A Lot Of Old Trucks

...Even the Henry Ford museum has a lot of old junk...

The last time we were there we were young. Older people wouldn't get around well in most of those large museums unless they have those pink scooters or newfangled E-Z-Go type electric wheel chairs.
But I do remember lots of old junk in the buildings and sheds.
At my age now I have to stop for a nap on the way out to get the mail!

 

Some more old trucks.









1939 Mack Jr.

 

Now this is neat. I don't think I have ever seen one before. Can't be many of them left around.

1939 Mack Jr.

 

The older I get the cuter even those ugly old trucks look. Sorta like old people!
That Mack Jr is like me. All bent out of shape, rusty, yet ready for some tender loving care and another road trip.

 

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1937-1938-mack-jr-half-ton-pickup.htm

 

Would have been a nice picture, without the usual clutter:



More Mack eye candy:



Who in their right mind can hate this?:



1938 Diamond T 80 eye candy:

 

Eye candy? More like pure eye sugar, straight out of the bag! That has a lot more style, for a '30s truck, than most of the Big 3's rigs.

 

The mint Karmann Ghia does pretty good on ice, until unplowed snow gets the best of it. An old truck rescues:

 

A spooky old blind truck:

 

Damn, that must be Thomas the Tank Engine's druggie cousin.

 

Looks like someone turned it into an RV then left it deep in the woods.

I see a geat project here.

 

An unknown beer delivery truck:

 

Ever heard of a Henschel?





...or a M.A.N.?:



Who needs a van or panel tuck, when you could, instead, party in a tire delivery truck?:



This unusual Büssing looks like a cross between truck and streetcar:



Here, we have a Krupp Titan:



A Büssing featuring a B.M.W. Isetta-type door:





A Büssing space-saving turbodiesel six-banger:

 

Yup, heard of Henschel, M.A.N. (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnburg, King County Metro Transit had a slew of M.A.N.-built articulated buses in the early '80s-mid '90s), as well as Krupp and Büssing. That flat-lying inline six reminds me of the Toyota flat inline four they had in the Previa minivan. Thank God for fuel injection.

 

I knew M.A.N. built buses. But, I didn't know Krupp did or that Büssing still did, up to the 80's.
Here's a Vomag, featuring a pedestrian-friendly steering gear- and column: