Hey Jonathan, Praise God for people like you that will drag this kind of stuff home, I'm like you, I don't care how much is gone, it still needs to be saved!!
Hey Jonathan, I ran across this video & had to make another comment, what is your plans for this cab? With your abilities & connections I would bet that you could find the parts to put this vintage truck back together, please don't rat rod it...
Jonathan,son you are living the dream. I’ll bet if I was your age and had your equipment. I would have drug every thing I could find home. Love your videos.
I always hate to see old stuff being taken to the scrap yard even if it never gets restored,,after lasting that long,it deserves to just be kept to look at once in a while and appreciated for it long life.
That cab is actually a Metro Duplex cab (1927-1930ish) built by the Metropolitan Body Company of Bridgeport Connecticut. I have several Sterlings with the identical cab plus their original Metro cab plaques. There are more Metro cabs on east coast trucks since most were shipped without cabs and a local cab added before sale. The difference in years between the cab & truck indicate that this was a later replacement. The Highland plaque was likely leftover for the earlier cab or body. The Highland cab had a more vertical cab opening behind the door. If nothing else, save all the cast door and window hinges. They end up getting lost and I'm about to have someone cast some replacements for one of my cabs.
I tip my hat to you for your never ending quest to save what most people think is just junk , We live in a through away world now, and it makes my heart feel good to see all that you do , just want to say thanks
I saved an Overland touring out of the bushes once. Had a cut off 1921 Hupmobile touring I made into a pie wagon and then a basket case 1912 Model R Cartercar roadster. Still not done I think after 50 years, hahahahhaa. Regards from Thailand, Paul Venne
Wow that is one piece of trucking history! Glad to see it saved. Few if any truck makers from that time are still in business. The only one from the early 1900s era I can think of that is still around is Mack.
I'm new on the channel love all of your videos. I don't know what you don't have over a million subscribers. You explain everything to a T in my eyes your the best channel on TH-cam. It never gets old keep them coming. You should fix it back into a wrecker and paint it red with your business name on the door and use it for advertisment. That would look awesome.
I would guess, in that period of time, that the original roof of the cab would have been rexine or some other similar fabric, or maybe even doped canvas as was used for the skins on early airplanes. Once that started to rot, or lost it's waterproofing it was probably replaced with the metal roof which does look very much like it was made from an old oil drum. It's a neat job and very much of the "make do and mend" philosophy of the inter-war period...
Wow, other people see rusted scrap. Our friend John here says look here, I'm gonna make a whole new truck outta this piece of rusty junk, and proceeds to do it time after time... I wish I knew half of the stuff he's forgotten and I'd be in business....
That's really cool. Like you said, it can be rebuilt. Fill rust holes with patch panels. You have a pattern for the doors. When you picked this up I was thinking about the Maccar. It would be neat to see that back together again I'm sure you'll agree.
Man Jonathan, You hit a Jack Pot there with this 0l' Truck Body. Very Cool. I hope ya can build it for your 0l' Tuck you was talk'n bout. Thanks for sharing this video I love these 0l' Trucks & Car's too.
Bro, your 1969 Davey Perma-Vane 250 CFM Air Compressor Diesel you saved... that whole unit can pretty much be used with this cab; you've got the grill, fan, rad, hood sides, firewall... looks like it wouldn't be too difficult to attach it right to a cab/frame - then you just need a trans, front/rear suspension, seat, gauges and steering column/wheel... (well, a few other things but you get the idea). It could be like that Maccar unit you have, the whole engine could be removed like that in one piece to be swapped or worked on or whatever... add a short wooden bed and you'd have one hell of a farm truck rat rod, and I think it'd look pretty sweet; fab up a set of front fenders and running boards like an old Autocar truck, or find some old style rounded fenders, mount lights, good to go!
That is neat! these are still being built in my hometown of Clintonville Wisconsin. The company is called Seagrave. it's a keeper! The Oshkosh is also a Wisconsin company.
I think I saw one of these FWD cab and chassis at a transportation museum a few years back , but I think it may have been newer than yours it had if I remember right it had side glass . Nice find you never know what you'll find out in the woods .
the Cap is worth Saving I would look at maybe putting her on a later model Ranger/150/blazer frame and work you way from there..or try and a find a older ford dump truck and do a Cap Swap on that or use the Frame for a start point and make your own..ether way love the Videos man..please keep the content coming..
well you saved another one from being crushed and saved another piece of history 1919 wow. My Dad was 5 yrs old when they made that he was born in 1924! Always fun watching your videos and see what you drag out next. Let me know if you ever find any parts of a 1929 Buick my neighbor a couple doors down is restoring a 1929 Buick sedan that had only one of 4 L engine conversions done to it at the dealership it is very rare.
I have a brochure for Highland cabs, c. 1929 they used the pocket door model briefly on Linn tractors and on their C series in the 1940s. That cab looks like it could be later than a 1919, possibly a replacement? You should put wood skids under something like that to prevent dragging and catching on anything. I have about a 1930 or 1931 that had the standard cab.
From Wikipedia: The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, more often known as Four Wheel Drive (FWD), was founded in 1909 in Clintonville, Wisconsin, as the Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich.
would like to see up close where are you located? its a great save ,i couldnt put a fwd under it BUT! it would make a great rod to drive. nice to know that there is guys like you who wants to keep things from getting scraped,i do the same thing Pete
Great save Jonathan, Hell whom amongst you wouldn't want to make something that in a hundred years time someone would want to save from the crusher? We can't save them all but we can try. .
You might be interested in this. That FWD might be one of the trucks that Dwight D Eisenhower crossed the continent with in 1919. www.army.mil/article/23212
I hope I don't turn this into a long "Old loggers tail"..... I can't help myself but a logger once told me that the difference in a loggers tail and a fairy story was that a fairy story started with "Once upon a time... and a loggers tail was,.... " This ain't no bull sh^^, I seen it"/ LOL But for real, when I worked in Concrete Wash., I had worked for a company called Johnson Brothers Inc. Like any good logging company, they had a bone pile out behind the shop where stuff got thrown out but still available to pick pieces out of. There was a F.W.D. Truck that had been the companies line truck and it had a endless wheel spool that you could put a couple of rap's of the cable/line that you had to pick up stuff left from a logging sit that was finished but you couldn't leave that stuff in the woods because the Forest Service Comp. that was run by the state and you couldn't leave cable/juck out in the woods.and they had a multiple bunch of stuff they managed like timber sales, inspections/requirements, safety first, ect. Back to the rest of the story, the logging company that I worked for hd a few old trucks that even other companies shared the piking rights with others in the business had as well. There was still paint on the trucks, parts ect., that anyone could get from each other for little to nothing. In that stuff that we picked and sorted through was obsolete even in those days and had been parked with chain drive rear ends or a bad trans., whatever. A lot of that stuff we remembered it cause we worked on it and knew the history behind it. Even though I was still young then, I knew drove some of the trucks back there. Logging companies were a proud sort and even though I pulled wrenches, I was required to wash/wax the rig when we were done working on them, like I said; Proud and it took hard work to keep up on it!! Like yesterday I remember that F.W.D. truck and it had heavy cab panels with riveted pin's and some of the cab was flat and some rolled but it was made to last a lifetime. I think back and I think the cab was on a Mack Truck frame and engine, trans., rear ends. Heavy but strong and made to last a couple of lifetimes. It had a small Mack diesel engine and the "triplex transmission" which was so hard to swap gears in it but I had an ear for it and I drove it back to the pile of parts... boneyard. I had to wash and wax it even though I was a mechanic then and while we waited for the loggers to finish their day so ours could start.... everyone pulled even weight cause it mattered to the company. We parked it cause the engine had broken head bolts and made a chirping noise every time the engine rotated/ran. Another reason it was parked was because it was "beating a dead horse to death" cause it didn't make sense to keep repairing it just to have to do over again. It was a early 1900's truck cab that had been put on there because the original truck had been rolled over/bent in on top so when we put the cab on that frame, it could be driven again. So much paint from former owners colors to our company colors, I think it could of been painted probably twenty times and was thick almost "gooie" because you couldn't get all the paint off it. I remember that truck well and how pretty she was with our colors, Forest Green with gold flake and black lettering with white outlines and a "Betty Boop" cartoon painted on the air vents.. all hand done. The truck was cold to drive in winter and hot as hell in the summertime cause it leaked air in every where which was a good thing because the engine had oil burning off it and I pressure washed it many a time ... we mixed Ivory Snow dish washing soap in bottles and pre sprayed everything we was going to spray off. Some companies took their colors serious and that truck was one of them.... I miss that truck now but couldn't wait to get out of it back then/LOL.
Dang I know where's there 2 of them at place just like that on a ol farm bout 20 miles ftom.my shop. I had for got about them I got to go check on them .one of the ol c cabs was full of glass bottles
I have fixed much worse. I restored a Fordson tractor that had been sitting in a pond. It's only about how bad you want to fix it, not if it's possible.
Hi , that might be a late 1919 FWD. Here's a link to a pic of a 1923 FWD with an identical cab to yours. I agree you should use it for the maccar or bits of it. www.therangerstation.com/resources/4wd_history/1923_FWD.JPG
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You're an Automotive Archeologist! Great to see you saving this old girl.
I am glad there are people like you out there rescue old stuff like that.
Hey Jonathan, Praise God for people like you that will drag this kind of stuff home, I'm like you, I don't care how much is gone, it still needs to be saved!!
Hey Jonathan, I ran across this video & had to make another comment, what is your plans for this cab? With your abilities & connections I would bet that you could find the parts to put this vintage truck back together, please don't rat rod it...
Jonathan,son you are living the dream. I’ll bet if I was your age and had your equipment. I would have drug every thing I could find home. Love your videos.
I always hate to see old stuff being taken to the scrap yard even if it never gets restored,,after lasting that long,it deserves to just be kept to look at once in a while and appreciated for it long life.
That cab is actually a Metro Duplex cab (1927-1930ish) built by the Metropolitan Body Company of Bridgeport Connecticut. I have several Sterlings with the identical cab plus their original Metro cab plaques. There are more Metro cabs on east coast trucks since most were shipped without cabs and a local cab added before sale. The difference in years between the cab & truck indicate that this was a later replacement. The Highland plaque was likely leftover for the earlier cab or body. The Highland cab had a more vertical cab opening behind the door. If nothing else, save all the cast door and window hinges. They end up getting lost and I'm about to have someone cast some replacements for one of my cabs.
I tip my hat to you for your never ending quest to save what most people think is just junk , We live in a through away world now, and it makes my heart feel good to see all that you do , just want to say thanks
That's a keeper in my book! Thanks for holdin' down the cussin' Jonathan. Cussing shows no class. ...Newk from Kentucky
Late to the party but thanks for saving the old girl from the crusher.
you know a true car guy when he willing to find and most likely do something with it.
I saved an Overland touring out of the bushes once. Had a cut off 1921 Hupmobile touring I made into a pie wagon and then a basket case 1912 Model R Cartercar roadster. Still not done I think after 50 years, hahahahhaa. Regards from Thailand, Paul Venne
That's a cool bit of history.
that cab is cool as hell
Loggers used them back in the day.... I find them every now and again out in the woods when I'm huntin.
An honorable adventure rescuing iron from the past... keep up the good work1
Wow that is one piece of trucking history! Glad to see it saved. Few if any truck makers from that time are still in business. The only one from the early 1900s era I can think of that is still around is Mack.
C.o.e build would be sick
Still a cool old piece!
I'm new on the channel love all of your videos. I don't know what you don't have over a million subscribers. You explain everything to a T in my eyes your the best channel on TH-cam. It never gets old keep them coming. You should fix it back into a wrecker and paint it red with your business name on the door and use it for advertisment. That would look awesome.
Great video! Thanks for taking us along,
Jonathan you do the best videos thanks👍😎
Nice! Thanks for saving it
I would guess, in that period of time, that the original roof of the cab would have been rexine or some other similar fabric, or maybe even doped canvas as was used for the skins on early airplanes. Once that started to rot, or lost it's waterproofing it was probably replaced with the metal roof which does look very much like it was made from an old oil drum. It's a neat job and very much of the "make do and mend" philosophy of the inter-war period...
Wow, other people see rusted scrap. Our friend John here says look here, I'm gonna make a whole new truck outta this piece of rusty junk, and proceeds to do it time after time... I wish I knew half of the stuff he's forgotten and I'd be in business....
Personally, I think she's beautiful; keep up the good work brother!
That's really cool. Like you said, it can be rebuilt. Fill rust holes with patch panels. You have a pattern for the doors. When you picked this up I was thinking about the Maccar. It would be neat to see that back together again I'm sure you'll agree.
Thanks for saving(and sharing) what you can!
so cool you can still find that old stuff! here in new york dont last but maybe 10 years sitting like that
nice find Johnathan. i think i wouldve layed the cab back on its rear panels for the trip home. cheers for sharing.
Man Jonathan, You hit a Jack Pot there with this 0l' Truck Body. Very Cool. I hope ya can build it for your 0l' Tuck you was talk'n bout. Thanks for sharing this video I love these 0l' Trucks & Car's too.
Amazing finding the ID tag.
Sweet find Jonathan!
Bro, your 1969 Davey Perma-Vane 250 CFM Air Compressor Diesel you saved... that whole unit can pretty much be used with this cab; you've got the grill, fan, rad, hood sides, firewall... looks like it wouldn't be too difficult to attach it right to a cab/frame - then you just need a trans, front/rear suspension, seat, gauges and steering column/wheel... (well, a few other things but you get the idea). It could be like that Maccar unit you have, the whole engine could be removed like that in one piece to be swapped or worked on or whatever... add a short wooden bed and you'd have one hell of a farm truck rat rod, and I think it'd look pretty sweet; fab up a set of front fenders and running boards like an old Autocar truck, or find some old style rounded fenders, mount lights, good to go!
That is neat! these are still being built in my hometown of Clintonville Wisconsin. The company is called Seagrave. it's a keeper! The Oshkosh is also a Wisconsin company.
Could you do a tour of all the vehicles you have in the trees Johnathan?, that would be cool. I've always liked junk yards.
hi johnathon i would love for you to rebuild the FWD into a classic wrecker i think it would look fab as advertising at the front of your drive
I think I saw one of these FWD cab and chassis at a transportation museum a few years back , but I think it may have been newer than yours it had if I remember right it had side glass . Nice find you never know what you'll find out in the woods .
the Cap is worth Saving I would look at maybe putting her on a later model Ranger/150/blazer frame and work you way from there..or try and a find a older ford dump truck and do a Cap Swap on that or use the Frame for a start point and make your own..ether way love the Videos man..please keep the content coming..
Good save!
Nice just saw your cab when I googled 1919 FWD
Amazing cab I hope you did something with it at least got it in dry has to be rare
Ever wonder how those trucks got there?
well you saved another one from being crushed and saved another piece of history 1919 wow. My Dad was 5 yrs old when they made that he was born in 1924! Always fun watching your videos and see what you drag out next. Let me know if you ever find any parts of a 1929 Buick my neighbor a couple doors down is restoring a 1929 Buick sedan that had only one of 4 L engine conversions done to it at the dealership it is very rare.
lol, if your dad was born in 1924, and the truck is from 1919, then I'm thinkin' maybe the truck was five years old when they made your dad lol.
Greg Jude yeah thats the new regressive math lol I meant to say that was on the road 5 years before my Dad was born
rofl its cool I knew whatcha meant I was just pulling your leg a little lol
Well when you get to my age (66) your brain has a strange habit of reversing things lol
LOL no doubt ol' buddy no doubt!
I have a brochure for Highland cabs, c. 1929 they used the pocket door model briefly on Linn tractors and on their C series in the 1940s. That cab looks like it could be later than a 1919, possibly a replacement? You should put wood skids under something like that to prevent dragging and catching on anything. I have about a 1930 or 1931 that had the standard cab.
From Wikipedia: The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, more often known as Four Wheel Drive (FWD), was founded in 1909 in Clintonville, Wisconsin, as the Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich.
John The Mouse video has a 1926 FWD augur truck video which cab looks something like this but the firewall looks more like the one in my truck.
Its messed up,But I like it!!
that barrel roof looks like it was a good repair too me
Well worth saving....Id like to have it
No joke, that old cab and swap it with your flatbed's cab that would look awesome! LOL
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would like to see up close where are you located? its a great save ,i couldnt put a fwd under it BUT! it would make a great rod to drive. nice to know that there is guys like you who wants to keep things from getting scraped,i do the same thing Pete
Be cool if you could use it to construct a wrecker from that era.
Great save Jonathan, Hell whom amongst you wouldn't want to make something that in a hundred years time someone would want to save from the crusher? We can't save them all but we can try.
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I try for sure, then hope to find them good homes!! Thanks for watching!
You might be interested in this. That FWD might be one of the trucks that Dwight D Eisenhower crossed the continent with in 1919. www.army.mil/article/23212
First time I seen this video
Three stogies shorts and laurel and hardy have these old trucks running
I hope I don't turn this into a long "Old loggers tail"..... I can't help myself but a logger once told me that the difference in a loggers tail and a fairy story was that a fairy story started with "Once upon a time... and a loggers tail was,.... " This ain't no bull sh^^, I seen it"/ LOL But for real, when I worked in Concrete Wash., I had worked for a company called Johnson Brothers Inc. Like any good logging company, they had a bone pile out behind the shop where stuff got thrown out but still available to pick pieces out of. There was a F.W.D. Truck that had been the companies line truck and it had a endless wheel spool that you could put a couple of rap's of the cable/line that you had to pick up stuff left from a logging sit that was finished but you couldn't leave that stuff in the woods because the Forest Service Comp. that was run by the state and you couldn't leave cable/juck out in the woods.and they had a multiple bunch of stuff they managed like timber sales, inspections/requirements, safety first, ect. Back to the rest of the story, the logging company that I worked for hd a few old trucks that even other companies shared the piking rights with others in the business had as well. There was still paint on the trucks, parts ect., that anyone could get from each other for little to nothing. In that stuff that we picked and sorted through was obsolete even in those days and had been parked with chain drive rear ends or a bad trans., whatever. A lot of that stuff we remembered it cause we worked on it and knew the history behind it. Even though I was still young then, I knew drove some of the trucks back there. Logging companies were a proud sort and even though I pulled wrenches, I was required to wash/wax the rig when we were done working on them, like I said; Proud and it took hard work to keep up on it!! Like yesterday I remember that F.W.D. truck and it had heavy cab panels with riveted pin's and some of the cab was flat and some rolled but it was made to last a lifetime. I think back and I think the cab was on a Mack Truck frame and engine, trans., rear ends. Heavy but strong and made to last a couple of lifetimes. It had a small Mack diesel engine and the "triplex transmission" which was so hard to swap gears in it but I had an ear for it and I drove it back to the pile of parts... boneyard. I had to wash and wax it even though I was a mechanic then and while we waited for the loggers to finish their day so ours could start.... everyone pulled even weight cause it mattered to the company. We parked it cause the engine had broken head bolts and made a chirping noise every time the engine rotated/ran. Another reason it was parked was because it was "beating a dead horse to death" cause it didn't make sense to keep repairing it just to have to do over again. It was a early 1900's truck cab that had been put on there because the original truck had been rolled over/bent in on top so when we put the cab on that frame, it could be driven again. So much paint from former owners colors to our company colors, I think it could of been painted probably twenty times and was thick almost "gooie" because you couldn't get all the paint off it. I remember that truck well and how pretty she was with our colors, Forest Green with gold flake and black lettering with white outlines and a "Betty Boop" cartoon painted on the air vents.. all hand done. The truck was cold to drive in winter and hot as hell in the summertime cause it leaked air in every where which was a good thing because the engine had oil burning off it and I pressure washed it many a time ... we mixed Ivory Snow dish washing soap in bottles and pre sprayed everything we was going to spray off. Some companies took their colors serious and that truck was one of them.... I miss that truck now but couldn't wait to get out of it back then/LOL.
Any updates on a worthwhile restoration job?
www.coachbuilt.com/bui/h/highland/highland.htm Goes with the plate on the wooden strip you found.
The fire wall is made of wood.
Do you still have the black roll back? If you do would you make a video about it please sir! I think it's the only one I haven't seen!
Dang I know where's there 2 of them at place just like that on a ol farm bout 20 miles ftom.my shop. I had for got about them I got to go check on them .one of the ol c cabs was full of glass bottles
Probably a canvas top originally.
ugly but very cool at the same time.. different I guess as always glad your saving what you can 👍
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Take the hand break off it'll move easier
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I bet it woulda took over 150 of them little naugies to get enough hide for the inside of that cab, lol.
how u make out with the storm Mathus..
Johnboy are you going to use for a rat rod build
you found OPTIMUS PRIME
You might think about making a wrecker out of it... LOL
Have two Walters out back ones a 1919 the other is a 1917 both run drive and both are for sale
what's left worth keeping?
I have fixed much worse. I restored a Fordson tractor that had been sitting in a pond. It's only about how bad you want to fix it, not if it's possible.
I take that comment back your right now seeing your perspective your right
Hi , that might be a late 1919 FWD. Here's a link to a pic of a 1923 FWD with an identical cab to yours. I agree you should use it for the maccar or bits of it. www.therangerstation.com/resources/4wd_history/1923_FWD.JPG
do you have an p o box?
i looked up on internet looks different types bodies
I took the chainsaw on them runs.
If you dont know what to do with this piece of history, contact me at riverfolks@sbcglobal.net