The most sought after big highway trucks in my mind were always Marmons. They were so rare that some fools would risk taking a picture of one while driving. Hence my only Marmon tilt cab photo.
The conventionals were always more impressive with massive hoods and with a brick like obliviousness to aerodynamics. However as these show, there was some acknowledgement to rounded corners in later years.
Sadly these Texas size, Texas-built trucks are no longer manufactured, but there are still a few on the road.
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Citgo Marmon, Tampa, Florida, April 1998. A rare day cab, fleet truck.
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East Penn Trucking Co of Lehighton, Pennsylvania ran a fleet of Marmons. I like the quarter windows in the sleeper of this white painted job in Bradenton, Florida, April 1994.
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Another East Penn Marmon in Bradenton, April 1994. A plain jane rig, but with rounded fenders.
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At a converging speed of 120 miles per hour , a tilt cab Marmon, westbound between Fredericton and Moncton, NB, September 1975.
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