good care of their equipment. The original owner did too.

That looks like it was a Wyoming Sand and Stone truck when it was brand new. I'd like to see it now. Either way, I've worked side by side with it at one time or another.

Grey was around '85 or '86.

40 years

Nice ain't it ?? I have a feeling that truck still looks like that no matter how old the picture is.

Google three steer Peterbilt wrecker. I just happened to see it gettin off the North East Extention. Must have been when they were taking it home from Miller. It was huge being right next to it.

That's the company, but the Peterbilt I saw makes that look like a C30 with a 440 Holmes. This thing looked more like it belonged on RR tracks. 3 sters 3 drives.

Biggest wrecker I ever saw in my life, I'm almost certain was on it's way to Connecticut. A huge Peterbilt with what I believe was a 100 ton rotator.

Clevleland was the first of the 335 family. Back in the late '60s when Ford came out with the 460 someone from Ford looked at a Big Block Chevy's canted valve arrangement and said "hmmm.... we need something like that" So they made the 460 and 429. They were called the 385 family. Oh, and they were coo coo powerful just how they came in the land yatchts they came in (Lincoln Mark 3s 365 HP/500lb/ft torque and the 429 Thunderjet wasn't too far behind 360/480) Then there were a handful of high performance 429s . Then they decided to use the same arrangement in a smaller engine. The 351 Cleveland. The first ones were pretty strong and responded to being hot rodded. They were sorta short lived though because of strickter emission requirements. By that time, The FE family (352s, 360s 390s 406s 427s and the 428) were all gone. The 351M was still a 335 (as well as The 400M) and kinda filled the void of the 360s in the light trucks. The old 289s, 302s and 351 Windsors were all based on the same platform. The 302 and 351 Windsor seemed to hold on a while in pickups and passenger vehicles. Ford must have spent a fortune retooling over the years, they had lots of different engines , many for the same applications too.