Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 11/12/2018 at 09:30 • Filed to: None

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Monday morning. Time to gas up and get going.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 11/12/2018 at 09:47

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That’s a fun photo.

Did I send you an OBDII reader device?

InFierority Complex > ttyymmnn 11/12/2018 at 09:48

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Have fun with that. It’s my Friday night.

ETA: Shorpy is a really great site.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 11/12/2018 at 09:58

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Some years later (1957) , Mack used a Ford body stamping (from Budd, available by Ford’s permission) to make a cabover, and it would be possible to recreate this photo with both trucks nearly looking the same.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/12/2018 at 10:01

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Making things more interesting, the cab was also used by the Four Wheel Drive company to make an offroadable truck:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/12/2018 at 10:03

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The H-series Ford was the same cab picked up much higher with different grill:

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/12/2018 at 10:03

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A long time ago. I need to find it.

ttyymmnn > InFierority Complex 11/12/2018 at 10:04

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Shorpy is awesome.

smobgirl > ttyymmnn 11/12/2018 at 10:04

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Nah, it’s snowing. Not going anywhere.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/12/2018 at 10:06

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Budd made airplanes, too.

This is the Budd Conestoga. I actually wrote about it a few months ago.

ttyymmnn > smobgirl 11/12/2018 at 10:06

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Snow might be nice (once in a while). Austin is expecting the first freeze of fall tonight. It’s a bit earlier than past years.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > ttyymmnn 11/12/2018 at 10:09

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I wish gaspimpd were still good looking. 

ttyymmnn > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/12/2018 at 10:16

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gas pumps?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 11/12/2018 at 10:16

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A lot of people don’t realize the role Budd played in bringing about the modern automobile. Sure, everybody’s stampings were different, but at the end of the 20s nearly everybody was using Budd toolings, Budd process, or copying Budd systems used by competitors. Budd was even operating overseas, and even small concerns realized they needed to go Budd to stay modern - the FWD Cord contemporary Ruxton used Budd setup left over/ second-hand from the UK manufacturer Wolseley.

A famous sales demonstration Budd conducted was to roll a Budd-process-bodied car down a 40ft or so dirt hill and see it emerge almost intact at the bottom - a demonstration that thick-bodied heavy-stam p ing cars of the era could ironically better pull off than some of the lightweight tin of 20 years later...

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > ttyymmnn 11/12/2018 at 10:18

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 no  gas pimps

Nom De Plume > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/12/2018 at 10:28

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For lot lizards?  

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/12/2018 at 10:28

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So why did they disappear?

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 11/12/2018 at 10:40

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Grumble, grumble...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 11/12/2018 at 10:54

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You could argue Budd was a victim of its own success. They proverbially “taught a man to fish” all over the auto industry and then ended up as a specialist railcar and parts maker. If Ford and GM and Chrysler learned everything that could be taught and then built their own huge body divisions, there’s not much place for an outside contractor... and all the small makes who were in a place to use outside contracting on body design mostly dried up.