Vintage Diesels

The Gray Marine 6-71 in the Higgins Boat When we talk about a great or historic engine, sometimes we need to talk more about what […]

MACK-LANOVA ED & END DIESELS Some companies often step ahead of their competition. At times, that’s a step too far and requires two steps back, […]

The Nissan SD and a 1968 Chrysler New Yorker The 1973 oil embargo scared Uncle Sam right out of his red-and-white striped pants. With a […]

When a country goes to war, it’s army needs more than bombers, tanks, cannons, rifles and ammunition. Those are part of what makes the tip […]

1927 CUMMINS MODEL P When 1927 rolled in, the Cummins Engine Company was in it’s eighth year of operation. Founding engineer Clessie Cummins had started […]

PINT-SIZED POWERHOUSE THE FARYMANN LDS While small diesels are relatively common in North America today, many decades ago they were found mostly in Europe. Such was […]

A 1955 Caterpillar-Powered Lincoln Welder If you hear the word “Caterpillar,” your first thought is probably a bulldozer. However, you might be surprised to know Cat […]

Euclid TC-12 Dozer Companies take a big risk when they introduce something radically different than the norm. When the historical smoke clears, which might be […]

A 1943 Military Generator With 69 hours Barn finds are the big thing these days and rare muscle cars or exotics usually get the hoopla. […]

1965 Farmall 504 What International Harvester called the “New World of Power” launched them into their first line of six-cylinder tractors in 1958. These were […]

RAMSOM OLDS, THE HILL DIESEL ENGINE COMPANY & THE HILL MODEL R Most of you know the Oldmobile name. And since you are a diesel […]

A Tale of Two D2s In the early days of motorized farming, crawler tractors had a big part to play in some parts of the […]

A Cummins-Powered Ford High-Boy—Built on a High School Budget “I paid for everything and did almost all the work, with some guidance from my dad.” […]

A 1958 Ford F-100 with a 5.9L CR Cummins and Allison Transmission Rat Rods are something extremely popular in the hot rod market these days […]

Diesel Muscle It’s not often than you run across a diesel-powered vehicle that’s unlike any other, yet that’s exactly the case with Weaver Customs’ ’70 […]

Classic Blue Rig What do you get when you combine a ’73 F-250 with an early Super Duty? How about a one-of-a-kind Highboy with modern […]

Purple Performance Perfection The vehicle of choice for most Diesel World readers is a pickup with a really powerful diesel engine. And that was initially […]

The Race-Ready Rust Bucket He was asking $350, but I talked him down to $200,” laughs Scott Birdsall, owner of Chuckles Garage, when asked about […]

Almost from the beginning of the farm tractor, farmers and engineers fooled around with coupling two tractors together to put more power to the ground. […]

By the time 1985 rolled around, the agricultural side of Allis-Chalmers was 71 years old and the company was drowning in debt in the face […]