An old-line heavy truck series is back. "T-Line" trucks, the most recent iteration of vehicles rooted in Diamond T and Reo trucks dating to the early 20th century, include three models offered by ...

Trucker-photographer Don Christner is chronicling the past and present of rigs he found parked in the former small fleet yard of Junior Elmore in Cheyenne, Wyo. The journey began two weeks back in the ...

An alternate title for this post might be: The corn-fed kid in Nebraska’s first run with a two-cycle V8 Detroit Diesel — in a 1974 Ford Louisville, no less. It was 1982. The Louisville featured an ...

C.A. Tilt built his first car in 1905, and the name he used was Diamond T, the same as his father’s shoemaking business. The diamond indicated quality, and “T” was for his last name. Tilt made cars ...

Many truck OEMs got their start in the early 1900s, but few made it past the Great Depression and WWII. This list compiles those that made it, and their decent into obscurity. Some on this list sailed ...

Voice: David Price, Grand Blanc In 1975, Diamond Reo Trucks in Lansing, where I worked along with 2,200 others, went bankrupt. We employees lost everything -- pensions, insurance etc. Approximately ...

If you think the inclusion of a classic Diamond-T truck within the confines of a Peterbilt dealership’s annual calendar is surprising, think again, for not only did the dealership in question – Sioux ...

Why would the interior of a 1942 REO one and-a-half ton dump truck, last week's Guess the Vehicle, have cotter key-like pins? The keys were used to count loads, wrote Tom Crawford in an e-mail.

Do you ever get sick and tired of the same old full-size truck? It makes the roads a little more humdrum if you ask me. But back in the 1940s, the Wild West approach to the automotive landscape was ...

Me & My Car: Willys-Knight partnership beneficial for early auto industry Me & My Car: 60 mph was fast when 1912 Hudson was new Me & My Car: 1939 Lincoln Zephyr (almost) perfectly restored Me & My Car ...

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