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Joseph Cummings

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  1. I'm not sure. Is Jimmy still alive? Bob Forepaugh used to have a pretty good relationship with him. He got lots of scrap from him. At least until the accident in Telford in 2003
  2. You know this guy?
  3. Reed & Hoopes had some neat stuff
  4. ,Here is a similar Philly area truck
  5. Back when I was a kid in like 1980 the guy I worked for had a C-114 tractor 290 cummins, 15 speed deep reduction. It was early 70's so it wasn't that old, but it was all primer spots and had a hole in the left fender about the size of your fist. Nobody wanted to drive it. One older guy "Marvin" who occasionally suffered from something he called "wine cramps" used to drive it real local loading trailers and bringing them back to the yard. So one weekend, I fixed the hole in the fender, sanded and primed it, then wet sanded it, and shot it in Mack Standard Red with some of that Kirker paint that mack sold for like 25 bucks a gallon. I'm no great painter, but the stars must have aligned or something and it came out beautiful. Then everybody wanted it, but no way was Marvin giving it up. He called it "My Pretty Red Truck" and actually started washing it, waxing it, and polishing the chrome
  6. I had a C-114 tandem dump in the 90's. I think it was like a 72 or 73. Set back axle. I liked it
  7. Not sure who did the stampings and assembled the cabs. But yeah they were the Drivers cab. I swapped parts between them. Franklin Smelting had an A Car dump that I put 2 cabs on. I kinda think one came off of a white or reo
  8. Nice set back axle Raider
  9. I wonder who built the cabs. Diamond Reo first used that R series IHC cab, and then the white cab. They never made their own
  10. Actually it was JDM. That was a division of James D Morrisey
  11. Oh yeah, I forgot about that guy in between white and osterlund. I think he was from down south
  12. Loyal Osterlund and Ray Houseal bought Diamond Reo. They built trucks in Harrisburg Pa actually for quite a while as "Giant Trucks". I remember in the 80's JD Morrisey bought some with air cooled Deutz engines
  13. Nothing new. During the Weimar Republic they were celebrating this. And they had hyperinflation too. This lady is burning money to keep warm
  14. Nice. I'd have it hung on the wall of my office
  15. That number doesn't sound right. Do you have a picture of this pump?
  16. You can't make this stuff up
  17. If they aren't put on right, and never lubricated, they don't work for chit. And they are never lubricated because modern mechanics are allergic to grease guns. Hell, just look at the pictures in this thread. New slack, no grease, not in the slack, not in the cam bushings, not in the U Joints,,,,, That's the modern way, need 20 torque wrenches and a micrometer to adjust a door hinge, 100,000 dollar snap on box, and not a grease gun in sight anywhere
  18. I hate auto slacks. I've seen too many not function properly. I want to get under the truck at least once a week with a wrench and a grease gun and have a good look around. Grease is cheap and easy to install, much cheaper and easier than replacing parts
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