Gray Marine 6-71 General Motors Series

The Gray Marine 6-71 in the Higgins Boat When we talk about a great or historic engine, sometimes we need to talk more about what […]

VINTAGE SMOKE

MACK-LANOVA ED & END DIESELS Some companies often step ahead of their competition. At times, that’s a step too far and requires two steps back, […]

Strange Bedfellows

The Nissan SD and a 1968 Chrysler New Yorker The 1973 oil embargo scared Uncle Sam right out of his red-and-white striped pants. With a […]

1942 INTERNATIONAL TD-18 CRAWLER

When a country goes to war, it’s army needs more than bombers, tanks, cannons, rifles and ammunition. Those are part of what makes the tip […]

VINTAGE SMOKE

1927 CUMMINS MODEL P When 1927 rolled in, the Cummins Engine Company was in it’s eighth year of operation. Founding engineer Clessie Cummins had started […]

VINTAGE SMOKE PINT-SIZED POWERHOUSE

PINT-SIZED POWERHOUSE THE FARYMANN LDS While small diesels are relatively common in North America today, many decades ago they were found mostly in Europe. Such was […]

Hot Rod Lincoln

A 1955 Caterpillar-Powered Lincoln Welder If you hear the word “Caterpillar,” your first thought is probably a bulldozer. However, you might be surprised to know Cat […]

TC-12 Dozer: The Legendary 1964 Euclid

Euclid TC-12 Dozer Companies take a big risk when they introduce something radically different than the norm. When the historical smoke clears, which might be […]
barn find cummins

The 69-Hour Time Capsule: A 1943 Cummins H-Series "Barn Find"

A 1943 Military Generator With 69 hours: Barn Find Cummins Barn finds are the big thing these days and rare muscle cars or exotics usually […]

A New Breed

1965 Farmall 504 What International Harvester called the “New World of Power” launched them into their first line of six-cylinder tractors in 1958. These were […]

OVER THE HILL

RAMSOM OLDS, THE HILL DIESEL ENGINE COMPANY & THE HILL MODEL R Most of you know the Oldmobile name. And since you are a diesel […]

D2 Diesel Tractors: Caterpillar Crawlers

A Tale of Two D2s In the early days of motorized farming, crawler tractors had a big part to play in some parts of the […]

Classic Repower

A Cummins-Powered Ford High-Boy—Built on a High School Budget “I paid for everything and did almost all the work, with some guidance from my dad.” […]

Redneck Rat Rod

A 1958 Ford F-100 with a 5.9L CR Cummins and Allison Transmission Rat Rods are something extremely popular in the hot rod market these days […]

Max Torc: The 1,500-HP 'Cuda

Diesel Muscle It’s not often than you run across a diesel-powered vehicle that’s unlike any other, yet that’s exactly the case with Weaver Customs’ ’70 […]

Homegrown Highboy: The 7.3L-Powered '73 F-250

Classic Blue Rig What do you get when you combine a ’73 F-250 with an early Super Duty? How about a one-of-a-kind Highboy with modern […]

Plum Crazy: 1,200-HP Cummins Plymouth

Purple Performance Perfection The vehicle of choice for most Diesel World readers is a pickup with a really powerful diesel engine. And that was initially […]

200mph or Bust: A 1,000-HP '49 Ford

The Race-Ready Rust Bucket He was asking $350, but I talked him down to $200,” laughs Scott Birdsall, owner of Chuckles Garage, when asked about […]

The 2+2 Tractor: International Harvester

Almost from the beginning of the farm tractor, farmers and engineers fooled around with coupling two tractors together to put more power to the ground. […]
The traditional Persian Orange AC paint was on the way out when this tractor was built, but it’s one of the last of the Allis-Chalmers badged 8070s. In fact, it’s widely reported that the last tractor to roll out off the line in West Allis, Wisconsin, was a Deutz-Allis badged 8070. At the time it was shot, this tractor was on the lot at Wannemacher Sales, an AGCO dealer in Ottoville, Ohio. It’s been upgraded with Firestone radial tires and rear duals, making it a traction powerhouse.

Tractor Talk: Allis-Chalmers 8070, End of The Line

By the time 1985 rolled around, the agricultural side of Allis-Chalmers was 71 years old and the company was drowning in debt in the face […]