Truck Pictures

[Rockford]

Hank's Truck Pictures is long gone, I know, and sorely missed. Is there a good site that you go to for pictures of trucks working in the 70s and 80s?

I tend to search by make and model nowadays but I find I get mostly show trucks that are beautifully done, but not what I want, also a lot of useless garbage because the interwebs like to do that. I sometimes add "for sale" because you get some survivors on Truck Paper, Big Iron, and the other auction sites.

If I search "Class 8 trucks" you get a few but then millions of pick ups because you used the word "truck", it's so frustrating. 

Pinterest is like a pinball machine bouncing around from one thing to another, you can't follow a subject in it. 

Some of the collections on Flickr are useful, I know the Dutch Model Truck Club have decades of Overdrive magazine on Fotki, that's a great resource. 

Let's know if you have landed on a good source. 

[stitchdup]

older euro trucks mostly

https://public.fotki.com/boballoa/

[Biggu]

6 hours ago, Rockford said:

Hank's Truck Pictures is long gone, I know, and sorely missed. Is there a good site that you go to for pictures of trucks working in the 70s and 80s?

I tend to search by make and model nowadays but I find I get mostly show trucks that are beautifully done, but not what I want, also a lot of useless garbage because the interwebs like to do that. I sometimes add "for sale" because you get some survivors on Truck Paper, Big Iron, and the other auction sites.

If I search "Class 8 trucks" you get a few but then millions of pick ups because you used the word "truck", it's so frustrating. 

Pinterest is like a pinball machine bouncing around from one thing to another, you can't follow a subject in it. 

Some of the collections on Flickr are useful, I know the Dutch Model Truck Club have decades of Overdrive magazine on Fotki, that's a great resource. 

Let's know if you have landed on a good source. 

Thank you for asking this Steve, I feel your pain … Hank’s site was an absolute gold mine of working iron. I would hate to add up all the hours I spent there.  For me what I do at the moment , until something good comes along, is snag any pic I think may be of some use down the road, which I’m sure you and others do as well . And as gorgeous as some of those custom rigs are, they are not the dusty, greasy everyday well used units. And your assessment of Pintrest is right on, I really struggle with that site, click on one pic and I go down some hole I have no idea where or why. Maybe this thread will be a go to place for guys to make good suggestions we can keep coming back to as a photo reference. 
Jeff

[stitchdup]

flickr is a decent source. theres groups for most brands

[Brian Austin]

Is there anything left of Hank's site at archive.org?

[ranma]

On 9/1/2024 at 3:32 AM, Rockford said:

If I search "Class 8 trucks"

instead search with Class 8 Semi's. you will get less pickups in that search..