Fresh off the line from Exton, Pennsylvania, circa 1968 - 1972.
Autocar (USA) started by building motorised tricycles and cars from 1897, turning to general trucks from 1907 and later to special purpose heavy-duty trucks. Autocar was bought by White in 1953.
Saint Matthews Road 1984
Saint Matthews Road 1986
Photographed in Pennsylvania, 1990
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Photograph taken March 10, 2001 at Five Points, Saylors Mill Road, Snowdenville, Pennsylvania. |
Photographed taken in Auburn, California, 1996.
Honeybrook, Pennsylvania, 1990.
Autocar Constructor, in operation at Honeybrook, Pennsylvania, by Exton Carriers Inc., 1990.
Received June 14, 2001.
Sir, I surfed your page on Autocar trucks. I now live 21 years in the Arkansas Ozarks, but was born and raised in Media. We would drive by the Autocar plant in Exton on the way to Honeybrook and Epherta to visit all kinds of family, and I would drool at all of the new Autocars ready to be shipped. Dad had a business on Baltimore Pike in Concordville, and they used to go by the place piggybacked by the hundreds. Rarely see one in these hills, but once in a while one will pop up out of nowhere. They had a sound all of their own, eventhough they were Cummins powered like the competition!
Thanks again for making the old photos available.
Steve Leisey,
Cotter Arkansas
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June 19, 2001. Boltz, Pennsylvania |
Photograph taken July 04, 2001 along Pennsylvania Route 61on the eastside of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, Coal Township, Northumberland County, U.S.A.
Wednesday 12/05/01
I visited the Autocar factory in Exton while attending high school in 1976. I
was invited by the Chief Engineer, Louis Novoa.
I studied engineering and later worked for Jim Stec of Engineering records.
It was very nice to see the pictures on your website.
Joe Whitman
DiamondTTruck@aol.com
Lebanon, PA
Photographed December 22, 2001, just west
of Pine Groove, on Pennsylvania Route 443,
on the Lebanon / Schuylkill County Line.
Photographed during a coffee break in front
of the Wawa at the intersection of PA Route 113 and Township Roads.
Summer 2002.
James E. Frizzell
Post Office Box 595
Kimberton, Pennsylvania 19442
e-mail: jimmy@jim-frizzell.com
date posted: October 10, 2000.
last revised:
April 22, 2008
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