Vintage Diesel Light Trucks: Part TWO

A chronology of diesel-powered light trucks in America Diesel-powered land vehicles go back a long way in U.S. history, but diesel light trucks are relatively […]

Triple-Nickel

1956 Massey-Harris 555 The ’55 Diesel debuted in 1949 as the big diesel tractor in the Massey-Harris lineup. Despite some teething problems, it established a […]

DEEZIL!

Tiny Diesel RC Plane Engine Tiny houses. Tiny cars. Tiny diesels. Now you’ve seen it all. We’ll bet you didn’t know that diesel engines have […]

Medium Green

1962 John Deere 3010 When John Deere introduced four new tractors at its big New Generation of Power extravaganza in Dallas, August 30, 1960, it […]

British Beefcake

1968 County 1124 The British County tractor isn’t one you see often here in the States, but you may wonder why not after seeing one. […]

Where Old Cummins Diesels Go to Live Again

The Cummins Historical Restoration Center Those who appreciate diesel history are always happy to see the cornerstones of diesel manufacturing maintaining corporate investments in it. […]

A Mystery Prototype Engine

The White V4-106 Every once in a while you run across something really odd that requires a lot of research. In this case it was […]

Last of the Old Timers

International W-450 Out with the old and in with the new. You’ve heard that expression a million times. In the late 1950s, International Harvester was […]

First in Flight

The Packard DR-980 Radial Aircraft Diesel Dedicated to the late Robert J. Neal, who wrote the books on Packard. Packard is best known for high-performance […]

Crawling Ollie

1946 Oliver Cletrac BD Crawler Cletrac began in 1916 as the Cleveland Motor Plow Company with a three-wheeled tractor design. Before the patent was even […]

THE FIRST TURBO TRACTOR ALLIS-CHALMERS D-19

The turbo diesel is so commonplace today that naturally aspirated diesels stand out. Go back nearly 60 years and the opposite was true. In 1961, […]

Vintage Diesel Light Trucks: Part One

A chronology of diesel-powered light trucks in America Diesel-powered land vehicles go back a long way in U.S. history, but diesel light trucks are a […]

BACK IN THE DAY

A short History of Ford’s first IDI and DI diesel pickups It was the 1970s, and people were reeling from the shock of gas prices […]

OLDSMOBILE 350 V8

  A Mercedes-Beater That Went Down in Flames It’s not going over the top to say very few engines had more impact on the American […]

SPLIT PERSONALITY

The Massey-Ferguson 97 & Minneapolis-Moline 706 Badge engineering is nothing new. Tractor companies did it as far back as the first decade of the 20th […]

The Third Kind of Binder

A 1955 International Harvester That Scoots here are a lot of rough and rusty old trucks dying in the weeds. They come in three kinds. […]

Canadian Cold Warrior

Royal Canadian Air Force Cockshutt 40D Tug Buy from the home teams,” has long been the a military priority for many countries around the world […]

1939: The First Dodge Diesel

Dodge Was Diesel Before Diesel Was Cool The diesel truck bandwagon was not a big one in the 1930s. In fact, during the late 1930s, […]

TRACTOR TALK

HERE’S THE BEEF! 1952 MASSEY HARRIS 55 DIESEL Massey-Harris tractors had a solid reputation north and south of the border when they debuted a big […]