1933 Ford BB truck

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Scroll back to see the other one I moved. This one is the open cab and the other has the closed cab retrofitted.
I've never seen the Ambulance version in person.
I have more IHC's to move.
 
Shirley had an open cab in his bone pile. Had to rebuild part of it, due to rust, but there it was. The side floorboards were the same from closed cab to open cab, so the closed cab was of use to me. Up til late 42, they had the civilian gauge panel. After the military standardization requirement, all had the universal round gauges.

There were only 800 ambulances built. Boyertown built the knock down bodies for them. Funny story; Shirley wanted to take a few of his IHs to Hawaii to a MV show. He knew the owners of a barge company in Coos Bay. They let him drive his trucks onto the logs on the barge. He rode along to Hawaii.
 
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Did you live in Oregon near Shirley? I remember him and liked him.

Are the two pictures of your truck or trucks? or was one Shirley's?

I love your bio line!
 
We lived in Grants Pass. Took a trip to the central coast. Driving north of North Bend, there appeared a sign advertising WW2 vehicle tours of the dunes and a 155 Long Tom. Had to investigate. Ended up meeting Shirley that day. I described the IHC I had spotted. He told me it was an ambulance and to get it. Made many parts runs to his place. One of the last times I got a ride in the dunes on his M60 tank. He and his buddies had just stabbed a NOS engine in it. Great guy!

Restored ambulance is Shirley’s, that’s him in the seat After he died his collection, or some of it, ended up in PA, I believe.
 
Auction haul - Two vintage Cummins engines and some other junk.
One 401 ci J130 24 valve Cummins and one V8 470 Cummins with 4 valves per cylinder. both supposed to run well. $160 each.
 

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Speaking of the Studebaker beds. I would love to know why the stock one owner all original 36 Dodge pickup I had used the exact same bed as Studebakers. Any thoughts out there?
 
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Speaking of the Studebaker beds. I would love to know why the stock one owner all original 36 Dodge pickup I had used the exact same bed as Studebakers. Any thoughts out there?
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Did you mean to ask that here? I'll take a guess. Budd manufacturing made lots of truck bodies and I'd guess that they were bought from Budd.
 
Chevy43,
post 13 and 14 had a ref to the Studebaker bed.
Your doing some good work with the old Ford!
Thanks for the updates.
Regards,
Chris and Cheryl
 
I'm trying to improve the Ford Bendix brakes.

I cleaned them and sanded the shoes. The shoes feel quite hard to me and there is a lot of brass wire in them.
 

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I didn't see anything wrong other than broken brake springs which I replaced.

Drums are smooth and clean and within .015" larger than 14 inches so they are in great shape.

I definitely broke the glaze on the shoes and cleaned everything.

I really wonder if it is the right lining.
 

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The brakes may say Bendix but they look more like Lockheed style to me which means they don’t self energize, I thought Ford didn’t go to self energized brakes until 1949.
 
corvette8n said:
The brakes may say Bendix but they look more like Lockheed style to me which means they don’t self energize, I thought Ford didn’t go to self energized brakes until 1949.
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Thanks for your comment because it got me doing some research:

From this article: https://forums.aaca.org/topic/77546-early-automobile-brakes-1918-to-1942/

Bendix opened a plant in South Bend, Ind. and began the manufacture of his Bendix mechanical four-wheel brakes. Production climbed from 650,000 brakes in 1926 to 3.6 million in 1928 mostly in supplying Bendix mechanical brakes to General Motors.

In the 1920's there were two schools of thought about the mechanical vs hydraulic brakes as to what was the better brake.

Bendix argued that mechanical brakes did not have any fluids "to leak out all over the garage floor." and that they were sure, safe and reliable.

Lockheed claimed the safety of equal application of force at each wheel made hydraulic better able to control skidding. The said there were no complicated mechanical rods and cables to stretch. They claimed rust and dirt made mechanical brakes unreliable, did not last long without problems, and were dangerous and in need of constant maintenance.
 
Malcolm Lockheed died poor about 5 miles from where I sit right now:

Malcolm Lockheed sold his brake company to Bendix in 1932 for $1,000,000 and returned to California, and, ever the optimist, began gold mining again at his Ilex mine. He lived the last twenty-nine years of his life at Mokelumne Hill, in Calaveras County, CA. eventually forced to become a welfare recipient until his death on August 13, 1958. It was a sad end for a great--if stubbornly independent--inventor and entrepreneur.
 
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