Kind of a silly question and I'm pretty embarrassed to ask but... What jack originally came with the trucks to lift and change a tire on the side of the road? Anybody know or have a picture? Thanks, Andy
Back in the day, the drivers of these trucks were MUCH more rugged. The driver, upon realizing he had a flat, would pull to the side of the (usually dirt) road. He'd hop out of the truck to survey the situation, with a cigarette in the corner of his mouth. Upon tossing the spare from the bed to the ground in front of the offending flat tire, he would loosen the lug nuts (by hand), tossing them into the hub cap (which he had pried off with his fingers) for safekeeping. He would then lift the vehicle with one hand, and in one swift motion pull the flat off, toss it aside, and stuff the spare onto the lugs with the other hand. He would lower the truck back to the ground smoothly (so as not to bugger the threads of the wheel studs) re-tighten lug nuts (again, by hand), and down the road he'd go, usually to the little restaurant in town for a breakfast of bacon and eggs. All of this would be accomplished without getting his white T-shirt dirty, OR damaging the pack of smokes he had rolled into the sleeve of said T-shirt. Photographic evidence is very difficult to find.
The old truck parts place in ....?Kansas? used to have photographs of an entire original tool kit, for some reason IIRC it included a hammer . I think it was a mechanical screw typ bottle jack, the last time I remember changing a flat on one of these was in 1968 in New Hampshire.... .
