#strangetruckposting - Cyrano edition

Kinja'd!!! "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
03/19/2020 at 17:18 • Filed to: None

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This is what happens when you take a Diamond T with fairly nice lines, but which is just too slow, dangit, and slowly escalate systems of adding power until you have a Buick 300 with an automatic transmission hooked to the front of the original crank.

Hemmings has the scoop:

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2014/09/08/and-thats-the-truth-frank-gripps-twin-engine-diamond-t/


DISCUSSION (6)


Kinja'd!!! TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/19/2020 at 17:59

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Model Pinnochio.


Kinja'd!!! MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/19/2020 at 18:03

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I think you’re supposed to see a doctor if it lasts more than 4 hours


Kinja'd!!! If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/19/2020 at 18:52

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This is what happens when a customer wants Pe terbilt power with cabover turning radius.


Kinja'd!!! Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
03/19/2020 at 19:15

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Now there are load distribution regulations preventing that sort of thing, for very good reason.


Kinja'd!!! If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
03/19/2020 at 19:33

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You mean it's not ok for a bobtail truck to potentially tip forward under heavy braking?


Kinja'd!!! Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
03/19/2020 at 19:41

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Back then, men were real men and didn’t deal with any of this sissy all-sixteen-wheels-touching-the-ground crap.