Bonus points to whoever spots my buddy Billy the buck in the video!

@texanbalaban6777

3 жыл бұрын

Mud Bee 🐝 lolz

@pointingdog7235

3 жыл бұрын

I'm soo glad to see her running for you! I'd love to see her up close.

@powerstrokediesels7824

3 жыл бұрын

Diesel Creek I found him

@TheVenom8343

3 жыл бұрын

@@powerstrokediesels7824 Timestamp or it didn't happen!!

@bluberry3026

3 жыл бұрын

Ole Dude he doesn’t have to prove it if he wants to you can’t demand him to do it he can do what he wants.

It's old, slow, noisy, smelly and looks rough as hell. It's absolutely gorgeous and would love to own it.

@corydriver7634

3 жыл бұрын

Mark Wallis Could not have said it better myself.

@johndowe7003

3 жыл бұрын

Just like my mother in law😂 except the second bit

@corydriver7634

3 жыл бұрын

john dowe Doh!

@mohabatkhanmalak1161

3 жыл бұрын

It will make a great work horse, and with that trailer do all sorts of heavy hauling around the county.

@leeharris3061

3 жыл бұрын

@@johndowe7003 i got a mother in law thats similar and shes a 4x4..4 foot tall by 4 foot wide..🤣

Maximum respect to the guys that used to drive these things for a living. My grandfather among them. Men with arms and legs like zeuss but deaf as a post. I tip my hat gentlemen.

@joerogers4227

3 жыл бұрын

Also he was bounced around by that old suspension, no separate suspension to make the seat more comfortable. Kidney killer I heard.

@watsisbuttndo829

3 жыл бұрын

@@joerogers4227 my grandfathers neck was so messed up from the jarring he had a leather strop he used to put his head through that was attached to a cable and pulleys to a bucket of scrap metal on the floor, he would sit down and lift the bucket to straighten his neck, best bit was this contraption was located in his toilet! The look on visitors faces when confronted by a shitter with a noose above it was awesome, grandma wasnt a fan of the system.

@alk5749

3 жыл бұрын

thank you, drove one of those old girls in the oil fields in Texas 50 years ago, 10 years same truck. loved every minute of it.

@jjano2320

3 жыл бұрын

@@watsisbuttndo829 He probably never complained or felt sorry for himself.

The good thing about these old rigs everything was rebuildable along side the road as long as you had a few tools and common wear items on board.

She is one of the most gorgeous machines I've ever seen. I absolutely love old hardware.

Vice Grips on the battery terminal. That’s “factree.”

@mykee426

3 жыл бұрын

Mint 👌

@jenniferwhitewolf3784

3 жыл бұрын

Good field fix! When you have to rig a fix with what you have on-hand, its a win!

@TheVenom8343

3 жыл бұрын

Help me understand!!! I don't knowwww...

@TheVenom8343

3 жыл бұрын

@Paul Veldman I didn't really need help understanding. That is one of Vice Grip Garage's quotes.

@gsmconcretetanks2500

3 жыл бұрын

True strate out of the factory

You can hardly hear it coming, better get that horn going🤙

@bertmurphy8096

3 жыл бұрын

Use it or lose it........

Those old N/A Cummins have such a distinct, beautiful tone when you lean into a load.

I guess even Spielberg would give you 5 stars for this one... IT'S ALIVE..... the effort you put in to make these vids is awesome... great work... superb result Matt.

So glad to see that old girl moving again can't wait to see her hooked up to the lowboy and getting back to work

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

Amen!!!!

@nickslistm246

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree, Matt if you ever get a chance to make it to Indiana, look me up. Lunch or dinner is on me. Your autocar is built similar to my old army trucks. Love to shout the BULL with you over a meal.

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickslistm246 Dont tempt me with a free meal! Ill find something to buy out there just to get the free lunch hahah

@nickslistm246

3 жыл бұрын

@@DieselCreek well come on by, bring the Mrs., your camera And the meatball. my wife loves dogs, hints we have 2 geriatric pups and I'll give you a tour of my collection of old army trucks (5) and trailers (11).

@brotrucks7784

3 жыл бұрын

How much you want to bet it want crank up by its self in the winter

The auto car brings back some fun memories. Dad was chief mechanic for a small oil drilling company in Colorado in the early and mid-50s. I started doing some grease monkey and swamping for him and some of the drivers when I was about 10 or 11 years old. The best job I had was firing up one of the rig trucks when it was time to bring it into the shop for dad to work on. They had a couple of auto cars I don’t remember what year or what type of engine. But watching this Brought back the fun memories of sitting in the cab pulling like crazy on the compression release lever, spinning up the engine and then dropping that compression lever and hearing that engine shake and rattle and finally smooth out. Naturally being 10 or 11 I took the longest way possible from the yard right next to the shop before pulling the truck in the bay. Love an auto car!

@charlesangell_bulmtl

3 жыл бұрын

Well, the old machines like a good easy warm up.....

@boss9mustang404

3 жыл бұрын

dude you had a awesome childhood

Diesel Creek- I worked for a small truck line in Memphis, Tennessee in the mid-seventies and a huge scrap yard had a brand new Autocar with a 3408 Cat engine in it. To a young mechanic it was a real thing of beauty! I had straight pipes and sounded awesome!

“I’m just gonna hammer these corroded terminals on with a ratchet.” Fast forward. “Oh I melted the battery terminal.” Lol

You need a 40s era dozer to go on the low boy, what a sight that would be!

@carterbowe9964

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

@Porty1119

3 жыл бұрын

You got that right. I know where there's a 1947 gas IH dozer for $3500...bad news is it's in New Mexico!

Everybody knows that batteries enjoy “a little tappy tap tap”......don’t listen to the others!

@RobertForslund

3 жыл бұрын

I used to do that all the time on my old machines! Worked every time! 😁

@365hillclimb

3 жыл бұрын

It's one of my favorite "hacks" from KZread.

@johndowe7003

3 жыл бұрын

@CivilDefenseLLC I don't even like using them round post batteries I swap em to the stud style and it.makes life a lot easier and wastes less time.fiddling with em. Round posts get no love from me they get the. Biggest hammer like object first then the vice grips/screw/nail

@otoyayamaguchi5094

3 жыл бұрын

@CivilDefenseLLC Thats the most american thing ive heard today XD

@gtb81.

3 жыл бұрын

every mechanic that's worked on farm equipment has done it at least once, and it worked

I always like to see old school trucks n cars brought back to life ! 👍👍

Wilson Contracting Co. was a road contractor that did a lot of contract work for Delaware DOT in the mid 50s thru late 1970s. They had a yard office in State Road, Where Route 13 and Route 40 come together in New Castle, Delaware. State Road is now considered and addressed as part of New Castle. My uncle who was a foreman in the 60s and 70s for Rupert Construction, who was mainly a concrete company, worked on quite a few road projects with Wilson.

@jackstapleton5818

3 жыл бұрын

Well are you selling a 59 out of cards exactly the same model it had a 10-speed or 96 transmission in it the situation was if that truck there as a air box in a supercharger turn around you have to turn around be careful of how high you push it because to turn around the head bolts on a 220 Cummins don't have enough head bolts in order to hold her down you may have to turn around and do a head gasket repair that's the way it was for me anyway and I always had to use brand new head bolts to turn around because of the situation that they would turn around leak after a few thousand miles but my truck my auto car with my 262 model which is some size of the motor with a with a supercharger on it turned around it so that turn around and been bored out to a 335 there by which I didn't have enough head bolts nor to hold the head together miss my old truck having to turn around and let it get froze split around the middle good luck to you my friend

@jackstapleton5818

3 жыл бұрын

one of the biggest problems was the old trucks was a series parallel switch turned around 1201 side then when you turn around try to start and went to a 24 volt system it always had a problem starting and no soul so I had a problem turning around keeping the batteries charged up you best off to turn around if you're going to do a rebuild just buy a 12 volt starter and go from a positive ground to a negative ground which the old trucks used to be the old truck used to have a

Considering that it's been standing around for the last 15 years it's in better condition than than "bush wacker" you bought LOL

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahah very true!!!

@jeremys3174

3 жыл бұрын

American made. Built to last not replace. Wish we went back to that method

@d.t.4523

3 жыл бұрын

😀

@rickey5353

3 жыл бұрын

@@DieselCreek Love your truck. Does she have the Ross power steering, or manual gearbox.

@jenksify

3 жыл бұрын

He keeps working on the bush wacker long enough he can call it American remade.

Man that's cool as hell. The possibilities are endless with this truck! I have a 1940 Cummings that is mounted on a trailer, I use it to run a pump in a creek to water about 40 acres. I keep the filters cleaned oil full and it fires every time! When I open her up the folks 10 miles away can hear her!

@jasonking2943

3 жыл бұрын

@NNNNNNNGGGG she runs that pump like no body's business cranks Everytime and at night she will have that manifold red hot when you drive down and check o her. I've used her, my dad and granddad got her out of an old truck

@tinoswrld

3 жыл бұрын

Cummins*

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

@@tinoswrld that drives me nuts too lol

@tinoswrld

3 жыл бұрын

@@DieselCreek lol

@2020jd

3 жыл бұрын

Jason King Does it have a backdrop manifold? An N/A Cummins with a backdrop manifold has the most beautiful exhaust bark you’ll ever hear! I hope you post a video of her working one day!

My dad drove autocars as a truck driver hauling steel .when I was a boy, I will never forget the purr of the engine, enjoy it.👍👌😇

Cherish the old iron and save it, no one else will...awesome job Matt.

Oh my God who wouldn't love an auto car look at the bumper on that thing in the way it flows together they built beautiful trucks back then

that truck is actually holding air pressure? that's kinda amazing.

@ethanspaziani5269

3 жыл бұрын

You ever hear the saying they don't build stuff like they used to like this truck for example

@jakealter5504

3 жыл бұрын

@@ethanspaziani5269 my dad’s backhoe was like that, it was able to run and be used despite having multiple problems (one brake was gone, it had multiple leaks, and was missing the seat) until the engine started knocking

@ethanspaziani5269

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakealter5504 we live in a shity world today with all this amazing technology and advancement it looks like we have regressed backwards in terms of useful technology re equipment is suffering from greed not only our society now

@jakealter5504

3 жыл бұрын

@@ethanspaziani5269 sounds right. All my dad’s backhoe needs to be usable is having it’s engine rebuilt. I had accidentally ran the engine too low on oil and didn’t realize it was knocking since the machine is loud, thankfully we shut it down before it could get worse. Hopefully we will eventually rebuild the engine since getting a newer used backhoe in decent shape would cost more than rebuilding the engine would

@ethanspaziani5269

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakealter5504 it's better to repair and keep your old stuff working because new stuff will brake four times faster

So simple and basics yet it did what it needed to do. And after years of neglect still fires up. Try this with a newer truck in 50 years 🤣

@nedlyest

3 жыл бұрын

Shoot alot of the times, you can't even do that after 50 days...

built and runs like a tank!

That things awesome. Love old trucks like that.

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@johnsipes4422

3 жыл бұрын

Diesel Creek yea I’m the kid on Instagram that keeps pesterin ya lol

it's been a pleasure so far watching these videos. it sure brings back memories of driving these on my first real truck driving job. we had two old Autocars and two old Mack's. i can't believe you have 1 dislike on this video.. just be a smart car driver or my brother

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahah 😂

@MakinEndsMeet69

3 жыл бұрын

No it's probably somebody who just don't like Matt

@marcryvon

3 жыл бұрын

They're now 15 loosers ! They're to be everywhere, especially on good channels like Matt's here. Sad.

There used to be alot of these workhorses in the back of my family's home as there used to be an industrial workshop that was abandoned (unknown reason) I would play around there as a kid and my parents would scold me alot! This video brought a load of nostalgia that I could even smell the all familar oil and tires! Good times! Awesome video!

I've watched this numerous times and am impressed again and again with how much work you've invested in your property! You deprecate your efforts but they're quite impressive.

Kinda sounds like, "Christine" after she limps back to the garage. Love old trucks!

Greetings Matt! As the son of a trucker who owned mostly Chevies from the 40s until his last, his only new truck in 1975, I can't tell you how pleased I am and how much I can identify with the feelings you have for your sweet pile of tired iron. Keep up the great work and the super content. I admire your killer work ethic!!

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you much!

That’s awesome, love those old trucks, built tough and well, you can’t kill them. I’m a trucker and today’s trucks can’t hold a candle to those old rigs! Today’s trucks may be modern and full of computers but they aren’t made from quality and won’t last like those old beauties!!

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

No doubt!!, they won’t be able to be fixed either because of all that tech crap

@petebachelder1131

3 жыл бұрын

@@DieselCreek That's right, we live in a throw away society today, my current truck a 2020 Kenworth and it will probably be in the scrapheap someday and that gem you have will still be running and looking sweet. Hold on to that Autocar !! Some day I'm gonna buy a truck like the one you have, I already own a Greatdane trailer mostly for storage, but I will need a cab to pull it.

Please do a restoration series on this, you will win the Internet man, love all your videos 🤙🤙

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

I’m planning on it!!

Omg I’ve been waiting for this

@TheRCBasher69420

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@JohnTaylor-kh1sv

3 жыл бұрын

Me too i hope we get a up date on the trailer for it

@myyracommunity4932

3 жыл бұрын

Yeeeees finally

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

All in due time!

When you drove up the gravel drive with the camera on the ground and horn blaring, I suddenly had a flashback to Spielberg's first film, "Duel". 😊 Just love seeing this old iron get used again. BTW if you can't find a cab, maybe at least some doors and you won't have to do so much patchwork.

Matt, I love your excitement about this old truck. It's so great to se people like you saving old equipment from the boneyard.

I LOVE your minimalist execution of equipment shed!!!

Such a sight!! Definitely made my morning!

What a awesome truck it happens to be 1 year newer then me rock on Matt

Always a great feeling to get an old beast going again!

Glad you're having fun with the old girl. Can't wait to see her shiny and road worthy again. All the best from down under.

That was a lot more enjoyable than I thought it would be to watch. You did a great job with the narration and photography. Your enthusiasm also helped!

She's an ol' beauty. I hear music coming from the exhaust pipe!(well maybe its coming directly the manifold)

@hemiroyd7431

3 жыл бұрын

She has a muffler on passenger side,,prefferenly a stack

@wolfrig2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@hemiroyd7431 what Ed means is it sounds like the exhaust is exiting under the hood, most likely from a rust hole. Nothing too hard to fix if the owner wants it quieter! I prefer my trucks as quiet as possible, but my trucks are all for daily use and not for showing off!

That engine noise gives me a big smile. Love old machines. 👏🏻

That's so good to see it running, loving this series/playlist

That truck has so much character. Congrats on getting her rolling.

SHE LIVES! Nothing like Christmas in August. Congratulations on getting her moving down the road.

It’s one of the only things you can drive at 10 miles an hour and be happy

Oh that sound bought back a memory or two, had driven a 180 Cummins in an A series ERF when I first started driving articulated lorries back in the day .

Dude ! I am stoked for you ! Love that truck !

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

I like that old thing :) Glad you can drive it (some what)!

Matt, greetings from Philippines , everytime I see and hear old machines you repaired start and run , I find joy ! Thanks for the video!

I love seeing old equipment come to life!

Love the video! So happy for you. What a great truck! Can't wait to see your next video.

This truck is what brought me to this channel. Keep up the good work!

Great series of videos, looking forward to seeing many more on this old gem.

I loved the sound of this beauty and look forward to seeing your progress. You sound like you have the skills and knowledge to make this a show-stopper. Thank you. - Dean from Minnesota

just to keep it short I LOVE IT

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!!

I almost started yelling, “don’t hook that trailer”. Good thing you’re smart. That falls under, work smarter not harder.

@tomrausch7014

3 жыл бұрын

If you HAD hooked that trailer and the fifth wheel jammed you would have probably had to unbolt or cut the fifth wheel (legs) away from the truck and leave it hang under the trailer so you could get to the locking mechanism. 240 ish pounds of cast steel just poised to fall on you.

"Exellent video" love seeing these old Rigs comeing Alive again. Great job. Cheers Grant ; )

Hey Matt, good video, I'm proud of you. Life is tough and we all work hard but every now and then, we get one of those rare moments where we feel like we're winning. You driving your 1957 Autocar tractor, on the road you built, on your own property... buddy you were winning that day! 👍🏻👊🏻

I Seldom leave comments, but I felt it was worth leaving one. A-cars are just awesome! Great video!

Sweeeeet! Love the sound of those old diesels. Awesome to here it and see it move. Paying homage to Derek didn't hurt. He's fun to watch too.

That’s freaking awesome, this truck is sick, and driving it decades later is even more awesome

What a cool old truck ! Thanks for sharing

Let’s hope the next video on this beauty doesn’t take as long to come out

Right on brother! will be watching this as soon as my work meeting is over with lmao

Newer viewer to the channel and lemme just say I've loved all of your videos so far. This one is by far my favorite, how effortlessly that old truck starts up once you got it fixed up is amazing, old steel really is stout.

Just so cool. Hope you take good care of it and bring her back to full glory!

I am stuck at home with a bum knee, and while I am not one of the guys I friggin love this channel.

@d.t.4523

3 жыл бұрын

Audiance applause counts, Ma'am! 😀

@mdemers767

3 жыл бұрын

A bum knee? Does that mean it has a crack in it? xD

I agree, you’ve got a Cool truck. I’ll be watching to see if get her fixed up.

Neat old truck thanks for keeping it around.

Thanks for another right up my street video, I feel your joy with motors, I have had 50 years of this great life with old trucks. Good luck.

It was nice to see the ole girl moving along again!

Really sweet AutoCar, one of my favorite trucks especially the older ones like you have and love them in the single axle.

I’ve been waiting for this,congratulations.

I don’t know anywhere near enough but with a truck like this boy would I learn quickly. It would give me so much joy to clean and restore this truck, but not to all brand new parts.

Cool as hell. Amazing that it hasn’t moved in 15+ years. Seems that old technology pretty much never lets you down. Good luck in the future Matt with your planned restoration. I’ll be looking forward to it.

@Porty1119

3 жыл бұрын

Iron, mechanical linkages, no electrical gizmos besides gauges and an hourmeter - that's how equipment should be.

That's awesome you mentioned Derek from VGG. Both of y'all's channels are awesome to watch.

Thumbs up for checking the oil. Never hurts, and only takes a second.

The kind of guy who will not allow the jaws of defeat from taking victory away from him. Fighting to the end, whatever it takes. Very, very good!

So glad this is here

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

Glad your here to watch it!

I live where autocar is made my cousin owns a factory which does the wiring harness for the new autocar trucks

she's taking the fuel pretty darn good! Sounding better the more you drove it.... Impressive that the brakes worked too

Takes me back in the day, areal beauty. Vice grip clamps keep things workin like the should. Great job Matt !!

I love the sound please restore it but just enough to be safe dont fix the paint or the look

@scdevon

3 жыл бұрын

The gnarly old patina is great. That trick of buffing the paint and surface rust with beeswax can preserve the look without it getting worse.

about time . soo excite

@DieselCreek

3 жыл бұрын

So was I!

Wow!!!! Looks good on ya. Almost brings tears to my ears to hear it run.

Yeah! It runs and drives. Awesome to see 😎 thanks for sharing

Thats awesome. I love it! Alittle jealous

@ernestpassaro9663

2 жыл бұрын

Like.how it says diesel on the hood lol

That's awesome! The Autocar is what brought me to your channel. Happy to see the old girl driving. More double clutching.... Lol

Cosmetic damage! Look at that gorgeous patina! Don't you dare touch that glorious paint!

That was the coolest thing I've ever seen oh, I've always been a big car guy and that was awesome thank you very much for taking the time to film that!

Man, that engine sounds GOOD spinning up! Kind of like an air starter.

I’ve been waiting for this one for a while!! I love that truck!! I would hope you’re going to put the spring brake cans on there when you start working on it. When I first started driving trucks we had a couple trailers at work that were older and didn’t have spring brakes on them. If you didn’t hook up the air lines and charge the brakes they would roll back wards as the air would leak off and the brakes released! Keep up the great videos Matt!

@jonka1

3 жыл бұрын

Back in the 70s here in the UK trailers had an automatic system to apply the brakes with air from a tank when the tractor unit was disconnected. This was ok unless the trailer had a slow air leak. I've seen many drivers back under trailers and push them back where they shouldn't be because the brakes had let go. Can work out very expensive. Now they have spring brake chambers.

It's fun bringing them back to life. I just resurrected a 74 corvette that's been sitting for at least 15 yrs. A lot if work but it's sure fun to drive. Good job. God bless

Real nice video , thanks for sharing it with us all and best of luck with the truck .

i love your cargo container shed and if you want to make it longer you could just add more and make them back to back and even connect doors in the middle to walk through

@mdemers767

3 жыл бұрын

I like it too, but I've wondered how well they drain water off the top though... If they weren't slightly pitched outwards from the awning end, would water pour into the dry covered area during a heavy rain? And if it were tilted, would that limit the interior usability due to the floor being tilted? Or did Matt just say the heck with it, install the containers plumb, and Blackjack the heck out of the seams...

@dfross87

3 жыл бұрын

@@mdemers767 If you watch the container shop build videos, there's a 1" slope towards the outside.

@danhard8440

3 жыл бұрын

thinking about it you could do the plastic gutters there rally cheep and just shed the water away

@dfross87

3 жыл бұрын

@@danhard8440 Finish the roof, walls and floor first. Fancy guttering can come later.

Something made the same year i was made that can start right up is really impressive! PS: Loved the video!

I love those old trucks. They look so damn cool. I'm always amazed how those old diesel's will start with so little tinkering. It'll be so nice to see going down the road.