I bought my KB-5 in 1960. It was my first vehicle at sixteen. My mother loved it because she knew I would not kill myself while driving it.
Remember taking a date to a dance in the old truck. I didn't have the heart to tell her there was a grease stain on the back of her yellow dress. I could have sworn that her portion of the seat was clean.
I made alot of changes to it. Put in a small block Chevy after throwing a rod in the Green Diamond engine. It was OK but replaced it with a 4-53 Detroit. Much better. Found a two speed out of a Loadstar and got better top speed.
I used it for 12 years in my sandblasting business. It always weighed at 18,000 lbs when leaving for a job. I replaced it with a new 1980 S-1954 w/DT 466 and tandem axles. That truck would weigh in a 49,000 when pulling out from underneath my silos.
Still have the KB. Been thinking of putting on a hook lift or roll-back for hauling tractors. I wonder if my 660 at 12,000 lbs would crush it. The coffin lift was used for hauling big loads of granite.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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