If you’ve been reading the section on trucking history that we’ve recently added to Hemmings Classic Car, then you’ve seen the camera craft of Joe Wanchura, who hails from Muncie, Indiana. It may come to pass that Joe is heralded as the Matthew Brady of commercial trucking. His photos depict rigs from the 1950s and […]
You can’t restore a truck properly without the right tires. Look at anything cast in rubber today and it’ll be a radial, maybe with flotation properties or shaped to fit wheels with offsets that didn’t exist in the pre-Interstate days. One source that can help you get things correct is M.E. Miller Tire, of Wauseon, […]
Coming across a 1944 anything while classified cruising is rare, but we recently came across several such listings on Hemmings.com, including this 1944 Autocar cab-over convertible tractor, a rare and unusual vehicle we’ve only previously seen in period photos. From the seller’s description: 1944 Autocar U7144T 4X4 COE Tractor with 16FT Wooden Rack and Platform […]