Getting closer !

[spanky]

I've been putting this GMC COE, Holmes Heavy Duty model W35 together for a few years. I've made a lot of progress lately. Just need to install the rear fenders, on the service body, and we'll be ready for this Summer's Cruise Ins.

[TowZone]

Warren Roosevelt would certainly have loved to have seen your GMC W35 completed as he loved his 1948 Chevrolet Holmes 515E Wrecker which resides in the Towing Museum.

 

[GRUMPS The Towman]

Gorgeous!!!

[rreschran]

Hey Spanky ... any history on the truck? A former company? City & state, plus how did you acquire it? Let us know please. Thanks.      R.

[JGTOW]

Sweet, Love it

[mooresbp]

Awesome!

[spanky]

Thanks !

[spanky]

This Wrecker was purchased new by Boyett Chevrolet Inc., of Corcoran, California. It was sold in the late 70s to, Norris and Son Auto Repair, and Towing, of Hanford, California. Norris owned it until the early 2000s. A Wrecker Service in Tulare purchased it from them, with the intentions of restoring it. I purchased it from them about 5 years ago, and had it hauled here to North Carolina.

[GRUMPS The Towman]

She sure is beautiful. It is very cool that you know her history too. 👍

Hey Mr. Resch, Is this truck from your neck of the woods?

[rreschran]

Good Morning Mr. Grumps. No ... I'm some 300-miles south. Quite honestly, in all my years, I've only seen one bubble nose (out here) and that was a small Mom n' Pop company in a little beach community in Encinitas California. Sixty-something year's later, their tow facility is still a tow yard to this day operated by RoadOne. For them to keep the property is the grace of grandfather clause saying that as long as it remains a tow yard ... it can stay amounst the other bazillion-dollar beach properties.      R.

Edited July 25, 2020 by rreschran

[spanky]

[KY Nick]

Looking good there.  

[Turbo4whl]

On 11/14/2020 at 6:01 AM, KY Nick said:

Looking good there.  

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