Wagons in vintage Street scenes

This reminds me of a story a friend of mine (who worked for GD--Convair Kearney Mesa in San Diego) told me: when the original B-36 was built, all Air Force bombers at the time only had one wheel per each main oleo, so the B-36's main gear exerted so much ground pressure, there were only two runways in the Western Hemisphere that could handle the bomber. I don't remember the East Coast one, but the West Coast one was San Diego's Lindbergh Field (now San Diego International), so the bomber's main gear had to be rebuilt as 4-wheeled gear to be accommodated at SAC bases.

 

E&L with 1957 Fords by PAcarhauler, on Flickr

 

Convoy 7-car 1953 by PAcarhauler, on Flickr

 

Once again, You did it. I love it.

 

Hmmmm

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BOMK they never made a Toronado wagon, but would like to see the details of that concept/conversion since they was FWD.

 

This is what is said about it over on the HAMB

swi66 Member
from Gasport, NY

A Toronado wagon????
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Where I got it from it said it was a GM styling study, that one of the guys brought home one day.
Said later on it ended up with a plow on the front of it for clearing snow. ​