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Huntsville ATHS shows the trucks of cotton country

While searching for a few parts last week, I spoke to my friend Mike at Mike’s Auto Parts in Ridgeland, Mississippi, who filled me in on the ATHS national convention and meet in Huntsville, Alabama,...

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Welcome to the honeymoon suite – the log cabin COE

I’ve been meaning for a while to highlight the extensive cab-over engine trucks thread on the H.A.M.B. – most flavors and styles of COEs are represented, from stock grain trucks to lowered hot rod...

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SIA Flashback – L’Universelle, Front Wheel Drive in ’55

Pretty much all we ever see anymore of L’Universelle, the GM concept truck of 1955, is the same color photograph and the same brief one-paragraph description, usually contained within broader articles...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1954 Ford F600

The cab-over-engine body style actually predates all other truck body styles, but wasn’t much regarded as stylish until about the late 1930s through the 1960s, when we started seeing COEs that...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Ford Econoline pickup

Admittedly, this 1963 Ford Econoline pickup isn’t in the best of shape. Dings, dents, rust, torn seat covers, flat paint. But we’ve seen worse, and these little snubnoses are fast becoming popular...

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Four-Links – birth of the Mini, AMG honors its history, early housecars, PVGP...

* AROnline has been digging into their archives for tales of the beginnings of many an interesting car, including Alec Issigonis’s most well-known work, the original Mini. * What’s perhaps most...

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The caped crusader and the COE, circa 1943

True comic book buffs know that Batman made his screen debut well before Adam West and company turned the franchise into a joke: A pair of serials in 1943 and 1949 featured the caped crusader as well...

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See no Evel. Just restore it

Photos courtesy Robb Mariani Truck restoration means working with big parts to achieve big rewards, but can be a real piece of work in its own right if the truck is a one-off custom. That’s true in...

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Commer transporter leads collection of seven Ecurie Ecosse race cars to auction

The Dick Skipworth Ecurie Ecosse Collection heads to auction. Photo courtesy Bonhams. Over a span of nearly 20 years, Scottish racing team Ecurie Ecosse fielded an almost countless number and variety...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1939 Ford COE

Favored for their shorter overall length (and better visibility) compared to more conventional designs, Ford’s Cab Over Engine (COE) trucks were a staple on American roads for decades, used for...

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March Military Campaign revisited – more on the twin-engine Ford COE

B-24 bombers are big planes: 68 feet long, 110-foot wingspan, and a loaded weight of 55,000 pounds. It took four 1,200-hp turbosupercharged Pratt and Whitney radials to power them, and it took the...

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