I was looking at that too... is that also part of a truck frame attached to it, maybe, giving it structure to be vertical, and attached to the tow truck's framework? I wish it was still around to look at how they built it... must have been some back yard engineering of junkyard heavy duty parts... very impressive! I was shocked that I'd never seen anything online about this before. But, there is still so much that the 25 year old internet has to still have added to it, and it's still barely going to dent the amount of interesting things that have been made and accomplished between the coasts of any continent
I couldn't find anything else on the internet about Bergeron's Garage, Eddie Bergeron, and nothing about his tow trucks. To me it looks like the back of the truck is the front of a Fruehauf tractor trailer for cargo hauling, and since the yellow sheet tells us they did body and fender work, we know they were capable of building anything, even the cab, from scraps, or flat sheet metal. I just think it's the coolest tow truck, because it's so clearly handmade on the back half.
I'm looking at the cab, and see that the doors do not go to the bottom of the body, so, I'm guessing, based on that, and the fact that the earliest trucks in cargo trucking didn't have a back seat/bed area, that the cab is in fact, a car body. If you block the headlight and lower area of the truck from your view, doesn't it look like a 1930s big Chevy car?
Agreed.
ReplyDeleteI like how the big one appears to use an upright axle to swing the turret crane.
ReplyDeleteI was looking at that too... is that also part of a truck frame attached to it, maybe, giving it structure to be vertical, and attached to the tow truck's framework?
DeleteI wish it was still around to look at how they built it... must have been some back yard engineering of junkyard heavy duty parts... very impressive!
I was shocked that I'd never seen anything online about this before. But, there is still so much that the 25 year old internet has to still have added to it, and it's still barely going to dent the amount of interesting things that have been made and accomplished between the coasts of any continent
Does anyone know the make of the truck? What a great truck! Thanks
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find anything else on the internet about Bergeron's Garage, Eddie Bergeron, and nothing about his tow trucks.
DeleteTo me it looks like the back of the truck is the front of a Fruehauf tractor trailer for cargo hauling, and since the yellow sheet tells us they did body and fender work, we know they were capable of building anything, even the cab, from scraps, or flat sheet metal.
I just think it's the coolest tow truck, because it's so clearly handmade on the back half.
I'm looking at the cab, and see that the doors do not go to the bottom of the body, so, I'm guessing, based on that, and the fact that the earliest trucks in cargo trucking didn't have a back seat/bed area, that the cab is in fact, a car body.
DeleteIf you block the headlight and lower area of the truck from your view, doesn't it look like a 1930s big Chevy car?
notice the 3rd headlight mounted to the hood instead of a hood ornament
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