Here's something none of you have seen before, probably

[Tacoma]

I bet you haven't.


This is my friend Tom's dad's old truck. He was a funny old guy, cop in the Hamptons on Long Island in the 60's and 70's, real salt-of-the-earth type.
Anyway in the late 60's or early 70's he got a bug up his ass about putting a diesel in his truck. So he did.

A Mercedes diesel! Used the transmission too, and it shifts oddly. Up for 1st and 2nd-- but up first, then over to left and right..... Like an "I" gate sort of.
The speedo callout is handwritten and has the rpm under the mph.

It's also a bought-new 1953, 50th anniversary edition. Anyway, enjoy. The other pic is Tom's truck, and it is beat up even more now.

 

[Shawn]

Very nice ride. I love conversions!!!

 

[BroncoMama]

That is just freakin' cool.

 

[yellowbronco]

I want, I want, I want!!

 

[Tacoma]

Well, if he puts it up for sale, I'll let you know.

 

[spencurai]

The truck is nice...except for the stack exhaust and that light bar or whatever it is in the back but why ruin a nice truck like that with a gutless non turbo diesel engine?

Yeah it will probably get half a million miles since it is a Merc motor but I just don't see the draw?

 

[Tacoma]

The draw was to do something no one had done before, and get a million miles out of it. This is an ancient conversion, at least 30yrs old if I remember right.

The headache rack was to keep the big steel tanks he used to haul from crushing the cab.


Hater.

 

[spencurai]

Well at least he used it...

 

[Kiel]

Yeah that thing is thrashed!! It's all painted green now and the top is barely hangin on, plus it looks like it can't stay on the road