Looks like DIAMOND REO is tryin for a come back
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02-26-2009, 11:42 AM
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Location: Concordville PA
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Looks like DIAMOND REO is tryin for a come back
www.t-linetrucks.com
They are using a new name T-Line trucks. My old man had a 1973 Reo and it was a good truck. It was a tri/axle Dump. He ran it up to about 1990. I cant really see them making it. Just my 2cents.
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02-26-2009, 02:18 PM
Looks like they are using International Cabs now, instead of Marmon.
Diamond Reo and Pacific, both used to build some screaming heavy-duty trucks. Drove a Pacific once (based on an Auto-car cab), that had a V-12 Cat with 975 HHP at the output, and a Cat 12 speed electric shift tranny. That sucker was a ripping truck in the mountains. Was still grabbing gears, when the old 8V-77 Detroits were gasping for horsepower. The Diamond Reo the company had at Rock Springs was a screaming memie. It had an 875 hhp Allison Aircraft motor in it with a 5x4 main tranny and a Browning 2 speed behind that! It could pull one of the big Frac-Master sand bins through the mountains at a steady 50 mph, all day long. Of course...those of us who drove it the most, are paying the price now. Shoulda wore ear plugs.
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