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Rust under the tank straps.

Privilege? Sorry, but her investigation was run by all Obama's honest, patriotic and unbiased appointees in the DOJ, NSA, FBI and the House Ethics Committee. Surely you can not think they would hide or bury evidence

Yup. So far mostly Dodges and a few early 40's Studes. They are a milk crate full of photos probably 5 or 6000. Paul

I roll with it, she's been giving me knuckle knots since we were 14.

Nice! Thanks for the knot on my head! My wife heard my say your "significant other" was good looking.. Paul

Last I heard from Vlad, he found he must work to support his growing fleet of Dogs.

As long as they understand the North American market is not the same as the European market, they should be fine.

Looks good. Paul

Almost sounds like it could it be ex fire truck cab??

Pre HEI GM had a resister wire from the ignition to the coil, Chrysler had a ceramic ballast resister on the firewall , some had the ceramic resistor mounted on the coil bracket .and some had a resister built in to the coil . What they do is limit the voltage to the points them selves to prevent them from burning out. Generally the points and condenser will work with or without the resistor BUT they will fail sooner then not. You could always run a Pertronix conversion and eliminate everything but the 12 volt coil. You could get the Pertronix from NAPA, Auto Zone or and good parts store. Paul

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Got a tall cowboy hat?

Don't forget that the blower motor for the heater / defroster unless you can match up one, WILL need a resistor to cut the volts down to 6 or 8 volt.

Try a shop that sells or lists parts ( like Lucas ) for British cars. Some John Deere tractors are also 12 volt positive ground.Maybe NAPA ? Be sure to i.d. if the old coil has internal or external resistor Not have the correct resistor will eat points.

Crackerbox Palace - 1964 GMC DFX7009 With its dual front axles, GMC's modified 1964 GMC DFX7009 is half tanker, half van, all ingenuity Crackerbox Palace - 1964 GMC DFX7009 from Hemmings Classic Car Hemmings Classic Car by Jim Donnelly This was Down East, heading into the mid-Sixties on the coast of Maine, where an Interstate highway looked so radically new that it might as well have been teleportation. Go far enough north between the woods and the ocean and the concrete slab went away; humanity started to dwindle away. Just not completely. Necessity, however, can breed some interesting solutions. This one was called the tank van, an unorthodox innovation by Cole's Express, one of Maine's premier transportation companies, which was intended to combine a bulk tanker with a conventional 45-foot box trailer and still fit within maximum length restrictions as they existed nearing the mid-Sixties. It started life as a 1964 GMC DFX7009, with a 230hp Detroit Diesel V6-71 for power and a 10-speed Fuller Roadranger transmission. This GMC design is pretty historic in its own right. With its blocky shape and swept-up rear engine cover, the truck appeared in 1959 and became known shortly as the Crackerbox. It replaced the bullnosed GMC "Cannonball" line, and its short BBC (bumper to back of cab) measurement was also aimed directly at length-law compliance. Cole's new GMC then got shipped to Chicago for some highly atypical changes. It went to the Hendrickson Motor Truck Company, which had patented the tandem-axle suspension for heavy trucks in 1929. Hendrickson later came out with a twin-steer tandem front axle, which it adapted to a variety of trucks, although it was most closely associated with International Harvester, which furnished the VCO-series tilt cab (also used by Diamond T) for an 8x4 twin-steer rig in 1958. Generally, twin-steer Hendrickson highway setups were rated at 22,000 pounds. Galen Cole, son of Cole's Express founder Allie Cole, said the first of these Cole's "tank vans" was followed by three others, each GMC tractor modified with twin front axles by Hendrickson, but retaining their factory single rear drive axles. "We then brought it here and mounted an 11-foot, 3,300-gallon aluminum fuel tank made by Techweld of Burlington, Massachusetts. It was our idea from the start. We started out with a square tank, but they went to a rounded tank with greater strength, which is now standard for every truck. They worked beautifully." The big tank was not intended to fuel the GMC, but instead, to use an elliptical pun, to keep it from running empty. Galen said that in the 1960s, a high percentage of Cole's one-way runs through Maine were deadheads, with the truck running empty. The tanks were added so the trucks could deliver fuel oil to customers along the northbound route. "We were running as many as a thousand empties northbound to Aroostook to pick up potatoes going south, plus frozen French fries and newsprint. So we had an imbalance going north. Bangor, where we ran from, was the headquarters of the Penobscot River, and all oil and gasoline from there had either been transported by tanker or railcar. Interstate 95 was completed by then, but once you got to Houlton, where I-95 stops and has never been completed, it's another 50 or 60 miles farther north on U.S. 1 to Caribou. Then it's another 50 miles to Fort Kent or Madawaska on the Canadian border. We always traveled the same route: I-95 to its end, then up Route 1 through Mars Hill to Presque Isle, where we had a large terminal. We carried oil in the tank on the way up. We could have carried up to 12,000 pounds of general freight, but we had such a surplus of southbound traffic that we generally ran the trailer empty going up." Beyond its trucking company, the Cole family also ran the main Diamond T, Diamond Reo and Freightliner dealerships in Maine. But for the tank vans, Cole's Express chose the Crackerbox because its V-6 diesel's engine block was short enough to keep from intruding into space allotted for the oil tank on the GMC's extended frame. Before long, Cole's Transportation was running a four-unit fleet of GMC-pulled, Hendrickson-steered tank vans up and down through Maine, a solid 300-mile run each way from Portland through Bangor and up to Caribou. In pure trucking terms, the Cole's Express innovation most resembles the "dromedary" rigs that were much more common in the Rocky Mountain states. These trucks used similarly long-wheelbase tractors (though usually without dual front axles) and had a tall cargo box positioned on the tractor frame between the cab and the trailer; they took their name from the single-hump camel they somewhat resembled. The regulatory environment in Maine was different from out West; in Galen's words, the state managed to get the law reinterpreted so that a dromedary-type tank had to be factored into the truck's overall length, making the whole combination illegal. One rig survives and is on display at the Cole Museum of Land Transportation in Bangor; visit them online at www.colemuseum.com. "We fought with the railroads and we had a company ready to build us a truck bus, with a nine-foot passenger cab behind the cab," Galen recalled. "The Maine Public Utilities Commission said we'd drive all the bus companies out of business, and the bus companies were owned by the railroads."

It will also kill the 6 volt coil. Simpler to get a 12 volt coil, points and condenser for the ignition rather than step the volts down.

Thats what children are for.

More than likely. Was ignored in a GMC dealer in Patchoque by the one salesman there. After him ignoring my wife and I for 15 minutes I went to his desk, and pulled out$ 20,000 in hundreds and told him this was the down payment for that pick up in the show room and left.

They won't sag if the vent doesn't leak. Moisture causes the sag. Some, like my R has an ABS plastic head liner. Paul

They seem to be priced on mood. I called on a 1954 Mack LTL in Monforte colors, got a price, called back to ask about deposit needed and got a higher "revised price" from another sale person. Either was it's only a phone call. Paul

You're half way there, buffer and compound would make quick work of it

I worked for Grumman Aerospace in the early 1970's and was a U.S.Navy certified air frame welder.