Showing posts with label Diamond T. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diamond T. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
the biggest problem with Tuesday morning at SEMA? Too damn many booths have car covers over the cool stuff because they want to have "reveals" at some appointment time
Monday, October 13, 2025
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Friday, April 07, 2023
New Zealanders Steve and Sue Keys have spent the last five years in a spectacular resurrection of what may be the last Texaco Diamond T Fuel Truck
Texaco, Standard Oil and Socony had their own small fleets of Dodge Airflow trucks
But not all Texaco trucks were Dodge Airflows. Mack and International chassis reportedly served as the basis for other Texaco tankers of the Thirties, as did Diamond T.
Detroit-based Garwood Industries, Kansas City-based Standard Steel Works and Milwaukee-based Heil Co. all built trucks for the Texaco fleet - and each built the tankers slightly different, making the restoration of the Diamond T anything but straightforward.
It originally was a fuel truck in South Carolina, where the Texaco distributor used it for local fuel deliveries before eventually selling the truck to an adjacent lumber mill.
The lumber mill then used it as a water tank truck in its yard until 1980, when the lumber mill closed and a salvage yard bought it.
The operator of that salvage yard then stored it at a friend's place and had to buy it back from that friend's estate before offering it for sale on eBay in 2010.
A couple owners, one cross-country trip, and a trans-Pacific boat ride later, it ended up in New Zealand
With everything coming together in the fall of 2022, the Keys scheduled the Diamond T's debut for the Ellerslie Concours d'Elegance in February 2023. Unfortunately, Cyclone Gabrielle hit New Zealand's North Island that same weekend, leading the concours to be postponed. While they still plan to present the Diamond T at the concours, they've since privately unveiled the completed truck and have arranged to place it in the Classics Museum in Hamilton, New Zealand, until the concours's new date in late April.
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Sunday, May 08, 2022
I could spend hours in this farm's abandoned car area just taking patina photos
See what I mean? Anyway, these are all screen grabs from a video, which is in this post at the end
the narrator and his friends are so annoying I recommend that you turn the sound all the way off. Trust me. You don't want to hear him for the 100th time say how he knows nothing about cars, or "look at this" for the thousandth time. Put some music on you like, instead
Sunday, December 01, 2019
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