Cool old Buick Roadmaster getting it done.

[NIsaacs]

Looks like about a '51, that was a good year for me probably a straight 8. Note the canvas water bag.

 

[Regcabguy]

Desert water bags. They were everywhere back then. I guess antifreeze wasn't invented yet?
Coming up I-8 out of the desert there are signs advising motorists to shut off their A/C and there are water stations on the side for emergencies.

 

[Blu-meanie]

Everybody carried them, cooling systems didn't have recovery tanks and it was a long road between stops. If you boke down in the desert, that may be the only water you have to drink, even if it tasted awful.

 

[GAmes]

Desert water bags. They were everywhere back then. I guess antifreeze wasn't invented yet?
Coming up I-8 out of the desert there are signs advising motorists to shut off their A/C and there are water stations on the side for emergencies.

Cabbage Hill on I84 in Oregon has water barrels stationed on it as well. I've never seen anyone stopped at one though. I think the Cajon Pass is more brutel.

 

[Cummins12V98]

Never thought much of the Cajon Pass. Maybe dead of summer.

 

[NIsaacs]

Never thought much of the Cajon Pass. Maybe dead of summer.

Thats because you have never towed the sucker with a 1951 Buick w/powerglide. Can you imagine the down hill speed in first with a two speed slush box I bet he had a Kelsey-Hays brake controller....

 

[Cummins12V98]

Thats because you have never towed the sucker with a 1951 Buick w/powerglide. Can you imagine the down hill speed in first with a two speed slush box I bet he had a Kelsey-Hays brake controller....

TRUE!!!!!

 

[crispyboy]

Cool picture!
My grandfather had a Kelsey-Hays brake controller in his 1968 Dodge Monaco station wagon and 24' travel trailer with which he and grandma toured the US after he retired. I remember the brake controller being tapped directly to the brake master cylinder.

 

[NIsaacs]

Cool picture!
My grandfather had a Kelsey-Hays brake controller in his 1968 Dodge Monaco station wagon and 24' travel trailer with which he and grandma toured the US after he retired. I remember the brake controller being tapped directly to the brake master cylinder.

 

[crispyboy]

Here is a picture of what was in my grandpa's car. I recall the lever would move when the brake pedal was depressed. There was a large diameter worm clamp to attach it to the bottom of the steering column.

 

[Blu-meanie]

Here is a picture of what was in my grandpa's car. I recall the lever would move when the brake pedal was depressed. There was a large diameter worm clamp to attach it to the bottom of the steering column.


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Yep, I had one. Took it off my FIL's Ford truck when we took over his 18' trailer. Worked great.

 

[slowmover]

Worked better than anything since. Trolley brake.

Knowledge of how to use it to best effect was the thing.

 

[slowmover]

Wonder if hitch was of slimp wheel type. There’s shadow back there (and he’s sitting mighty level), so that’d be my guess if asked.

 

[Matt42]

Wonder if hitch was of slimp wheel type. There’s shadow back there (and he’s sitting mighty level), so that’d be my guess if asked.

I used to see these occasionally when I was traveling with my parents in the late Fifties and early Sixties. Usually as my father was inventing colorful new words as we slowly passed them on an upgrade.
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[slowmover]

 

[brucejohnson]

I used to see these occasionally when I was traveling with my parents in the late Fifties and early Sixties. Usually as my father was inventing colorful new words as we slowly passed them on an upgrade.
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Oh them memories...Visions of >>>The Long, Long Trailer<<< popped into view...

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[crispyboy]

My wife and I watch that movie each springtime to get us primed for camping season.