Aarons Book Report

[Eddy]

Aaron stopped to look this over on his way back from Brooks, 1925 Autocar Baltmans Department Store on 5th Ave in NYC, one block down from our office in a prvious job.

[jhancock]

Could be an interesting story how it made its way to the left coast!

Nice!

[Jeff Lakaszcyck]

That is a very cool truck. I wonder if that body was rebuilt sometime, it seems newer than the chassis.

[Eddy]

The body has the name Morgan on it in three places. Morgan reminds me of the beverage bodies used when it was bottles in wooden cases. Am I really that old.

[Eddy]

I put a check in the mail so I guess I bought it. Now I need to figure out how to get it home. Oh and maybe I should tell Louise. Hmm.

[jhancock]

Excellent! A unique bit of trucking history.

After the reveal, be wary of any special homemade cookies...

[Aaron]

Opps, you may have to move into the box on the back.

[Frank Surber]

we can always hide it in my shop

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Opps, you may have to move into the box on the back.

Aaron you're off the hook.She heard us talking and two days latter she asks. Did Aaron buy that old truck. What was I supposed to say. I think she already had it figured out. And then it was What're you going to do with that thing.

What we didn't measure was the width to see what it'd fit on. I may need to ask Billy? at the Iowa 80 to measure their 1926.

[jhancock]

"Off the hook"... That doesn't seem right?

[Aaron]

Hal was back at the property a day or two ago I sent him an e-mail asking that

[Wayne Graham]

Eddy, I doubt it is over 102 wide. Definitely looks like a double drop for height. There is plenty of them leave CA empty so you should be able to get a good rate.

[Frank Surber]

The width of the box is irrelevant, the out to out of the steering tires the wheelbase and the drive tires inside and outside measurements the weight would be nice but short of hauling it to a scale that probably won't happen. Might buy a chips a bottle of old Smuggler, and ask him to bring his portables