what a great story! the stories are just as important as the truck itself. the fact it is missing the "i" is a great conversation starter. that is one super slick trailer.
Nice to see that someone has a passion to keep old trucks alive so many people these day simply scrap them for newer ones left to for or cut up the driver door makes it individual wonder if anyone else spotted it who knows lol great content fantastic footage thank you for sharing brilliant stunning scenery stunning
Hey, Ken and Ben - I am 70 in a few weeks! I am getting better with age! Moved from Kentucky to retire here in Daytona Beach Florida! No more snow shoveling! Thanks for the videos, 406 Garage and peace be with you!
For Ken seeing Ben's work that truck is definitely off to a good home. So glad Ben got that truck. It's in for a great rest of its life. Nice find ben. Can't wait to see it working around the shop.
in 1980, When I was 9 years old my family moved to Brownsville (and still live here). And I remember seeing that tow truck around town. 😊 I'm glad it is going to be saved. 😊 And the phone number on the side of the truck is still a working phone number for Napa in Brownsville Oregon. 😊 And this past Saturday, I seen Gary that used to own the fire truck that you bought a few months ago. 😊 His daughter Amy is married to one of my nephews. 😊 Love the videos. 😊
THATS I NICE TOW TRUCK LIKE YOU SAID DON"T SEE ANY AROUND ANYMORE .IT"S NEAT THAT KEN & HIS FAMILY RAN & STILLL RUN THE BUSINESS YOU MIGHT THINK ABOUT KEEPING THE NAME ON THE TRUCK THAT ADDS TO THE NOSTALGIA OF IT & THE WHOLE AREA IT SERVED
Awesome truck with a great story. The misspelling definitely ads to the character of a awesome truck. I can't wait to see more videos of it. Have a great day and stay safe.
Very kool can't wait to see it restored there were a few where I grew up learned a lot how to operate one similar to that one from my uncle's friend very 👍🙂🐺🐾
I like your story telling. Great trucks. Will be watching more but hopefully less of my stories in future. You like the D series for work trucks, I have some D-150 200 500 but my "Tonka toys" I call them are an L-205 semi tractor, couple of R-185 Firetrucks, R-192 grain truck, and a parts tractor, RF-194 gravel dump, concrete mixer and a tow truck that was custom built to extricate concrete mixers. The tow truck boom extends to 42 foot reach and is capable of lifting the entire truck or tractor that I want to move from point a to point b. I also use it to move steel grain bins. I use that one average 4 times a week whereas the others a few times a year but I love to have them to be able to do stuff myself. Makes work fun.
That Peterbilt is stupid sweet. Great story and find on the tow truck. Ken seems like in great guy. Happy retirement Ken. It' will be nice seeing the tow truck working. Nice video. Edit: I failed to mention the Old Scout story. Great bit of history I've never heard before. Good stuff.
I always enjoy your videos and in my opinion you have an interesting collection with those style of trucks. I am looking forward to your next video since I never know what to expect
Another great find. I've seen people use linseed oil on paint like this one with good low budget results. A great cleaner that will clean and degrease anything without hurting paint can be found at the dollar store, for a dollar, is AWESOME. It could not have been named any better because it is an awesome cleaner. Not only around the shop and vehicles but in the house for grease on the stove and you can even spray it on grease spots on clothes and it's gone. Been using it for years and have bottles sitting around within reach everywhere. I usually put a windex sprayer head (the best ones made) on the bottles for the best results.
Ben when you are done with your servicing of this truck would you consider doing a video of all the things this rig can do! America has car shows to be able to see the cars from the past but I don't recall seeing or hearing about a show of service related vehicles and what they do. Thank you for your time and talent!
I wish I could find My late Fathers old Scout and get a hold of it.. He passed away in 77 and the step mom sold it... They lived in Mammoth Utah at the time..
The city that I work for in the 80s had a 1600 C cab with 5sp two sp split road tractor that pulled a low boy trailer the engine was a big block bigger than the 345 great video keep up the good work God bless from GA
Many years ago a local used car dealer had a similar '72 or '73 like that but not four wheel drive, last time I remember seeing it a local salvage yard had it,on the doors it said Super Binder, another fellow from back home had a '68 1200 that he converted to 1 ton and built a wrecker bed on it but I don't think he ever got all the bugs out of it.
I love cabovers they don't ride bad 79 Pete and 79 freightshaker are my latest and hauling grain to D7G dozers on mainly gravel and dirt rows love them the 82 13 letter sh@t spreader got its front axle relocated against the drive in a head on with a drunk in a 72 caddy and junked it I've got it for parts looking for another but damn they're hard to find
I had two she beagles, sometimes they would get it in their heads that they wanted to go for a ride. There was no peace until they got a ride. They rode good so I really didn’t mind usually.
I think beer may have had something to do wth that mis spellng? Just sayn' Good fnd Ben! We are so fortunate here in Oregon that a workng truck for forty years is still solid and going BACK to work! Thanks Ben. Todd Konoske the retired trucker.
Lol. That shouldn't have been much of a surprise to anyone who has known a old school sign painter. 🤣 They would normally fix it, though. All I can think is that it went unnoticed for so long, that Ken's brother just never bothered to have the guy fix it. 🤷♂️
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Great job old wreckers lives matters too
Another great rescue ..and story
this is the reason you can be so in love with your trucks and cars.they eather talk to you or you get mad when they dont. oh yaw l love the wreacker
Great truck, Great story, glad you saved it!
Great truck and story! Thanks for saving it!
what a great story! the stories are just as important as the truck itself. the fact it is missing the "i" is a great conversation starter. that is one super slick trailer.
Thank you , I agree 💯, the story is the sole of the truck
That's right. Save the old stuff, we need them back in service. It's been my hobby for a while now...saving old cars and trucks. Nice video.
Great story' Great Guy' Great find! Congratulation's for your new addition.
That is a very nice truck. You bought a gem there.
Great story, glad it will continue to be used.
Very cool! I like it! Yeah he didn't look like he was 70. Happy belated birthday to him.
Great video Ben. Can't wait to see you rebuilt this tow truck
It's great to know the provenance of these old guys.
Love the pod cast recommendations!
better to let it go and live on.
ken your family and truck I'm sure we're a blessing to your community.
enjoy momma and the steak dinner.
That’s a cool tow truck!
Nice to see that someone has a passion to keep old trucks alive so many people these day simply scrap them for newer ones left to for or cut up the driver door makes it individual wonder if anyone else spotted it who knows lol great content fantastic footage thank you for sharing brilliant stunning scenery stunning
Awesome truck
Great story Ken nice to meet you!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸
It's an amazing truck and am glad your keeping it and it's history alive.
Cool truck
Loved your video. Enjoyed listening to Ken and his history story.
Another great story and IH.
Hey, Ken and Ben - I am 70 in a few weeks! I am getting better with age! Moved from Kentucky to retire here in Daytona Beach Florida! No more snow shoveling! Thanks for the videos, 406 Garage and peace be with you!
Happy retirement Ken. That’s one cool old wrecker, great find and save.
That is a nice classical truck
Awesome truck and story. Thanks for sharing
Ken is a cool guy. And I love that old tow truck. I will be 70 myself next June.
Thanks Ken for passing this along to be used again.
For Ken seeing Ben's work that truck is definitely off to a good home. So glad Ben got that truck. It's in for a great rest of its life. Nice find ben. Can't wait to see it working around the shop.
Cool Truck and great story love to see these old trucks put back on the road
in 1980, When I was 9 years old my family moved to Brownsville (and still live here). And I remember seeing that tow truck around town. 😊 I'm glad it is going to be saved. 😊 And the phone number on the side of the truck is still a working phone number for Napa in Brownsville Oregon. 😊 And this past Saturday, I seen Gary that used to own the fire truck that you bought a few months ago. 😊 His daughter Amy is married to one of my nephews. 😊 Love the videos. 😊
yup, had a 1970 ford f350 with a holmes 480 dual line and a hi lyft sky jack wheel liftm best yarder i ever had, miss that truck
Awesome truck.
I love to see the old iron restored, when it's gone, it's gone....forever....
Very cool thanks for sharing
Sweet rig!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸
Nice to see it getting past on then sit doing nothing. Great story
Quite the story!
THATS I NICE TOW TRUCK LIKE YOU SAID DON"T SEE ANY AROUND ANYMORE .IT"S NEAT THAT KEN & HIS FAMILY RAN & STILLL RUN THE BUSINESS YOU MIGHT THINK ABOUT KEEPING THE NAME ON THE TRUCK THAT ADDS TO THE NOSTALGIA OF IT & THE WHOLE AREA IT SERVED
Always cool to get the story behind a vehicle like that.
That is a cool old wrecker, it looks in decent shape.
Ken definitely didn't look 70!
What an awesome story, glad that they kept the old girl working for so long.
Definitely an original truck with the original painting on the doors
Good looking truck.
EXCELLENT !!!!
Happy birthday belated one Ken. That tow truck is so cool can’t wait for new videos on it. Keep up the good work and stay safe out there.
omgosh what a find!!!!
Keep ‘em coming
Very cool! Can’t wait to see you and Casey go on recoveries together.
A 9370 would be a good addition to your working collection.
Nice truck.. thanks for the video
Onya Ken you're a champion, keeping a great truck like that, then making
sure it goes to a good home, the world needs more like you!!!!!!
Awesome addition to your collection, all the best to you and your loved ones
Clear coat that paint job the way it sits... and I love the hat!!!
Super cool truck, awesome story. Those are the best finds!!!
Sound’s just like our dog she know when I’m going to work or whether she can go
Awesome truck with a great story. The misspelling definitely ads to the character of a awesome truck. I can't wait to see more videos of it. Have a great day and stay safe.
Awesome story awesome find can't wait to see you get it back in use👍
I certainly hope you do more episodes of fixing this truck up! I want to see the progression! Such a cool rig!
Great story with a great truck. You did fantastic saving the truck, Ken took very good care of it.
Quick tune-up, maybe some new rubber on the rims, and you're all set. If it was me, I'd upgrade the winch cables to synthetic at some point too.
Very kool can't wait to see it restored there were a few where I grew up learned a lot how to operate one similar to that one from my uncle's friend very 👍🙂🐺🐾
The sign painter might have been indulging some herb !
🥺 🤣
I like your story telling. Great trucks. Will be watching more but hopefully less of my stories in future. You like the D series for work trucks, I have some D-150 200 500 but my "Tonka toys" I call them are an L-205 semi tractor, couple of R-185 Firetrucks, R-192 grain truck, and a parts tractor, RF-194 gravel dump, concrete mixer and a tow truck that was custom built to extricate concrete mixers. The tow truck boom extends to 42 foot reach and is capable of lifting the entire truck or tractor that I want to move from point a to point b. I also use it to move steel grain bins. I use that one average 4 times a week whereas the others a few times a year but I love to have them to be able to do stuff myself. Makes work fun.
Great Story Ken !❤️👍
Looking forward for seeing more of it.
Congratulations on acquiring a Great Truck and Meeting a Great Guy.
Another nice rig, Ben. Great story. That guy has a project with that boat in the yard with that OMC "Stringer" outdrive.
Great story
First time watcher and I’m excited to watch more thanks
Hi Ken, Your tow truck will have a good home with 406.
Coolest Tow truck I've ever seen.. in I've driven a few
I would watch every second of that truck being restored, I watch about 5 minutes of this video. Plz show the restoration’s
Had the mechanical wheel lift on my Holmes 500 back in the day. Made my boss a ton of money with that truck over 10 years or so.
That Peterbilt is stupid sweet. Great story and find on the tow truck. Ken seems like in great guy. Happy retirement Ken. It' will be nice seeing the tow truck working. Nice video. Edit: I failed to mention the Old Scout story. Great bit of history I've never heard before. Good stuff.
I always enjoy your videos and in my opinion you have an interesting collection with those style of trucks. I am looking forward to your next video since I never know what to expect
Another great find. I've seen people use linseed oil on paint like this one with good low budget results. A great cleaner that will clean and degrease anything without hurting paint can be found at the dollar store, for a dollar, is AWESOME. It could not have been named any better because it is an awesome cleaner. Not only around the shop and vehicles but in the house for grease on the stove and you can even spray it on grease spots on clothes and it's gone. Been using it for years and have bottles sitting around within reach everywhere. I usually put a windex sprayer head (the best ones made) on the bottles for the best results.
Miss my 1210 crew cab4x4 that was a tough truck
Ben when you are done with your servicing of this truck would you consider doing a video of all the things this rig can do! America has car shows to be able to see the cars from the past but I don't recall seeing or hearing about a show of service related vehicles and what they do. Thank you for your time and talent!
I wish I could find My late Fathers old Scout and get a hold of it.. He passed away in 77 and the step mom sold it... They lived in Mammoth Utah at the time..
Nice truck & cool story about it 👌🏽👍🏽🤘🏾🇬🇧🇬🇧
The city that I work for in the 80s had a 1600 C cab with 5sp two sp split road tractor that pulled a low boy trailer the engine was a big block bigger than the 345 great video keep up the good work God bless from GA
Great find!!! I want it
Many years ago a local used car dealer had a similar '72 or '73 like that but not four wheel drive, last time I remember seeing it a local salvage yard had it,on the doors it said Super Binder, another fellow from back home had a '68 1200 that he converted to 1 ton and built a wrecker bed on it but I don't think he ever got all the bugs out of it.
Watching from New Zealand. Good yarns
You need a Emeryville for the shows I drove one in 1974 with a 250 cummins that would lite the sky up at nite
AMAZING
Super cool
Just spotted the JH Diesel t-shirt, cool. I follow Justin's channel too.
Ken kick back and relax-n-enjoy a bit of everything. When you get a chance post pictures of wrecker that replaced the CornBinder.
Sweet rig. Are going to keep all the lettering on it? You keep it just as is.
Great find and story Ben!
Ben how about an old Emeryville for your work truck collection?
i would love that truck
Nice old tow rig it should end up being a good old work horse around the yard.
I love cabovers they don't ride bad 79 Pete and 79 freightshaker are my latest and hauling grain to D7G dozers on mainly gravel and dirt rows love them the 82 13 letter sh@t spreader got its front axle relocated against the drive in a head on with a drunk in a 72 caddy and junked it I've got it for parts looking for another but damn they're hard to find
I had two she beagles, sometimes they would get it in their heads that they wanted to go for a ride. There was no peace until they got a ride. They rode good so I really didn’t mind usually.
I think beer may have had something to do wth that mis spellng? Just sayn' Good fnd Ben! We are so fortunate here in Oregon that a workng truck for forty years is still solid and going BACK to work! Thanks Ben. Todd Konoske the retired trucker.
Lol.
That shouldn't have been much of a surprise to anyone who has known a old school sign painter. 🤣
They would normally fix it, though. All I can think is that it went unnoticed for so long, that Ken's brother just never bothered to have the guy fix it. 🤷♂️
Too many arm chair critics, Collect what you like ,Thumbs up
Agreed 💯
Noticed a big puff of blue smoke. Might consider replacing the 50 year old valve stem seals during your tune up.
Gotta swap out those ford hubcaps too