Posted by Todd Wilson on Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 3:11PM :
In Reply to: Re: OT.............1947 REO posted by Randy Baker on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 4:22PM :
Those trucks are really a lot bigger and heavier in person then in the pictures. The old man that owned the museum was a successful business man in this area for a long time. I think the old man died and the museum closed a few years ago. They had a web site and its gone now and the REO's are gone also. I think the kids cashed in and sold it all. They even had an antique machine shop that was all belt driven. You turned the motor on and it spun pulleys and belts up on the ceiling and then you used a clutch to turn on which machine you wanted. Very neat place to visit. Had a shop area where they were doing restorations all the time on his collection. They said all the vehicles in the museum could be driven any time. They fired up a few of them for us to prove it.
Todd