Vintage Diesels

1972 Allis Chalmers DES-550 Generator Sometimes the best ideas come to a company and bear fruit at the worst possible times. Such was the case […]

1949 Mack Model 75 with Jimmy Power While this Vintage Smoke column usually centers around period original diesels, this  Mack drew our attention. While it’s […]

1978 Case 1570 Agri King Case was within sight of the top power tier of the tractor market when it debuted the 70 series tractors […]

International Harvester’s Gas Start Diesels Making diesels user friendly was an uphill struggle in the late 1920s and early ‘30s. The advantages of the compression-ignition […]

You Otto Know The engine in this story is one of the last built in the United States with a direct connection to the beginnings […]

1970 Allis-Chalmers 220M Military In 1970, the United States Air Force announced it’s first operationally ready Bare Base squadron, the 336th Tactical Fighter Squadron. Part […]

1977 EMD 16-645E6 Anybody here think their truck will still be in service 111 years from now? Here’s a 118 year old tugboat that remained […]

1961 Case W5 Terraload’r By Jim Allen In the mid 1950s, ongoing market research at J.I. Case determined they needed a line of wheel loaders […]

Fairbanks-Morse Model 38 By Jim Allen How do you fit ten pistons into five cylinders and make a running diesel engine? Well, the diesel engine […]

1964 Minneapolis Moline 602E The M-Series Minneapolis-Moline tractors debuted in 1960, replacing the 5-Star tractors of the late 1950s in the middleweight tractor role. It […]

Where Vintage Engines Come to Live Again If you follow Vintage Smoke you will know we’ve covered engines from the Coolspring Power Museum several times […]

1983-87 International/Ford 6.9L IDI Public and governmental outcry after the oil shortages of the early ‘70s forced U.S. auto, light truck and commercial truck makers […]

1960 John Deere 435 and 440 John Deere was just couple of years away from debuting a completely new line of tractors when they found […]

Whether you’ve seen them in person or not, you know there are diesel in ships and boats, road vehicles of all types, off road vehicles […]

1967 Massey Ferguson 165 Hi-Hi Consult the books on Massey Ferguson tractors and you will see no high clearance model of the MF165 listed. So […]

1964 Cummins  VT12-825-M Not all diesel engines have glamorous jobs in fancy places… like under the hood of your pickup. Some toil in the dark, […]

1966 International Harvester Farmall 1206 The Farmall 1206 was International’s first over-100 horsepower tractor as well as being the first over-100 horsepower rowcrop tractor on […]

1962 Massey Ferguson 65 Dieselmatic The Massey-Ferguson 65 Diesel debuted for 1958. The DNA for that tractor started with the 1939 intro of the Ford-Ferguson 9N, […]

1944 Kahlenberg B-5 The name Kahlenberg may inspire only quizzical looks from a modern diesel pickup enthusiast. If you operated boats on the Great Lakes […]

The 1961-68 Jeep CJ-5 Perkins Diesels In 1960, if you were on of the very few Americans who wanted a diesel in a car, light […]