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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/
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Model Pinnochio.
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I think you’re supposed to see a doctor if it lasts more than 4 hours
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This is what happens when a customer wants Pe terbilt power with cabover turning radius.
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Now there are load distribution regulations preventing that sort of thing, for very good reason.
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You mean it's not ok for a bobtail truck to potentially tip forward under heavy braking?
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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.