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Wonder what kind of wood the tires are made from?Finally found a Jeep with NO RUST!!
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Sweet!
wristpin
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To my eye it would have been even better if there was kicker trim on bottom 2"-3" of doors that matched texture of billboard.
Greg Reimer
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When I first went to work for the City of Los Angeles, we still had trucks with split rims, the kind with the big snap ring that held the tire and the tube on.At 80 PSI, they were quite dangerous. We had a special training class on those nasty things, and one film showed a guy putting air in one of those wheels with it laying flat on the ground. All of sudden, a loud bang ensued, the snap ring and the guy both flew some 25 or so feet in the air, the tire and tube went their ways, and fortunately it was a staged event utilizing a mannequin. Fortunately, those are all long gone.I believe they were outlawed some time ago. One time, I was heading home on the freeway, and saw one of those snap rings leaning against the center divider sound wall, a little later was a pile of black inner tube fragments, then about a mile later was the tire, leaning against the divider. Must have been a real Kodak moment when that happened! They were real common on farm implements at one time. The couple on the tractor reminded me of that. Can't decide which would be worse- the tractor falling on me. or her!!
Greg Reimer
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Greg Reimer
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1957 Chevy Crew Cab El Camino.
Greg Reimer
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1962 Chevy Bel Camino.
Greg Reimer
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What does it say about a man when his truck is longer than the trailer he lives in?
We had a cage that we were required to put them in and used a 'click on' chuck to fill them so no appendages were inside or around the tire. Still can remember a few circles in the ceiling from those coming unpuckered although I never personally saw it.
Operator error not mechanical malfunction caused many injuries and deaths with those rims. I inflated many of them without a problem. You needed to make sure they were properly seated before the pressure got very high. If a tire got very low on a vehicle you needed to take it off and make sure the ring was properly seated instead of just inflating. The cages saved many lives for sure.
There were several types of split rim wheels. Chevy had one from the late 50's to mid 60's that my dad called man-killers, they were 2 piece but went together almost in the center. He said if you ever ran them flat they would wear and not hold as well. My 65 C-80 has a 3 piece wheel, the main part, the ring and a smaller locking ring, they're much safer.
I have a 58 truck that still has those wheels that split in the middle made by Firestone. Around here they called them "widow makers". No one will touch them anymore.