1928 Model AA

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Sandman
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Model Year: 1928

1928 Model AA

Post by Sandman »

I have a 1928 Model AA Tow Truck complete with a Weaver wrecker. Asking $ 8750.00
I am located in Ontario, Canada. You can email me with questions at hlangen@zing-net.ca
I can send pictures over the email. Can't seem to get them on this site. Says files too big.
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Harry Lipki
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Body Type: AA Chassis
Model Year: 1928
Location: London Ontario , Canada

Re: 1928 Model AA with pictures

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I managed to shrink down the pictures for sandman ... Here are the pictures of the truck ..... Not bad sandman
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Harry Lipki
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Body Type: AA Chassis
Model Year: 1928
Location: London Ontario , Canada

Re: 1928 Model AA

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Sandman wrote:I have a 1928 Model AA Tow Truck complete with a Weaver wrecker. Asking $ 8750.00
I am located in Ontario, Canada. You can email me with questions at hlangen@zing-net.ca
I can send pictures over the email. Can't seem to get them on this site. Says files too big.
I put some of your pictures on ... nice lookin truck
farmerden
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Body Type: AAC
Model Year: 1928

Re: 1928 Model AA

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Snap it up Harry-Just in case Ol' Yella needs a tow!! :lol:
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Chris Haynes
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Re: 1928 Model AA

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As someone who has been driving tow trucks since the '60's it amazes me when someone says they have a tow truck, when all they really have is a truck with a crane on the bed. It takes a lot more equipment than a crane to tow a vehicle and none of these trucks I have seen have it. Are you supposed to simply grab a vehicle by the bumper, lift it off the ground and go? What will stop it from smashing into the truck when the truck stops? What will stop the vehicle from swinging left to right?
In those days there was an item called a scobie plate the mounted on the rear of the truck. The hook on the crane attached to the scobie plate. The scobie plate was backed up till it was firmly touching the bumper of the vehicle to be towed. Chains were then run from the bottom of the scobie plate to the towed vehicles frame or axle to keep the bumper tight on the scobie plate. This held the towed vehicle in place.
Here is the only picture I have been able to find of a scobie plate on a tow truck. They got replace by slings back in the '60's and the slings got replaced by hydraulic lifts a few years later. However big rig tow trucks often still use them.
http://tow411.yuku.com/topic/97763
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Neil Wilson
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Re: 1928 Model AA

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Well, "those days" must not be the Model A days. The Model A day vendor catalogs do not list/show a scobie plate. They do list something called a distance bar or towing pole which attached to the axle and the tow vehicle. They also list "lifting hooks" and "towing ambulance" All, great items to have with a tow vehicle.
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Harry Lipki
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Model Year: 1928
Location: London Ontario , Canada

Re: 1928 Model AA

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farmerden wrote:Snap it up Harry-Just in case Ol' Yella needs a tow!! :lol:
Hey, now there's a thought ..... :idea: .... now if only I could talk Pepsi into the idea :roll:
Sandman
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Model Year: 1928

Re: 1928 Model AA

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Chris Haynes wrote:As someone who has been driving tow trucks since the '60's it amazes me when someone says they have a tow truck, when all they really have is a truck with a crane on the bed. It takes a lot more equipment than a crane to tow a vehicle and none of these trucks I have seen have it. Are you supposed to simply grab a vehicle by the bumper, lift it off the ground and go? What will stop it from smashing into the truck when the truck stops? What will stop the vehicle from swinging left to right?
In those days there was an item called a scobie plate the mounted on the rear of the truck. The hook on the crane attached to the scobie plate. The scobie plate was backed up till it was firmly touching the bumper of the vehicle to be towed. Chains were then run from the bottom of the scobie plate to the towed vehicles frame or axle to keep the bumper tight on the scobie plate. This held the towed vehicle in place.
Here is the only picture I have been able to find of a scobie plate on a tow truck. They got replace by slings back in the '60's and the slings got replaced by hydraulic lifts a few years later. However big rig tow trucks often still use them.
http://tow411.yuku.com/topic/97763
russ
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Re: 1928 Model AA

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Nice tow truck Sandman. :)

Edited thanks to smarter folks than myself.

Best, russ
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vtwinsideways
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Model Year: 1929
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Re: 1928 Model AA

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I Liked it better before you edited it.
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bgj1956
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Re: 1928 Model AA

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Love to have that TOW TRUCK, again very well stated and explained Russ, Bruce in southern OHIO
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Harry Lipki
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Model Year: 1928
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Re: 1928 Model AA

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I think it is a great lookin' truck --- after all it is a model AA :D -- Who ever puchases this unit will agree . :D
Rob MacDonald
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Re: 1928 Model AA

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One of the things I most like about this website is that unlike other forums (Where, in the presence of 'bad manners', 'conflict', BS or otherwise ignorant behaviour the members utter a collective wail and flee with their metaphoric aprons like a parcel of silly old women - which description does ill-service to most of the old women I know) here the troll is dispatched and his hide salted and nailed to the shed as a warning to the others....

Nice truck.
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rollingsculpture
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Re: 1928 Model AA

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Rob MacDonald wrote:One of the things I most like about this website is that unlike other forums (Where, in the presence of 'bad manners', 'conflict', BS or otherwise ignorant behaviour the members utter a collective wail and flee with their metaphoric aprons like a parcel of silly old women - which description does ill-service to most of the old women I know) here the troll is dispatched and his hide salted and nailed to the shed as a warning to the others....

Nice truck.
FIRST OFF
NIce truck great fair price !! Good Luck .

as for the rest of the thread .....This is bs folks ganging up etc... , ive been following this forum and have learned so very much here from many including both chis and Russ. while it may seem that CH was being rude i really think he was just trying to add a little more info about whats on a tow truck as he relates from his experience . no big thing just a little extra info , i never knew what the parts are called and now i know what a scobie plate is . quite frankly it would be great if this thread can be cleaned up of this hijack by CH and Russ with the original posters editing out the entire texts of their fall out and let the thread be about A TRUCK FOR SALE its been a long winter and your cabin fever is showing guys , get out there and fix your trucks cause you cant fix people.
farmerden
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Model Year: 1928

Re: 1928 Model AA

Post by farmerden »

Welll! It was good to see the truck and it was good to see the sparring! One thing for sure this site is never boring-Just the thing to heat up these cold winter nights!! :lol: Thanks you guys! Den
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