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kevin 12-06-2006 21:26:39 65.54.154.42 22574 Report to Moderator	any information on 1959 white mustang trucks are there any out there whats the going price if there is any out there any information helpful [Reply]  [Send Email]
Okie 12-07-2006 04:23:45 152.163.100.137 22576 Report to Moderator	Re: 1959white mustang truck in reply to kevin, 12-06-2006 21:26:39   Used to haul a lot of rock and sand with a 59 White Mustang. It had a 220 cummins and a mech. shift 4X4. The cab was so tiny that the seats rubbed against each other and if you weren't real carefull, you could get to know your passenger a lot better than you wanted to especially with the two sticker, lol. The steering wheel was a great big ole thing and I kept hitting my elboe on the door window and my knuckles on the dash when shifting. It had a switch on the dash right in front of the shifters that you could turn on or off the brakes on the steering axle that could teach you an entirely new language. It was like sitting in a moving oven in the summer and a deep freeze in the winter. I had a vacuum cleaner hose that I could hook up to the heater under the seat and kind of string up around the roof and point at the windshield to keep a little spot on the windshield free of frost and fog. Wouldn't trade my new W900 with air ride cab, air ride suspention, air ride seats, air ride sleeper, power steering, air conditoning, and all that sound insulation for every White Truck ever built (if I had to drive them). The Trailer (a cable dump) had a stinger welded on the back under the tail gate so when I came up out of the pit a dozer would get behind me and push me up out of the pit and get me started back to the black top. I do have some old pictures of it in a boot box but have no way to send them over the internet. I know where the truck is sitting, for sale, at this moment. It is in Ponca City, Oklahoma. From the intersection of Hwy 177 & Hwy 60 go about a half a block West. There is a whole buch of other worthless road construction equipment and trucks right there beside the road all for sale. The next time I am there I could get the phone number painted on the side of an old box van and post it here or send you an email if I knew where to send it.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Axel, Europe 12-07-2006 08:18:18 84.187.235.134 22578 Report to Moderator	Re: Re: 1959white mustang truck in reply to Okie, 12-07-2006 04:23:45   Hello Okie, I really enjoyed your white experiences and reading was like sitting next to you in this old truck. I had some experiences like yours in the past too. Ones upon a time in the west (of Germany) there we (Technical Rescue Service) had an Magirus Deutz air-cooled 4x4 and it was like your white, so now one could make me buy such a truck. Axel, Huertgenforrest, Europe Mercedes LP 608 3,5t COE+ LP 813 4t COE + Ford XPII   [Reply]  [Send Email]
Okie 12-08-2006 02:37:54 64.12.116.70 22590 Report to Moderator	Re: Re: Re: 1959white mustang truck in reply to Axel, Europe, 12-07-2006 08:18:18   Hi Axel. Nice to know that a Country so technically advanced as Germany could produce that kind of old war horse too. I wasn't saying they were a lemon or anything. Just the opposite. Tough, dependable and for the most part indestructable. If they weren't, they didn't last long hualing Gypsum and Crushed stone in Western Oklahoma. Mercedes Trucks are really getting popular here. Mostly the class seven bob tail city delivery type trucks. I believe them to be pretty rugged and capable of any task put before them. Keep in touch Axel. Always interested in what folks from other places have to say about most anyting.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Axel 12-09-2006 09:59:27 84.187.249.212 22617 Report to Moderator	Re: Re: Re: Re: 1959white mustang truck in reply to Okie, 12-08-2006 02:37:54   Hi Okie, thank you oh yes dependable and tough like our Magirus, but after working with it all day the driver was at his physical end. So we looked up to the Mercedes Trucks of this time, because they were watercooled, not so loud, had shockabsorbers and longer springs and a synchron shift. So the Magirus would have last longer if there could be found a driver who would like to drive it. So the Mercedes from the 50s and 60s still run because they are easier to drive. Nice that you think mercedes are pretty rugged and capable, but sorry times have changed, since about 1995 the earlier quality made products were displaced by cheaper massproducts. For example the Line-Diesel-Injection-Pump was more and more displaced by a cheaper Distributor-Injction-Pump, lot of plastics came and so on. There is a long list of such things and today the modern trucks in cold winter must be set overnight into the garage because of electronical problems/frozen condensewater.... We in Germany look up to your nice US-pickups and trucks and whished you would have produced them ,more as Diesels and if - with e tinier one. Converting them to Diesels is mostly not possible because of missing environmet-certificate, an petrol is expensive and the consumption to high. Hope my English is good enough. Axel, 1974 Mercedes LP 608 COE and 1978 LP813 COE...   [Reply]  [No Email]