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Harry Hill

So the wife and I were out walking our dogs this morning and I noticed this huge flat bed truck and trailer moved along side a fence. It was a mid 20's model I had never heard of before, a Fageol. It had hard rubber tires and no doors, only curtains where the doors would be, it looked like two shift levers and a propeller shaft brake handle and the hood has a series of huge louvers, each the width of the hood and maybe four or five inches tall, about eight of them over the full length of the hood. It looks to be in real good shape. I can't ever remember seeing a hard rubber tired vehicle that big before.

Harry

faustmb

Take another walk and snap some pics

You have my curiousity up now.

Matt

RL Chilton

Fageol's were the forerunners to Peterbilt. Made Fageol Trucks up to mid-thirties (?).

Harry Hill

Matt, I'll take some pics on this afternoons walk. Russell, very interesting history on the company and some really different looking vehicles. I remember the large vans the moving companies used to use. I think my Dad and I started for Illinois once in a Fageol van when I was about 4. We were going back to move my Aunt, Grandmother and cousins out to California. Somewhere in New Mexico we broke an axle and had to take the bus back home. For some reason I can remember the look of that twin coach van they built. In those days my dad would have bought an old van like that instead of paying someone to move the family. Not much longer after that my Aunt just drove out and paid movers to get her stuff out here.

Harry

Browniepetersen

Harry,

There were a lot of those big old trucks that were used in the mines and lumber companies here out west. A local friend passed away a few years back and he had a passion for them. I sold him a 1905 Mack fourty years ago. He also had a 1916 Packard, a 1907 IHC and a few others that I cannot remember the names of. All were big (2 ton?) trucks, hard tires and most of them were chain driven. The auction included 21 trucks built before 1920, all with the hard rubber tires--and not one of the "BIG" three were represented in the sale. Oh, and yes--not a Hudson in the lot...

Harry Hill

Brownie, I remember seeing these old trucks in gangster movies when the bad guys were hauling shine. No doors, no seatbelts, just pure pucker power holding you to the seat while guys with machine guns rode shotgun. Seeing that old truck made me want to load a couple of hundred oak barrels on that bed and make a run to the docks.

Harry

Harry Hill

faustmb wrote:

Take another walk and snap some pics You have my curiousity up now.

Matt

Let's see if I remember how to do this.

Harry

WildWasp

KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Haulers! Fageol trucks were still in use when I was a kid. BIG OLE DUDES.

LanceB

Very cool Harry. So whats on the bed of that hauler?

Harry Hill

LanceB wrote:

Very cool Harry. So whats on the bed of that hauler?

It has it's very own flat bed trailer made by Fageol on the bed of the truck, all hard rubber tires.

Harry

SuperDave

When I was just a pup, the Railway Express in Pittsburgh used solid rubber tired trucks that were chain drive. open cab. (Showing my age now).. I wonder what they were.. Mack?

MikeWA

Wonder if Fageol is the same as the family that had the Gale unlimited hydroplanes, from Detroit, in the 1950's, that were the bane of the Slo Mo Shun IV and V and Miss Thriftway hydros from Seattle? I remember the owner of the Gales was Lou [Fageol?], but I'm guessing at the spelling of the last name, because I don't think I ever saw it in print.

mars55

This site gives good history of Fageol and yes Mike, Lou Fageol was involve in boat racing. His father Frank was the head of the Fageol Twin Coach Company. See history at bottom of page.

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/f/fageol/fageol.htm

And this site has lots of pictures of Fageol vehicles.

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/fageol.htm

Harry Hill

Same family I think but Lou was racing Indy cars and stuff like that. He actually built and all wheel drive racer that was second in qualifyiing at Indy, pretty cool car, read about him hear.

http://www.fageolsupersonic.com/virtual/fageolsupersonic/Default.aspx

Harry

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