Joseph Cummings

Very well built cars too. I always remember helping my uncle rebuild a 6 cylinder Pierce for an earlier car and it had a roller cam. To me as an early teen a roller cam was pretty exotic stuff for race cars and I couldn't imagine them having such advanced designs in a car engine built in 1919

"The mansion, which had more than 20 fireplaces, also had many elaborate features such as gold fixtures in every bathroom. In addition, the Tylers had a 10-car turntable garage, enabling each car to be cranked to its own spot. Henry D. Slepper of Boston was hired to oversee the mansion’s interior decorating. Forty servants staffed the Tyler residence in its heyday, and they lived either in the east wing of the house or in the small cottages situated on the estate." https://www.bucks.edu/campus/newtown/campusmap/tylerhall/

Well the original owner was George Frederick Tyler and this was his "Summer Cottage" called "Indian Council Rock" in Newtown PA. Somehow my uncle's father was friends with him and got the car for my uncle

Yeah in a round about way, they were at our house for all the holidays, at my uncle's house all the time, took me to car, truck, and motorcycle shows all the time when I was a kid. Matt has been gone I guess like 20 years from a heart condition. I haven't been able to get in touch with John either. I have to try and call my cousin and see if she knows anything. You know he moved to upper Bucks don't you? Damn, I hope he is OK. They actually followed my uncle home when he was out in one of his Pierce Arrows in like 1965. That is how we all met. Here is one of the Pierces with the new owner. The women are my Aunt and My Cousin

Such a shame really. In the 70's we had a customer that had a 12 cylinder XKE. Some rich guy that owned a bunch of discount stores and had a warehouse around the corner from our garage. He wasn't mechanical at all and the Jag was kind of temperamental and had Lucas Electrics so sometimes he couldn't get it started so he'd just leave it at some country club or somebody's mansion and call us to go get it like it was no big deal. Never really anything wrong with it, I think he wasn't using the fuel enrichment switch right and would kill the battery. So we'd go out with the service truck and I'd get it running and drive it back. Sometimes it would be like 50 miles away. Well I was 17 or 18 years old and getting paid to troubleshoot an XKE so you know I had to see if it had any problems at max speed. Holy Chit it was fast, Quick too, it would chirp the tires with every shift. It was temperamental, and parts were crazy expensive, but what a car it was

I went to kindergarten with a kid that always ate the playdoh. Last time I saw him he was a Democratic Committeeman, but that's been years ago. I heard he died though RIP Davy

Sam Descutner

I heard that Richie that owned that Pete was a good guy through some mutual friends, But the drugs took over. Dead now unfortunately. He took on too much trying to care for his dying father while running that truck. RIP

Yeah there is some floorboard missing. They like to sun themselves in there. One time a mother bobcat and her kittens made a home in an old chevy van with the dogbox out of it, but I couldn't get them to come close. I could lure the mom in to about 25 or 30 feet with chicken after a while, but that was only if I was sitting down looking out the back garage door. I wanted one of those kittens bad lol

I don't care if he looks on here, only an outright idiot would hack that frame in the middle. That trunnion will slide back about 4 feet and still be on the original rails. Then what you add to the back and your weld are in a low stress area. And air rides are for OTR freight trucks, on a construction site they are trash compaired to a single point suspension like a Camelback or a walking beam What is he trying to do, make it into this?

I had some gas motor 10 wheelers over the years, two IH with 450 RD, that were kinda slow, but super reliable, and a Diamond Reo with a IH V537 swapped into it, That one ran pretty good. I guess they were like 275 HP, but it was kind of thirsty. I had a GMC single axle with a 478 V6 in it, little juice brake truck. I think it was originally a 305 or something small like that. Ran strong, hardly ever had to shift it. Had a unique low rumble that used to set off all the car alarms as I passed them on the street

I have a Mack up on the hill with 2 Cats in it

I owned an MB with one in it, It was gutless as hell. I don't think I even owned it for 24 hours. It had an allison behind it and was really clean. Guy bought it for shuttling stuff between his plant and storage he owned like 1/4 mile away

In a Superliner? What were they, like 150 horsepower?

If he cuts the frame and grafts some POS air ride under that truck I'll vomit. If you got to make it longer unbolt the trunnion and drill holes like a white man

Gas motored Tandems and single axles used to be everywhere when I was a kid. Working in my uncle's garage we got them in all the time. Being a good carb and ignition guy and we had a Sun distributor machine I could get them all running right on. They always came in missing, with the carb messed up, late timing, governor disconnected, vacuum filter on the distributor for the gov clogged, the guys always were smiling after they tried them out. I had boxes full of jets, power valves, 50 cc reo accelerator pumps, different accelerator pump cams. We were one of those old time garages with the Black & Decker Vibrocentric valve and seat grinders, a Van Norman boring bar setup with a "sucker outer", a piston skirt knurler, and a Winona intheblok crankshaft grinder. I had other family in philly that was still making tar top batteries and repairing and rebuilding them up until at least the late 80's, They were kind of big in the antique truck scene, really big in the antique motorcycle crowd too

I think it was so humiliated by the ad, it decided to take it's own life

Yeah, he just got 2 late 50's Ford 10 wheelers, both with gas motors I think a 57 and a 59 If you look behind the LF dump, you can see the back of one of John Griffin's Brockway wreckers. That was his small one, a 46 I believe with a continental gas. The Lf was formally Tom Zacny's RIP, and them It belonged to Eugene Evans RIP, no idea where it is now. His daughter might know, I'll have to see

Walter G from pittston. I had a senior moment

Walt, the guy that made that video sent me this picture of his dad's Brockways in front of his garage up by Wilkes Barre Pa. I thought you might like to see. Did you by any chance know John Griffin from Masher St in Philly? He ran a bunch of older Brockways, straight jobs, tractors, and 2 wreckers. Some with wooden cabs up until he died in the late 90's