huh, 1st time I've seen this. Was there really that much money or sponsorship in the national Soapbox Derby racing? To buy a Pullman 5th wheel?

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/691/

a Ford parts salesman in 1937 stopping into a service station, that sold Ford gasoline. I didn't even know Ford was part of a gasoline business

A parts salesman for Parkinson-Neal Motor Co., a Ford dealership in Enid, Okla., makes a sales visit to a gas station and repair facility in that state. The traveling store would visit rural repair shops to restock Ford parts needed for repairs. It is unclear whether the gas station and garage were part of Ford's "Super Service Stations" that serviced vehicles and sold gasoline, parts, accessories and new Ford cars. The Parson's Super Station does appear to sell Ford's Benzol gasoline.

https://www.autonews.com/fixed-ops-journal/fixed-time-selling-parts-1937

Bantam with a 5th wheel?

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2013488009095496&set=gm.27872911828966691&idorvanity=1464654713552429

A weird and neglected trailer with VW wheels turned out to be a 1960s Wo Wi VW trailer

an SO14 trailer is an original accessory package, acutally just a transport axle, offered in the 60’s through the VW dealerships. 

Back then it cost around 750 euro / 700 pounds.

This trailer and turntable were produced by “Gebruders Wolperding” in Winsen in Germany. That’s where the “WOWI-trailer” name is based on. It can be combined with a single cab or a double cab. The turntable was fitted on the load bed and the trailer on a regular tow bar. In this configuration, long materials up to 7 metres could be legally transported.

https://coolflo.co.uk/blogs/cool-flo-collective/from-childhood-dreams-to-reality

check this out... a 40 ford, with a 5th wheel... and maybe that's a Curtiss Aerocar trailer

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227417922058462&set=gm.6227238320644313

1940s New York Aspca horse ambulance

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1940s-aspca-ambulance-carries-an-ailing-vintage-images.html?product=face-mask-flat

a thing of mechanical excellence is a joy forever

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10229881090596136&set=gm.7445435025491297&idorvanity=2116167295084790

in that narrow window between horse drawn pumpers, and motor powered self propelled fire trucks... 1925

 https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM127408

great use of the recently invented 5th wheel

not many people go to the extra effort to make a nice car and trailer combo, and this has a vintage 5th wheel Thanks 914 Driver!

 

Purchased at the Packard dealership in Albany, NY. The couple only wanted the car but it was already set up for the camper so it went home, into a barn and never came out. They had to remove a few trees to get the doors open.

it turns out I've posted the 5th wheel section of this car before https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2020/03/factory-curtiss-aerocar-packard.html

and I think I posted this car before, without the trailer https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/barnfind-20s-packards.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/676841185784386/?multi_permalinks=2396318553836632

interesting, but other than go to car and truck shows, can you do anything with it?

 
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/can-we-please-stop-hotlinking-pics/20411/page3778/

Thanks Steve! 

the bullshit truckers had to put up with, licensed and registered in every state, I'm looking at all those license plates... and now? Anyone from Mexico can cross the border with a truck and trailer, and drive anywhere, without an American drivers license, is teh way I understand it. No smog check, no American insurance, etc etc . All the crap American truckers have to do. Am I wrong, 'cause I'm sure as hell uneducated on the topic, and always looking to learn from those of you who know what's what

and I'm not racist towards Mexicans, some of my good friends are Mexican, I'm just still pissed at Clinton passing NAFTA and screwing the American truckers (of which I'm related to several) by allowing competition in from other countries who aren't good for a trucker trying to earn a living driving... also, the increase in pollution by loading up on fuel in Mexico, which isn't regulated to the standard of fuel purchased in California (or Arizona, or Texas)

Look at all those damn license plates. That's bullshit. Ditto the long list on the door, box behind the cab, and front of the trailer. 

Anyway, if you know about the topic, feel free to share some info (Facts please, not opinion, I'm all full of uninformed opinion) with me and the other readers

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc-cohort/cohort-vintage-photography-a-gallery-of-1955-1957-new-chevy-trucks-and-a-few-others/

Gary shared:

Multiple license plates have not been required for 28 years on big trucks with two exception I believe. Trucks are not generally required to have smog checks per se as modern trucks have have systems that basically have cleaner air coming out of the stacks than going in the engine. White smoke is just water vapor. Mexican drivers allowed to cross the border usually require licensing in both Mexico and the US. The drivers for the past 20 years coming from Mexico usually have attended modern truck driving schools in Mexico that make them familiar with our laws and log requirements. Drivers who only operate only in Mexico may be a different story. I covered the crossing of Mexican trucks from Laredo to Texas one day and took 500 plus photos for a leading truck magazine and only saw one truck in shabby condition and it was a truck that just shifted trailers from the US to Mexican warehouses on the other side of the border and never go past the 18 mile limit in Texas. I also live in a area with trucks from Mexico are quite common and never see a difference between those rigs and our own. However sometime local truckers hauling low paying gravel and scrap do have have rigs that are somewhat shabby, but again they are just local trucks. And as far as I can tell the only big rigs that have been caught hauling illegals have be US trucks and drivers acting on their own accord not with permission of the owners of the trucks.

wouldn't it be damn cool to drive cargo around in this? Well, after you add AC and a good radio with XM, and a subwoofer. I mean, lets have a blast while driving... right?

https://i2.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15748429739_bc3371c2d3_k.jpg

interesting tow truck, no bed just a 5th wheel

 wouldn't you think the bell would disturb the horses?

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-125#post-13194447

Factory Curtiss Aerocar Packard roadster 5th wheel

https://www.facebook.com/packardapproved/posts/2548873298538457

Wild Torquey from Tinman 2 Kustoms has a hell of a cool gooseneck, and a kick ass call board made from a mechanics creeper!

this is the 1st time I've seen a call board made from a creeper... that is a damn good idea! It's inherently in the mechanics tools used in a garage on cars, and has the sizeable flat space for the credits and info

hell of a cool steering wheel!

the Adams Motor Bungalo purported to be the "Original 5th Wheel" dating back to 1917.

http://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2014/09/the-adams-motor-bungalo-original-5th-wheel-circa-1917.html

the hot rod flamejob 5th wheeled drag racing matched set of the Trotters Car Club

https://www.facebook.com/groups/getting.there/
http://stiffspeed.co.uk/

wow, a lot of cool happening in this 1931-34 photo... a Sikorsky S40, at Dinner Key, Florida ... and a Curtiss Aerocar trailer on a Model A used as a taxi

the Red Top Cab company, I found nothing on the internet about it. Jeffrey reminded me the trailer was a Curtiss Aerocar, which I'd forgotten, though I've posted many in the past http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=aerocar and says Pan Am owned 4 of them, 12 passenger size... but he didn't remark on the Red Top Cab Co... so I don't know if that means this was a cab company that was or wasn't part of Pan Am

And that seems to be the Caribbean Clipper with PAA, the Pan American Airways system

this last photo looks like a Jack Vettriano painting
http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=16352&finish=15&start=75

http://www.panam.org/about-pahf/paa-a-brief-history

take another look at a Sikorsky S 40 to see how interesting the tail section and frame is

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=16352&finish=15&start=225

Dinner Key was originally an island in Biscayne Bay, which was connected to the mainland with fill in 1914.

 In 1917, the Navy chose the site at Dinner Key to become the first continental Naval Air Station in the country. The base was commissioned the following year, and conducted flight training with 12 seaplanes and a single dirigible.

After the end of WW1, the Navy vacated Dinner Key, but the seaplane facility continued in operation by commercial operators. The New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Airline began service from Dinner Key in 1929. That airline was merged with Pan Am the following year. Pan Am operated an extensive route structure from Dinner Key in the 1930s.

in 1934 Pan Am put in an art deco passenger terminal

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/FL/Airfields_FL_Miami_C.htm

all the luxury that could be bought, 1932 Graham-Paige Blue Streak Cup with Curtis Aerocar Land Yacht caravan trailer

American banker Hugh McDonald used this luxurious combination in the early 1930s to be driven from his estate on Long Island to his office in New York.

The trailer resembles an airplane and was built in according with aviation building principles by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company in Florida

A lightweight, tubular metal frame is braced with wire cables. The interior is furnished with lightweight wicker chairs and a desk. The Aerocar’s nose looks like a cockpit and is fitted with a compass, barometer, altimeter, speedometer and swivelling floodlights. The galley features a refrigerator and there is also a lavatory with flushing toilet.

A rather unusual vehicle for daily use, but not to the American banker Hugh McDonald who used this luxurious combination in the early 1930s to be driven from his estate on Long Island to his office in New York. The semi-trailer resembles an aeroplane and was built in accordance with aviation construction principles by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company in Florida.

 A lightweight, tubular metal frame is braced with wire cables. The interior is furnished with lightweight wicker chairs and a desk. The Aerocar’s nose looks like a cockpit and is fitted with a compass, barometer, altimeter, speedometer and swivelling floodlights.

The galley features a refrigerator and there is also a lavatory with flushing toilet. The yacht was towed by a Graham Blue Streak fitted with a four-litre engine. A spare wheel was placed in the space normally occupied by the ‘dickey seat’. The towing pin of the trailer fits in a socket in the hub and the tire damped out the shocks while driving.

It's in the Louman Musuem http://louwmanmuseum.nl/en/Ontdekken/Ontdek-de-collectie/graham-blue-streak-coupe-and-curtiss-aerocar-land-yacht

Found on https://www.facebook.com/pages/Time-Travelers-come-travel-back-in-time/284477301577152