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Can someone tell how this RIG makes a turn???

Johny

 

Does not look like it but I bet it articulates right behind the pickup and what looks to be a Montclair breezeway.

 

The last 6 vehicles are on a separate trailer and functions like a tow behind...

 

Exactly, I remember these when I was a kid. My Dad drove for Anchor Motor Freight back in the 60's.

 

Very cool!

 

Nice new 1963 Fords and Mercury's

 

Wow am I really that old that I can remember seeing these.

 

Very cool, I had an Econoline van like that, back in the beginning of my Hippie days... good memories! But I would love to have that Econoline pickup now!

 

You really don't have to be all that old to see this type setup... It is still used today by some transport companies...

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There is a low-down fifth-wheel just below the rear bumper of the tractor. The trailer does not have landing gear, so when you drop the trailer you need a couple of large wooden blocks or similar to hold the trailer off the ground and level.

 

My Club Wagon is a couple years newer than those Econolines, and this is how I hauled it last fall.

 

Was that how a normal allotment of cars were delivered. I'm guessing with the variety of vehicles on there they were headed to a display somewhere not to a dealer lot or did they get shipped like that sometimes.

 

As depicted in the photo I posted, it appears those are new vehicles headed to a dealership...

 

I would say that this load is headed to more than one dealership, since Mercury wasn't usually sold by Ford dealers. The line up was Ford as a stand along dealership, and Lincoln Mercury dealerships. Difficult to know for certain 60+ years later.

 

I remember watching the Anchor Motor Freight trucks back in the 60's & early 70's delivering new cars in late August and early September as a kid, and then the dealers 'hiding' the cars until the grand sale day. I do not recall any of the manufacturers offering a flat bed pick-up truck as seen in the photo. Maybe it was picked up at a special services shop that installed the flat bed on a cab only order or removed the standard bed.