Best truck, motorhome and trailer pictures
 

How about the best truck trailer combination, ramp truck, box truck, any type of combination of truck trailer you've had in the past to now. I know that nobody can beat drag racing ingenuity for transporting cars to the race track. I can remember Chuck Rayburn going across America in his blue Ford diesel pick up and open trailer in his Champinship year, Toby Lang in his Ramp truck with his trailer on the back, all great set-up. The Armstrong Brothers always had great haulers an MCI Bus and a GMC Astro tractor with living quarters and box.

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The craziest thing I ever saw was in Division 7...at Pomona in 2006...a guy had converted a U-Haul truck into a car hauler. It had a small lounge with a hoist mounted on the back and an orange stocker on the bottom and an orange SS car on top...both stick cars I think...Cudas I believe....Incredible....I have a picture somewhere....

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That'd be Tom Watts.

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2010 Winternationals

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Are you saying that he carries two cars on that truck? Lifts the one and puts the other under it? Wow...I would like to see a picture with it loaded. Does anyone have a good photo of Armstrongs truck? I heard it is very well layed out.

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Interesting photo.
It almost looks like a 4 post lift welded to that truck frame.
Slick setup.
My concern would be the car up on top moving around during transport.

I wonder if anyone has ever made one of those school bus conversions look cool ?

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Thanks Joe for that great picture of exactly what CBS was talking about. Here's some more. From Racing junk.

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Circa 1974, this is what I built to take my Nova to E-town and NY National. It was a old 1956 2-ton Coca-Cola truck I bought from the bottler in Bethlehem, PA and had Grubb Brothers Automotive in Hellertown weld the center section of an old car hauler to it. I moved to Florida about 2 years later and installed a 396/360 in it to replace the terrible 6 that kept eating distributors at an alarming rate. Shoulda kept it, but it was tough finding a place I could park! Can't keep 'em all!:D

Lew

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Are we just posting pictures of stuff that is for sale on Racingjunk now?

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WHY......does it matter where the pictures came from ???

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No secret I am kinda partial to these dinosaurs:

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and the worst condition enclosed truck I ever saw-still couldn't keep myself from making a ridiculous low ball offer on it, but he wouldn't take 2500.00

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Lew, did that old truck have those goofy really skinny 18" wheels and tires?Being an original 6 cyl. truck, I would imagine it was sporting some pretty steep rear end gearing too!

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Rory,

If I remember right it had something like 19.5 one-piece rims and used the same tires the U-haul vans used. It had a 6-something (mountain gear) one speed rear axle, which was fun with the big-block, but ran out of rpm's rather quickly! 56 MPH all-out :)!

Lew

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Here's a side shot of Armstrong's hauler. Truck, living quarters and race car, all in one unit. George Cottel had one that was very similar, however, I don't think George finished the living quarters area. George drove his like it was a hot rod. He used to leave Atco and you could hear him snatching gears all the way down Jackson Road. Sounded like an 18 wheeler. Hauling butt!

JC

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There's a lot of neat stuff out there, but one that's somewhat different approach is Bob and Craig Marshall's crewcab Navistar pulling a 5th wheel trailer with two cars bumper to nose. I think it has a lounge in front too.

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this is from Class racer pictures, really original truck and trailer.

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this one is for sale, built from a 1958 chevy fire truck, with its original 348 and completely primitive stg and brake systems intact--near st louis--30K!

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I want the Jeep.

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Ed..........You would look good in that Jeep Lol.

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One of the more interesting rigs I have ever seen was. Alan Armstrongs rig He had a grey hound bus he had converted to a hauler with sleeping quarters at the front. The interesting part was the side of the bus opened up, they swung an engine crane looking thing out the side and hooked on to an Eyelet that was screwed into the front of the roll cage. Lifted the car up and swung in into the bus.. He at the national even t sanair, Cruz pedregon stoped his crew on the way back from a run so he could watch them do it.

Hell now they have Motorhomes that you could put a race car under the chassis..

http://www.worldcarfans.com/10902051...ar/lowphotos#0

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Steve the first time I saw both Armstrongs rigs at Sanair I was quite taken by the ingenuity of both brothers. I'm trying to find some pics of his MCI bus, but since my computer crashed I've been having problem retrieving some of the old pictures. Ed you could always run the jeep in Super Stock it would be a match for your Stocker. Claude

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Kevin that is a very beautiful truck. Here's how some of the pro's in the 70's hauled their cars.

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Here you go, this truck was originally Arlen Vanke's truck Chysler had made for him, then Jeg's bought it from him, then we bought it from Jeg's now its sitting in a farm field outside of Mansfield rotting away.

The hauler with the Nova is how we first got around, my brothers and myself rode in this nova all over the country touring AHRA & IHRA events in the 70's

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@ Kevin...that hauler looks as good or better than some of the stuff at the track today; even has a lounge in front.

What happened that you sold it?

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me too me too-what happened with it? that is one of the nicest enclosed/no trailer rigs I have ever seen, much nicer than theold junk I am always messing with

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How about this one I saw in Denver last week (not at the races).

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Wow,that's having your cake and eating it too.

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Ed if we had that one we could put both car in it Lol.

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Here is one from 1971

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Saw this one for sale locally last year. Thought about it, but didn't.

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Gene Pearson's (Impossible Dream 67 Camaro B/MP) school bus conversion was the best. Heck, he even raced it down the 1320 once and won a trophy at Minnesota Dragways.

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Here's one from the York Reunion - Bill Jenkins' Oleynik-bodied hauler sitting in the car show area. It's for sale, but I'm sure the asking price is way up there, given the Jenkins' connection. In the day this was "top-of-the line"!

Lew

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Wow, those are some great photos. I love the U-haul conversion, especially the fact that he kept the U-haul colors and even has "Mom's Attic" still on it! I used to daydream about building a similar one from a 26' U-haul, but leaving the garage area enclosed. I figured on building some ramps to keep the nose of the car up for clearance while loading, and storing stuff like spare motor & trans underneath.

Does anyone remember the school bus conversion used by "Horrible Herb" on the West Coast in the 1980's? He had an Opel GT S/G car, and the conversion had an open rear area (similar to the U-haul above minus the lift), and the rest of the bus was living quarters, but still painted as a school bus.

I remember in the later 80's we had a pit vote for the ugliest tow rig (mostly confined to Super-Gas, we were bored waiting for our turn at a national event). In the running was my truck (primer-nose 1973 Blazer), Kris LaPoint's ramp truck, Ted Seipel's ramp truck, Don Elgin's ramp truck, and Horrible Herb's bus. I think Herb won, but I got an honorable (dishonorable?) mention.

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I hope nobody will mind but I took this from another post, really nice setup. Also I love ramp trucks and trailers picture someone posted that this is the best way to see race cars

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Hey I remember hangin out in this truck as a kid with Shari Dondero (Kenny's ex wife), Sonny Bryant, and Bill Bagshaw!!! Those were some fun days.

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Here's a couple of pics from Class racer. I'd love to see more open trailers and any original set ups.

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This one is for sale on RJ right now-one of the nicest of these I have seen.

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Here is our old set-up for my Dad's '53 Studebaker race car we used for the last 20 years that I inherited to tow my future race car with. '73 Dodge Sportsman motorhome with homemade open trailer what a sweet set-up... :~).
Thanks Brian '65 HEMI Valiant

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Nice truck , here are a few pictures from NHRA Phil Burgess in his insider's blog on the NHRA site, nice article.

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Those Tommy Ivo see through haulers were always sooooo cool!