Ford Marmon-Herrington V8 1.5 Ton GS

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Richard Farrant
That one was also a Snogo originally. The Holmes jib was from another vehicle. I carried out an inspection of this truck for a forum member late last year.

Here are some of Richard's pictures:



The owner at that time, Keith King, found a derelict SnoGo 20 or so years ago (there's a small pic in Wheels & Tracks magazine). It had a wooden GS body sitting on the rear half of the chassis where the snow blower gear once sat (probably an abandoned restoration?). Keith and Bart Vanderveen knew each other well, and the picture of the Canadian 3 ton Ford 098T with Holmes wrecker set was the only one Bart could come up with. So Keith restored it with a Holmes jib, losely based on the picture in Vanderveen's book:



The crawler gear Gordon described was removed, Keith told me the Ford could to 50-60 mph in this configuration:




The plan was to fit this truck with a genuine GS body off a Ford 1.5-ton truck:



Hanno