White Road Boss in Youngstown Ohio

[h67st]

The guy that sold me the Brockway also has this White for sale--$2,500. It looks very complete and not in too bad shape; it's been sitting for about 6 years. The owner passed away so no background info and no title. I will be up there on July 22 if anyone wants me to look at particulars. PM me if you are interested in buying (note that says interested in buying).

[67RModel]

Man....a long hood road boss in that condition for $2500. Seems like a good bargain to me if you are into Whites. You just hardly ever see one with a long hood..... I paid a good bit more than that for mine with a short hood not too long ago although it has a title. I wonder what it has for power. If I didn't already have one I would be all over this one. 

[mrsmackpaul]

Dont think long hood Road Boss was ever sold in Australia, well at least not that long 

 

Paul 

[h67st]

I was back up there and snapped a couple of engine photos.

[BOBWhite]

There Is a road boss a couple of blocks from me. I see it run a couple of times a year but it doesn't interest me very much, White killed Oliver and Moline back in the 80s and as a big Ag guy I still hate them for it. 

[mrsmackpaul]

3 hours ago, BOBWhite said:

There Is a road boss a couple of blocks from me. I see it run a couple of times a year but it doesn't interest me very much, White killed Oliver and Moline back in the 80s and as a big Ag guy I still hate them for it. 

And White farm machinery was never a good seller in Australia, they put to much plastic and crap on their farm gear, got to far away from what made Oliver good, dunno about Moline

 

Paul 

[BOBWhite]

1 hour ago, mrsmackpaul said:

And White farm machinery was never a good seller in Australia, they put to much plastic and crap on their farm gear, got to far away from what made Oliver good, dunno about Moline

I don't think they ever sold Moline's in Australia but I know Olivers and before that Hart Parr's were very popular down there. My great great grandpa sold Hart Parr's and we still got some advertising they sent him. One ad told of a Hart Parr they ran down in Australia for 9 days and 8 nights to break a world plowing record back in the 1920s. Tough machines 

[Mark T]

11 hours ago, h67st said:

I was back up there and snapped a couple of engine photos.

Small Cam. Not a 350. Hard to tell much more. That was a pretty nice truck in it's time AC power steering Jake extended hood. and look at that second ride enhancing shock . 

Edited July 27, 2022 by Mark T
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[Mark T]

That truck is in nice shape for the age of it and looks fairly complete. Hope it finds it's way to a White enthusiast 

[mrsmackpaul]

4 hours ago, BOBWhite said:

I don't think they ever sold Moline's in Australia but I know Olivers and before that Hart Parr's were very popular down there. My great great grandpa sold Hart Parr's and we still got some advertising they sent him. One ad told of a Hart Parr they ran down in Australia for 9 days and 8 nights to break a world plowing record back in the 1920s. Tough machines 

Moline was sold here right up until White took over

The latest ones I have seen look like a yellow and white Oliver

 

Paul

[Hayseed]

1 hour ago, Mark T said:

and look at that second ride enhancing shock . 

I had a Road Boss back in the Day that had the same twin Shock setup..!!

 

31 minutes ago, mrsmackpaul said:

Moline was sold here right up until White took over

The latest ones I have seen look like a yellow and white Oliver

Yep, From what I've seen Oliver tractors are far more common than Minneapolis  Moline's 

Father In-laws Neighbour has a Oliver & a Moline tractor which are identical apart from the Paint/Decals.. But White were pretty good at that sort of Thing. The Conventional Headers (Combines) sold Here were Italian ARBOS Badged as White...!

[mrsmackpaul]

3 hours ago, Hayseed said:

I had a Road Boss back in the Day that had the same twin Shock setup..!!

 

Yep, From what I've seen Oliver tractors are far more common than Minneapolis  Moline's 

Father In-laws Neighbour has a Oliver & a Moline tractor which are identical apart from the Paint/Decals.. But White were pretty good at that sort of Thing. The Conventional Headers (Combines) sold Here were Italian ARBOS Badged as White...!

And for people that dont live in Australia a header is the whole machine or what other countries call a combine

A combine in Australia  is what other countries call a seeder (did a combination of cultivate, seed, fertilize in the one pass

Headers are called that because up until the early 80s Australian farmers normally only took the heads off crops and left all the straw standing 

 

Paul

 

[Outbehindthebarn]

I tried to buy that Road Boss at least ten years ago. Guy that owned it was a contractor for fedex. Had all kinds of old iron. Farm equipment etc. I don’t think he really wanted to sell it even though it was advertised .. more like someone was onhis neck to let stuff go. Something was the matter with the clutch, truck wouldn’t move 

[mowerman]

i drove them back in the 70s for nissens bakery,,,i always have a soft spot for them....great looking rigs as well..i dont know why we dont see more of them at truck shows,seems they all just vanished...that one seems to be pretty clean..bob

[mowerman]

i remember sanborn and quinn transportation,had hundreds of them back in the day..bob

[Rusty Dog]

Is this road boss still for sale?

[Outbehindthebarn]

On 11/8/2022 at 9:43 AM, Rusty Dog said:

Is this road boss still for sale?

No.. He scrapped it. I was just there last week.. It was pretty rough, would have taken quite a lot to get roadworthy... but the hood was good. No title and wanted $2500. 

Edited April 28, 2023 by Outbehindthebarn

[67RModel]

Kind of a shame given its relative rarity but I guess you cant save them all. I'm just happy I found a nice one a little while back and was able to save it. Mine has a V8 screamer in it though. I almost decided several times to drag this one home since it was close to me but I refrained. I guess mine is worth a few pennies more now 😂.