Tag: Vintage Diesels

A Wildly Custom 1938 Cummins Swapped Dodge Nate Wilson, of Grass Valley, California, wanted something different. In the last few years Nate has become a […]

Whiskey Cummins This story is as much about a pair of Cummins engines that protected thousands of gallons of Seagrams whiskey from 1970 to 1991 […]

Last Scream of the Jimmy In 1954, when Oliver needed a powerful diesel to one-up their competitors, they went to General Motors. The Detroit Diesel […]

The Sixth Time’s a Charm for this Talented Builder. If it’s true that the more you do something, the better you get at it, then […]

The John Deere 2630 The 1970s would bring about one of John Deere’s biggest model line updates, the Generation II tractors. The previous New Generation […]

1961 International B-160 Diesel Demonstrator International was one of the first truck manufacturers to start pushing diesel engines in light and medium duty trucks. Back […]

A few of our favorites from the last 15-years Diesel Swaps tend to be on just about everyone’s list of “one day” projects. So, seeing […]

Classy Tractors With this, we will have covered three of the four Sheppard tractor models built from 1949 to 1956. We covered the SD-3 in […]

1903 Augsburg DM 12 Diesel If you want to see the first compression ignition engine built by Rudolph Diesel, you have to go to Munich, […]

Robbie Watson spent two years collecting parts to fabricate his personal best. Robbie Watson owns his own wrecker service in Branchland, WV and has been […]

1978 Allis-Chalmers 8550 In the early 1970s, Allis-Chalmers joined the ranks of the manufacturers offering articulated four-wheel drive tractors. They started by rebadging the Bearcat […]

1949 Cletrac ADH Cletrac created a new market segment in 1916 when it introduced the diminutive model R crawler. When Rollin H. White founded Cleveland […]

A 14-Class Truck and Tractor Pull in the Land of Lincoln Perhaps no other form of motorsport events had been hit as hard as truck […]

1920 Muncie 5CNA Oil Engine The oil engine was the lower cost variant of the compression ignition engine. With compression ignition, Dr. Rudolf Diesel had […]

A 12-Valve Cummins ’49 Power Wagon on 39’s What happens when you treat the baddest 1-ton 4×4 Classic Dodge truck of all time to a […]

As A Cummins-Powered ’51 Chevrolet You see them all the time, especially during planting and harvest season. The service trucks that show up in the […]

Petter PAZ1 The British built Petter diesel is a storied brand but not well known here in the U.S. The Petter began in 1892 when […]

Trevor Lima’s Immaculate Resto-Mod C10 This Cummins powered Chevy C10 bodied Ford F250 chassis lifted 4×4 creation took Trevor Lima, of Diesel Performance Specialties, over […]

Farmland Rigs Nothing is more pleasing than finding an old tractor that can still run, and looks great while doing so. Most vintage tractors are […]

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 […]