1971 Oshkosh "Ugly" C2044 Caterpillar Powered Tow Truck | 1919 Mack Truck A.C. Hooker

Bonus footage - https://youtu.be/zL2uTkqHkJ0

It's nice to see Dennis, who is obviously such a huge car guy, really and honestly be so impressed with the big trucks as well. I would love to own a nicely done big rig and take it to car shows so that the car guys and gals can see that there is another world of beautiful and stylish vehicles out there too.

Should have been two hours long. To much cool stuff we didn't get to see.

When the guy interviewing really knows his stuff and asks all the right questions it makes for a more genuine experience. It's like their all your old buddies.

If I remember that Oshkosh tow truck was an OVERDRIVE wrecker of the month in the 70s. Very cool.

Dealer: We got Cabovers, and Curb sniffers. Which would you like? Operator: Yes

These 100 year old trucks are amazing! So very simple in design and mechanics... It kind of makes me wonder how "simple" our modern 2020 trucks will look to the people living in 2120, and all the amazing advances that will be made up to that time period. It blows my mind!

fire equipment inspector- inspected a Oshkosh Wildland fire truck with water tank and nozzles, had a Cummins engine

I've drove several those old Oshkosh cement mixers in Chicago, they rode like riding a rock, took corners like a house, but you could not stop them

thanks for sharing your diversity of interests in automobiles. Those trucks are amazing .

I've been to the Macungie show with my dad and his 42 KB IH pickup back in the early 80s. He was a member of the ATCA North Jersey Chapter and at the time he recieved a prize for being the farthest truck driven to the show at that time. Even back then that meet was huge, and it just started. Mack trucks sponsored the meet and used to have shuttle buses that would run all day back and forth to their plant for a free tour. Once you were at the plant you got on a tram train and they drove you around the assembly plant. I don't know if they still do that, I haven't been there in 30 years but my dad went every year right up to his passing in the late 90s. As a 14 year old kid who loved trucks (Convoy, Smokey and the Bandit probably had something to do with that). It was like being at the candy store. Great show and great people, one of my dads friends gave me my first beer out of a hidden cooler (my whole family is tall, I was over 6' in grammar school) he probably thought I was 18.

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I have a deep felling for old trucks. There was junk yard close to where I grew up in the mid to late 60's that had all kinds of really cool looking old trucks that were worn completely out that we as kids would play in , imagining powering the behemoths down the road. What fun we had and then one day they were all gone... scraped.

Thanks Dennis, a grate video for tuck lovers like us from India....

As a Aussie i love the ute part GM part Holden motors RIP! And the big rigs were stunning. I also love the stories each one has to tell.

I love when other countries get both confused and excited seeing a ute. They are so common here in Aus that i sometimes take them for granted. But they are an icon, and i get a bit chuffed seeing other people appreciate them.

That Chevy Ute is amazing. Crazy that something similar was still made by Holden up until 2017.

Good to see you, we actually got to hang out some in Seaside Oregon a very long time ago. Hope you make it back some day. Thanks for all the great videos!!

Dennis, thanks for sharing your time and boundless enthusiam!

a great Uncle of mine was a long haul driver in the 60s no AC,radio, or any creature comforts as I’ve talked with his son who did some ride alongs growing up he also used to siphon his deisel out of the truck to fill up his furnace tank ! My Grandfather had a chai drive Mack truck he used in his cemetary tombstone business hauling granite and Marble it had a long overhead Boom on it with a chain hoist some of the Divco models make cool hotrods