some strange stuff was made in the 60s

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1279791319611808&set=a.930702274520716

I wonder why the photographer was waiting on the highway to photograph the transporter

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/335/

great COE with a lot of cool custom touches

This is a truck made/owned by a Navy senior chief, and he did a cool job of displaying his unit patches around the back window. They look better on a patch jacket, that's what I did with mine, but it's rare that it's ever cold enough here in San Diego to wear it. 

real nice COE, great to find a big tow truck with such perfect lettering

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=9059210260847451&set=gm.1413511789826653&idorvanity=319578812553295

How is there enough space in there for a seat belt buckle, and how did they hide an engine under that cab?

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=24608101868775920&set=gm.1527928001816354&idorvanity=226675368608297

Originally a fire truck purchased at a farm auction in northern Minnesota. Cab paint, interior and tires are original. This has been shortened with a 7ft pickup bed.

https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43327-jim-macfadden-s-tractors-from-all-over-collection-part-ii

if you could drive this as a daily commuter, why wouldn't you? That would be great! I wonder what COE pick ups would look like if they had continued to make, design, and evolve them

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com  who often has the coolest stuff to look at. I look every day to see what the new stuff is, every day

they did such a good job with the 54 COE

 

I think this would look cooler without the Dagmars

 

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/02/unique.html

It's rare and fantastic to see someone has made a new matched set

 https://mecanicien.tumblr.com/image/189296121201

Pro Rock Engineering is the winner of the King Builder of the 2024 IMX (Indonesia Modifications Expo) contest in Indonesia! Thank you DD29 for letting me know about this!

This is NOGO BONDO a masterpiece based on Toyota Dyna highly modified by MakingCars.id ProRockEngineering built in just 2 months, and succeeded in becoming the winner at IMX 2024

2.5 months from start to finish!

 

https://www.instagram.com/prorockengineering/reel/DAr8etsPLd6/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DB7y0xZz6_5/?hl=en&img_index=1

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063642964963

'51 COE pulled out of the woods WITH the trailer

it is a long boring video though  https://youtu.be/ZGCTY9EfGNI

Someone made the first electric COE

interesting and a bit aerodynamic. Willéme LD610 circa mid-1950s - France

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=395469940150852&set=a.174812662216582

I don't think I've seen a COE converted to rail service before

https://forum-auto.caradisiac.com/topic/376665-photos-des-trains-avec-des-anciennes/page/53/#comments

COE tow truck on standby to make money if anyone kills their car passing through the flooded road

https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AZNIPCCQL54HGJ8R/full/AUCP7V44HZ2YQP8E

Ford found in a forest

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1326929511324796  for the video walk around

interesting, has a Roth grill ornament

I dig the turn signals, the fog lights on the bumper, the side panels on the side of the grill, and did you see how huge the headlights are? 

here's one reason polarized lenses are important, reflections suck and obscure the thing you want to see clearly in a photograph

cool 1967 GMC COE with a custom sleeper and twin-turbo Detroit Diesel 12V92 . The cab is only 48 inches deep

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-ultimate-gmc-crackerbox-project-truck-with-a-v12-detroit-is-just-waiting-to-be-finished

so, COEs are now part of maternity photos, and it's not a prank to see if we are gullible, these are legit.

In a 2019 interview with Brazilian website Universo Online, the woman pictured, Diana Rodrigues of Mato Grosso, Brazil, explained how the truck represented the financial hardships her parents endured in order to raise a family. 

“My parents’ honeymoon took place on the road, in a truck. Not only because of the profession, but also because of the financial conditions, which were not the best,” Rodrigues offered. “During the entire pregnancy, my mother traveled with my father [and] three months after I was born, we hit the road again. […] The truck is part of our lives and could not be left out.”

this is an award winner   https://julie-jolie.de/baby-photo-awards/  from Juliana Koennecke in Germany

https://twitter.com/misskittyf/status/1301953241459154944/photo/1

https://www.facebook.com/TheOnlyWayisTrucking/photos/396981421776351/

https://marcostoledo.alboompro.com/post/45835-ensaio-de-gestante-incrivel

https://www.willianbarbosafotografia.com.br/portfolio/ensaios-gestantes/956681-alexia-adilson-antony

https://www.mandatory.com/culture/1576758-meanwhile-on-social-media-semi-truck-maternity-photos-have-us-questioning-everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-sex-and-the-birthing-process