Vintage Tow Trucks

Looks like that poor wrecker was involved in a wreck.

 

Get a load of that bum catcher. I'll bet, the cop driving that truck had plenty of fun with it Where's Wikileaks, when we need applicable statistics?

 

I bet it towed itself home....

 

Well played.

 

Thank you.

 

American Auto Parts Wrecking Yard located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Photo was taken on March 29, 1948

 

The Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company began operations in Philadelphia, PA, in 1912 manufacturing pressed steel stampings, automobile bodies, and parts. It was the fulfillment of Budd’s goal to produce all-steel automobile bodies that were more durable, stronger, less expensive and could be built in far less time than a traditional wood-framed or all wooden coachwork.

In 1914 the Dodge Brothers placed an order for five-thousand steel bodies for the Company’s new-to-the-market four-cylinder touring car. This new automobile was so popular that Dodge soon ordered fifty-thousand more auto bodies and became Budd’s largest account until it was acquired in the mid-1920s by the Chrysler Corporation.

This photo was taken at the scene of an accident involving a Dodge four-door sedan to show just how well the Budd bodywork and structural members held up in an accident. A conventional metal covered wood-framed auto body probably would have suffered from broken rear door and quarter panel framework and more deformation than this all-steel coachwork sustained.


Courtesy of The Old Motor

 

How about a vintage toe trick?

 

Lincoln Towing's Toe Truck!!! And in the background, a wild and wooly Rainier!

 

Yessir! I remember the Toe truck from when I was a kid. And the "R" is the very same one that used to be displayed on the brewery along I-5

 

Yup! I remember a bunch of the commercials:







And Mickey Rooney did a bunch of other commercials