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Franklin? I belive you mean Trevor

If I'm not mistaken, I believe those were made by Badger.

To quote Bender, Neat. Oddly enough, there was a real world Powell Motor Company, and fittingly enough this is what they built in this case the "Powell" that the company was named after was the owners first name, rather than last; Powell Crosley. Yes, the very same Crosley that brought us the Crosley micro car, Crosley Radios, and the Farm-O-Road. Just for the record, I almost bought a '48 Crosley woodie wagon, but passed on to look for a pickup.

Maybe a modern utility tractor or a vintage Deere/Farmall/Ford. But pretty much any modern farm tractor would vastly overload a 1/2 ton truck.

About $18, new.

Good looking ride you have there. I do notice something you'll want to get taken care of, though. The left front tire is installed on the wheel backwards. You'll want to get it flipped over so it rolls the proper direction, running a directional tire the wrong way will shorten its tread life, and can cause handling issues.. Whoever mounted it should have known better.

If you look closely at the filter on the second engine, you'll notice what looks to be a 1/4" tall aluminum peice at the top of the filter. That's the adapter for converting it to the later filter.

On '56-'67 Chevrolet V8s, they used a canister type filter. The housing had a large bolt that ran through the bottom of it into the block. To change the filter, the bolt was taken loose, and the entire canister was removed. Only the filter element and gasket were changed. Chevrolet went to the spin on style in '68 on V8s. There was both a GM adapter as well as several aftermarket adapters to convers the older engines to the newer style spin on. If you want to see the specific canister style filter, the element number is PF141 in AC, or CH200PL in Fram. The housing was generally black, though i have seen both blue and yellow variants that were factory.

We used to use them as a bulk supplier for oil change services, but when the contract ended, we went to Valvoline. In my own vehicles, I only use Valvoline, 10w30 Conventional in my Blazer, 20w50 VR-1 in my '55 3200.

Sounds like the members of the board at BP aren't drag racing fans. I think the'll learn pretty quick about "Win on Sunday, Sell On Monday", plus the fact that US motorsports fans tend to be a rabid bunch when it comes to loyalty to their favortite driver. Drop them as a sponser, they will NOT use the product, no matter how amicable the split was. This is especially true for a longtime sponsor that suddenly drops a driver/team. To be perfectly honest, I think some bean counter has realized that the company is not making money. So, instead of figuring out where the problem is, they simply cut the largest "unnecessary" expenditure, advertising. Mainly, cut the largest (and in this case, best exposure) contract. It will end biting them in the end as far as US sales are concerned.

None at my Wal Mart, nor at the 3 in the next town ever.

Definetly the latter! We have a local businessman that restores vintage planes, one of which is a P-51 (Lil' Margaret). I've seen him fly here, hard to beat the sound of a Merlin running wide open!

The Opel Blitz chassis would be no where close to stock for that truck. About the only part that might work for a stock build would maybe be the rear axle and springs, the rest is incorrect for a US spec GM truck after 1946. Even for the earlier trucks, much would need to be changed to make it correct.

Silver State Challenge, Big Red Camaro

I wouldn't be suprised to see that, either. That Cameo, which is already bid up more than it's worth, wil be the most likely to show up there, along with the '78 Corvette.

Used to have one in the mall near where I work, within 5 minuites walking distance. Since I usually walked over to the grocery store next to it on break, I usually went in there pretty much every day, sometimes twice in the same day. Since they closed (mall didn't want to deal with them on the lease), the nearest one is about 40 miles away. I usually try to go there if I'm over that way, but that's not ver often.

The Titan should work fine, but the LCF was not available as a Tandem axle from the factory. There were aftermakret conversions for them, most using a "dead" rear axle, meaning that only the forward rear axle drove, and the rearward axle was basically there to support the weight. Not sure what suspension is under the Titan kit, but a Hendrixson walking beam, which is found under most AMT semi truck kits, would be most accurate.

Just from what I can see, there's plenty of rust on many of the vehicles from sitting in the elements, even on the "new" ones. Plus, hard to tell what rodents and age has done to the interiors. I do see a couple that might be able to get away with a light resto, or evne used as is with minor mechanical freshening. But most are going to need complete restoration, engines, brakes, and transmissions gone through due to water damage, and even body work from the rust. I did also notice that most are not too far out on the bidding, but the "official" action is still a month away, so that will probably change.

I paid less than what most of those are going for when I bought my '55, and it was is far better condition, even after having been used a farm truck for 200k+ miles.

Unfotunatly, while they are "new" cars, every single one of them needs a complete restoration to undo all the damage caused by how they were stored. Personally, I wouln't buy any of them at the inflated auction prices. Now if they were selling them at the original sticker price, seeing as they were never sold in the first place, then I might be interested. Even then, I would haggle on the price due to the condition of the vehicles.

No problem. Old Chevy and GMC trucks, especially the '55-'59 models, are my favorite vehicles. I even have one, a '55 3200, as my daily driver. One more site you may want to check out, Stovebolt.coms Gallery. http://www.stovebolt.com/gallery/gallery%2056%2059.html There's several LCF trucks in there, some restored, some not. Might help give you a good ideas on weathering your build, especially where those trucks tend to rust.

Ok. In that case, the Ford L would be the best bet for a starting point. The Italeri Blitz really would not be correct for that new of a truck, they are a closer match, with much alteration, to a '41-'47 1 1/2 to 2 ton truck.

Here's a pic showing what the frame looks like for the LCF (It's the one on the bottom of the page) http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/chevyresto/56134.htm

What is going to be the final goal with the build? Replica stock? Custom? For a stock build, the Ford frame would be the closest to get a basic start. It should be noted, this cab will not build a factory 5700, there were no factory crew cabs from GM until the early '70s. It could be an aftermarket conversion, though. To help with the dimensions, here's a few links that will help you out. http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/chevyresto/59tld11.htm Here's the basic layout of the '55-'59 LCF chassis http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/shop/1955truck2/55ctsm0012.htm More frame dimension info http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/shop/1955truck2/55ctsm0202.htm One more thing, if you're going stock, all '55-'59 LCF trucks were equipped with V8 engines. The 2bbl smallblock would be the correct engine, the one from the AMT '55 or '57 pickups will fit the bill perfectly, but the trans will need to be changed.

Unfortunatly, anything that will strip paint or primer will remove the filler, too.