Tag: Vintage Diesel

1951 Caterpillar D364 Entry Into Diesel Electric Power In the ‘30s, Caterpillar entered the diesel electric generator market. Cat assembled the units in house, sourcing […]

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 […]

A Duramax and Allison-Swapped 4100 Series Chevrolet It was supposed to just be a work truck, but for Phil Prinster—a man that’s made his old […]

Two Surviving Prototype Scout Diesels The International Scout was diesel before diesel was cool. Diesels were nothing new for International Harvester, in their truck lines […]

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 […]

Diesel Hot Rods That Pack A Punch Among this list are some of the craziest looking builds that may look worn or small, but pack […]

American Muscle Showcasing American Diesel Muscle cars are some of the most iconic cars in the automotive community because of their history and mind-blowing performance. […]

Kicking Ass With Some Class! These diesel Chevy trucks have quite a few years under their belt, however, they’re still performing as if they’re right […]

Classy & Powerful Diesel Tractors The 1950s was the last decade in which the small crawler was a player in the agricultural tillage industry. To […]

A 1950 Cat D315 Caterpillar was on a roll before World War II and rapidly dominating the crawler market. The war sped that roll up […]

America’s Original Brand Featuring Vintage Power The modern diesel trucks are some of the coolest vehicles seen on the road, however, the older diesels still […]

1969 MASSY-FERGUSON 1130 The early 1960s marked the beginning of the large scale application of turbocharging to diesels in the tractor world. Massey-Ferguson’s (MF) first […]

Fairbanks-Morse 36A Engines Fairbanks-Morse was a well-established engine manufacturer when they started the development of their first four-stroke, high-speed diesel in 1932. The term “high-speed” […]

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, […]

1999 Massey Ferguson 271 In every walk of life there are people who work in the background and just get stuff done. Nothing about them […]

The start of the ‘60s was when the passenger car horsepower races got hot and heavy, but not many car guys know the same thing […]

When we first spotted Bill Cielo’s ’58 Chevy pickup at a local dyno event, we literally ran over to see if it was diesel powered. […]

By the late 1950s, Oliver was still a major player in the tractor market, but more and more, bigger players were overshadowing the manufacturer. Oliver […]

In the world of custom trucks every detail counts, and the more unique those details are the better. Randy Weaver, owner of Weaver Customs in […]

You’re forgiven if “WD-40” brought something else to mind. Before that incredibly useful product was invented, there was an equally useful product with the same […]