Great picture. The trucks are the stars here, especially the two Fords, a ’51 and a ’52 (I think). Is that ’52 on the right sporting those chrome covers over half the headlight? That was a really useful affectation, and I’m sure Prof. Stern will have a few stern words about that.
And a different embellishment above the grill.
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I’ve always wondered what those chrome half covers were designed to do. Here in Maryland they’ve always been illegal.
The bogus propaganda put out by vendors (JC Witless and that ilk) was that they magically let you run your high beams without causing glare. This is brainless. Blocking half the headlamp means losing half the output. And what’s worse, the lower part of the headlamp reflector shines the light upward, and vice versa, so these attachments make the high beams produce only glare with no light on the road. Low beams are likewise useless. These things are super extra dumb.
Even back in the olden days, the Headlight Police were on the case:
Hey, neat, what a find! That’s from the Salinas Californian, 31 October 1952.
These chromed covers must have been illegal in PA back in the day. I recall seeing them only when we traveled to Wheeling, WV to visit relatives,
The northeastern states used to be among the stricter ones with regard to vehicle equipment. PA, NJ, NY, MD, VA, DC come to mind as not allowing any fiddlefutzing with vehicle safety equipment.
One more thing my Dad was right about when he explained these to me. The modern equivalent is the idiots who put dark tint film on their tailights — “I don’t need nobody to see me from behind”
That’s sheer genius compared to some of the excuses I’ve heard (“It’s a one-way tint”). Probably the best summary is this one.
Then, there are the dark-tinted license plate covers. No one who’s up to no good wants those on their car, do they?
Great picture, and the trucks are the stars here. Here’s a picture I made a few years ago when we were running our trucking business. Made this on I-40 at the rest stop close to Dickson, Tennessee in a pretty good rain shower.
Our International 9400i was pulling a “hot load” to NC … one of those, “it has to be there by….loads”
We had a lot of those. Anyway, I took the time to make this picture. And, the load got there.
That’s a big bunch of bathtubs ! .
I assume that ‘Hot Load’ was for a movie shoot ? .
-Nate
It’s a bit like asking the lion to carry sheep on his back. I guess there weren’t any comparable Nash truck models to do the job. This was the same time when Ford and Chevy started to put the squeeze on the independents with a price war, no?
The indignity.
Barry, while NASH did make some larger trucks, even flatbed multi-ton units with dual rear wheels, I’m not so sure Nash made units with the ability to haul new car carriers. Here’s an example of a big Nash truck. In my opinion they looked fairly nice.
The photo of the Nash truck didn’t load, so I’ll try again,
Sorry, had to rename the photo.