the Ford Fairmont Durango, wasn't a factory-built machine. National Coach - a custom-car builder based in Gardena, California - built about 212 of them, and this one Mercury Zephyr was made into this Mercury Durango

https://fordauthority.com/2026/03/extremely-unique-1979-mercury-durango-heading-to-auction

this Power Wagon Dodge is a pretty uncommon sight around here, and rust free

and it's got the spare tire door on the side of the bed. I remember posting about that a couple months ago, but it was a Ford https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/12/f-350-super-camper-special-powered-by.html

1896, Gottlieb Daimler made the world’s first truck looked like a cart with an engine and without a drawbar. What set it in motion was a “Phoenix” engine with a displacement of 1.06 liters. Daimler linked it to the rear axle with a belt.

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/594

one of those rare photos of a cool mobile salesmen's sample trucks that displayed the newest latest most effective contraptions

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/582/

Goodrichs test trucks, note the one on the left has a couple BIG tires strapped down

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/543/

custom pick up box adaptation on a 1927 Buick Standard Sport Roadster.

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/681

F 350 Super Camper Special, powered by the 460 1973-79

extra large radiator, larger alternator, bigger rear axle, 9 rear leaf springs on each rear axle, anti-sway bar. Hauling capacity is 9900 pounds. 

two batteries in the engine cab and two solenoids so you could turn the ignition key to the left and not drain your starter battery. 

Spare tire hidden behind the panel 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1342327822501237/permalink/25487054007601948/

really eye catching VW light truck, victim of the Chicken Tax... I wonder if this is stock length, or is it stretched?

In retrospect, audio tapes from the Johnson White House revealed a quid pro quo unrelated to chicken. 

In January 1964, President Johnson attempted to convince United Auto Workers' president Walter Reuther not to initiate a strike just before the 1964 election, and to support the president's civil rights platform. 

Reuther, in turn, wanted Johnson to respond to Volkswagen's increased shipments to the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Type_2

looking good and eighties in the Mickey Thompson booth

 

quite unusual, as you'd expect from something that stands out at SEMA... a 65 Datsun double seat truck

 

the Back to the Future car detailing business Biff ran

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=33166903802908699&set=p.33166903802908699&type=3

incredible... a Ranger 4x4 that stayed with it's first owner since 1989 and they didn't driver it, and didn't ignore it, they kept it beautiful, and only sold it months ago to someone flipping it on Bring a Trailer

current bid, 10k

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1989-ford-ranger-7/
https://fordauthority.com/2025/10/1989-ford-ranger-xlt-with-8k-miles-up-for-auction

I fact checked this... it's amazing and true

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10165232582727985&set=gm.3276575939166861&idorvanity=2040555499435584

This man's name is Calvin Vincent, and he has a 1977 model Chevy truck. 

This is what he said," I bought this truck new in 1978 at Mayville Motor Company in North Dakota. I have used it in my construction business ever since then. This truck has pulled equipment on construction trailers, and has been a work horse for the last 29 years. The transmission was replaced once, and the short block twice, but most of this truck is still original. I still use it everyday. I have had a long-lasting and rewarding experience with my Chevrolet."

2048402/29=70634.6 miles per year

if that truck got 16 mpg 2048402/16=128025.125 gallons of diesel run through that engine

at an average of 2 bucks a gallon 128025.125x2=236050.25 bucks spent on diesel alone

"We'd been diddlin' around, and Kenny thought that I should try a diesel because he knew I put on a lot of miles," he said.

But he wondered if he had a lemon on his hands when Kenny Forsgren called a few months later to say his 1978 Scottsdale 10 half-ton pickup had been recalled.

Calvin, who operates Vincent Construction, got a new engine block and hit the road again, traveling all over the Great Plains, putting up steel buildings and grain elevators, as well as running ready-mix cement plants on construction sites from Brownsville, Texas, to the Canadian border.

"I'd put on 100- or 150,000 miles a year on that truck, easy," he said. "It never stopped running. I'd be in Montana one day and drive to Iowa the next, then go to Texas and back," he said. "I had 1 million miles on it before Kenny conned me into putting in a new 1985 diesel."

That old truck is still running today another 1 million-plus miles later.

Calvin has slowed down just a bit in the past few months, after a heart overhaul triple bypass surgery in June. He missed a trip to Texas in August, where he was one of nine people from across the country honored as a member of the Chevrolet Silverado 200,000-Mile Club.

That's 200,000, not 2 million. 

With mileage documentation to back it up, Kenny's son convinced Calvin to tell his story for the Chevy promotion. On Tuesday, he received another plaque from the company, presented at Finley Motors in Finley, N.D. Finley Motors now operates the former Mayville Motors.

"I was hoping they were going to give me a new truck," he joked.

Not that he really needs one.

"When I'm not working, I'm not driving," he said, "so I don't need anything else."

Calvin seldom trades his vehicles. The yard at his construction office in Hannaford is filled with old pickups and cement mixers, most of them Chevys. He still has the 1973 Chevy pickup he was driving when he bought his '78.

Besides the engine replacements, Calvin has had just one other major repair on the truck a transmission overhaul.

"The rear end's never been touched," he said.

Calvin says he's a Chevy, "like a rock."

He's been mayor of Hannaford for nearly 40 years and was re-elected last week to another term.

"I never ran once," he said. "I always won on write-ins," he said.

https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/2006/11/19/high-mileage-vehicle/117854104

https://www.grandforksherald.com/newsmd/the-diesel-that-wont-die

https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/article_236bd18f-8328-5241-94d8-97abb0f3dcd2.html

spotted on the 15 on the way to work 10 hours ago... I love this home built box topper

and the skid plate and pusher bar covers are cool too

 

If they don’t know how to fix it, I guarantee they know someone at their coffee shop hangout that does

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1558683045534706&set=a.400784041324618

1972 Chevrolet C20 Cheyenne 27k Original Miles bid to 42k...

Sold new in CT and only used for a camper. Parked in original owner’s garage for many years. Spent 15 years in a TX collection until coming to NY. Goes down the road at 60 mph with hands off. 350 cubic inch with 4 speed. Has dual fuel tanks plus rare bedside toolbox which is perfect.. Engine was rebuilt by the original selling dealer 20 years ago

  

 https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43327/lot/6749349-1972-chevrolet-c20-cheyenne-27k-original-miles

the factory built Nash prototype truck had a 1942 Nash 600 front clip and cabin up to the B pillar, where a panel was welded to the car body, to form the pickup cab.

The fabrication was placed on a 1936 Nash frame. Perfect Steel Body Co. provided a pickup box, and the rear fenders came from a 1941 Ambassador.

The prototype pickup was used by the Nash plant until it was gifted to a retiring engineer in the late 1950s. This engineer traded it in at a Wisconsin dealership, who then used it as a shop truck. 

Later, one of the dealership’s mechanics bought it for use on his farm. This mechanic’s son disassembled it, like Jim’s truck, for a long period of time. In 1980, Nash Club member Don Lope bought and reassembled it.

This is a different pickup, a 1954 that was originally a company truck for Nash’s Milwaukee body plant, and then this pickup was being used by Jensen Crankshaft of Kenosha until the late ’60s.

Since this was one of the few factory trucks, and then it had a 2nd life as a shop truck, it's twice as interesting as any Ford or Chevy. 

https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/the-rarely-seen-factory-1948-nash-pickup

I doubt anyone under 40 knows what a Nash is, and no one under 30 has seen one. 

Other than you and I, there probably are only a couple hundred people that think a Nash or a Hudson truck are interesting. 

rust free old trucks are still out there!

 

this.... is an outstanding new development in hooning, a 4 wheel drive truck in a huge bowl shaped pool(?) spinning donuts!

 

someone's commuter to get to work on the daily... sweet truck!