Helms Bakery Tow Truck Discovered on Old Route 66 (Mother Road) while searching for a Mater.
I wanted a mater for an astrolabe, came accross this vintage numbers matching Lambert Wrecker on Route 66 in Essex, CA. Astrolabe See: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolabe
This 1957 International Lambert Tow Truck started life as a service and recovery truck for Helms Bakery in Culver City Ca., "The First Bread on the Moon". Helms Bakery might have had several tow trucks, Helms had whole fleet of bread trucks and support vehicles. At one time Helms had over 500 bread trucks and service vehicles. http://helmsbakerydistrict.com/history/helms-photos The industrial quality of the IH cab and chassis Model A132 was chosen to be the foundation this rare Lambert Tow Truck was built upon. This 1957 International A130 chassis left the Springfield Ohio International Harvester assembly line on April 19, 1957, then shipped by either rail or truck via Route 66 to Los Angeles. At that time, Lambert Co LTD was located at 1202 E Olympic Blvd in Los Angeles, California and was the West Coast Ernest Holmes Distributor, also Lambert built their own bodies and complete turn-key tow trucks. http://www.towtimes.com/?p=3136 This one is equipped with its original Holmes 400 Wrecker (dated June 1957), the rare Plus Body with Tool Compartment with CA dimensions of 60" (dated July 8, 1957). This Wrecker is also equipped with a rare scobie plate or flat plate sling, used mostly on the West Coast. The large flat surface face of the plate matched the matching flat faces of all Helms Bakery Trucks. http://tow411.yuku.com/reply/854652/Re-OK-school-me-on-Scovie-plates#.TyAwfuN5nTo Even the later panel trucks had large flat custom grill guards. So in July of 57, a true West Coast Step-side Tow Truck was born sporting that familiar shinny Helms Bakery Yellow over Black, Dark Walnut Brown or Coffee paint scheme I remember as a kid living in Bellflower, Whittier, and Long Beach back in the 50's and 60's, http://gombessa.tripod.com/scienceleadstheway/id5.html Helms Bakery or Lambert are no longer in bussines. Here the Essex Towing truck has been sitting waiting patiently for me to come along so I can pamper her. Parked only fifty feet off the original old Route 66 (pre-1931 alignment, dirt road seen in the background), where she has sat for 10 years or more and has made the Hot Mojave Desert home since the closing of Helms Bakery in 1969. After Helms, the little tow truck helped relocate or salvage the thousands cars off of this stretch of Route 66 to Barstow or Needles as Interstate 40 was to bypass this stretch of road by 1972. Here she sits and listens to the BNSF trains as they sound the warning at the Sunflower Springs level crossing. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_crossing Standing about a hundred yards to the west on Route 66, across from the fully functional and staffed Cal-Trans Yard, sits a cute Radiator Well the Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA Insurance) erected in 1940. This little drinking fountain in the desert provided a much needed FREE drink of clean cool water for all those thirsty automobile radiators. Back in the days most stops in the Hot Mojave desert charged 10 cents a gallon for dirty radiator water, John Steinbeck wrote a book about those days, "The Grapes of Wrath". http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath The free range cattle for cow tipping provided by the Blair Ranch, you will notice the cattle guards and cow warning signs as you pass through town. Say hello to JR and John at their little tire shop that is still in business when you stop by Essex. Essex Ca was bypassed by interstate 40 in 1972, leaving Essex a Ghost Town almost. But thanks to Johnny Carson, in 1977, Essex got TV Reception for the first time ever. The whole town was then invited to Burbank to the Johnny Carson Show. John and the Little Tow Truck had to stay home to watch out for the travelers.
Just a note, the litte tow truck has since been relocated. As far as I know, this is the only remaining Lambert Built Tow Truck known to exist.
Essex Ca is also known as "Free Water" and the Heart of the Mojave Desert according to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
http://www.cart66pf.org/Map/66mojave2.htm
1932 FWD Tow Truck
1932 FWD Tow Truck, my dad wants to restore it . was the waupaca county tow truck for over 40 years!! it has an old cummins diesel in it ''super power'' inline 6
this thing is a monster too. loud as hell, with that straight pipe rite off the manifold, i think the story on it is they started building it in 1932 and didn't finish it until the 40's . its a cool machine.if you have any cool old story's about this thing plz feel free to post them ! i don't think there's many of these out there. would be cool to see this thing roar down main st. someday again!!
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Route 66 Dust Bowl relics
On a vacation drive accross the U.S., I found lots of cool old cars sitting in fields. These I found abandoned off the old mother road, 66. Could they be old broken down, old dust bowl depression era cars? California or bust? that busted? Like the jalopy the Joed's drove in the movie "The Grapes of Rath"? Unbelieveable what is still out there... waiting to be found when you goof up and take a wrong turn off the beaten path in a small town along Route 66. I once got lost in Colorado and found a 57 Chevy convertible, and it was cheap so I bought it.
Dinosaur Towing...barn find. Old Chevy Tow truck working
Look what the "Dinosaur" drug home. The old 1949 Chevy tow truck tows again after not towing for a couple of years and sitting. It started right up and went back to work, "Lets GO..." I got one of those who ever gets here first can get this collector car cheap, calls. Check it out, its straight and solid and people like these. It also has all the options, fact air, PS, PB, PW, and power bucket seats. SEE MY OTHER OLD CAR VIDEOS!!!
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1956 GMC 250 Tow Truck
Harold LeMay had the world's largest private collection of classic and vintage autos. June 2, 2012 marks the grand opening of the LeMay collection at America's Car Museum in Tacoma, WA. Many of the cars that have been housed in warehouses for many years are on display there.
Several years ago when the collection was scattered around at various locations, Lance Lambert of The Vintage Vehicle Show visited Harold's wife Nancy at her home to view some of the cars that were displayed there. Here, Lance looks at a 1956 GMC 250 which was used as a LeMay tow truck.
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Worst tow truck driver (part 3)
just so every one knows i was 11 when i took this so look past my dumb ass commentary yeah believe me i know i sound stupid. any way i told him we could move it and he said no a few times if you look in part one he said that and even if the car was not the best it was still really unprofessional for him to do it the way he did you only do that if you canot move the car not if we could move
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1960's rusted old Tow Truck, Autocar Diesel trucks, TOW SHOW 2011
Spotted some still functioning 1960's era rusted old Tow Trucks "Tow Show" 2011. These are Autocar diesel trucks with Cummins engines in them. The blue truck is a 1958 model completely functional and still used as a tow truck to this day. Check out my channel for more cool videos of these trucks and more:
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Owner and IDOT Trash C5 Corvette, 2:00am, 3/18/11
I heard the screeching tires and the impact from my office, and grabbed the camcorder.
Day-amn! This graduate of the Lance Briggs School of Hi-Performance Driving had hit the retaining wall so hard, it sheared the spokes right off the rim of one of the wheels. Steel and rubber doughnut, anyone?
Clear, dry road, gentle curve, wide, well-marked lanes, beautiful, mild 50-degree Friday morning -- how do they continue to do it? Oh, well, as long as they do, you'll see it here first.
I'll let you be surprised with --- the REST --- of the story. Watch, enjoy, and if you're feeling a little schadenfreude for a Vette owner with too much money and too little common sense, you're human.
