Model T delevery - Challenge build 2016

Started by bparrish, September 15, 2016, 01:36:43 AM

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bparrish

Jim........... 

Thanx for the photo link.  It could have been the same body builder.  Many early trucks were chassis and drive train only and the purchaser put on a body of choice.

The one you linked is an early twenties REO.  REO comes from Ransom E. Olds, of Oldsmobile fame.  After Olds sold his car company to William Durant of GM, he went next to the truck industry and uses his initials for the make name.

Reo survived through WWII and later had a resurgence in the truck tractor business.

The best part of those early REO trucks was that the dash was the gas tank.  Looking at how things work today.......... OSHA would be apoplectic with this truck.

Thanx again
Bob
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