Vintage 1942 Chevy 1935 REX MOTO MIXER Rare concrete Truck Restoration

Here is 1935 Rex O Mixer on 1942 Chevy truck that people turn into "rat rods". This was filmed over 3 years.
This truck had a dump bed on it the at some point the mixer was installed, was told
It was used on Friday Harbor Island in Washington state then moved to Wenatchee in
the 1960s were it sat for 40 years. The county deemed it an "Eye sore" and was slated for scrap, but we managed to save this one. So if you wonder were all the old truck/cars went ask your county commissioners!!! If you have any info on this truck please post.

[@RustyRescues]

Thank you for rescuing this from the scrapper, well done!

[@stantilton3339]

It is terrifying and shameful what's happened to this country in the name of progress. Thank you for saving this old workhorse. It is a labor of love to be sure. She is a beauty, enjoy her.

[@brucebonkowski3037]

I fully agree we now become disposal on everything I don't follow the mold and glad you and they don't

[@JimThomasOutdoors]

I'm raising a mug of beer to the fellas that pulled off this restoration. Simply a gargantuan undertaking and an AMAZING outcome ! CHEERS to Y'all for all your hard work, skill and determination ! Warms my hart to see such a utilitarian piece of the past resurrected !

[@rajgautamrajgautam8407]

Jim Thomas w

[@Vafees1]

HAHAHA never seen a concrete truck restored.............GOOD JOB MY FRIEND

[@arguswil]

I currently run a concrete mixer. I WOULD DRIVE THIS EVERY DAY . This is amazing !

[@bobordewald1367]

I love those old big trucks! to think that fairly small L6 could do the job looking back from now where huge diesels are the norm. thanks for sharing!

[@jacemusgrove3073]

How amazing the watch it come back to life! Thanks guys!

[@frap6790]

That's got to be the best restoration video I've seen, went right to my favorites! Love old HD trucks....

[@sanjose6018]

Beautiful.. lots of hard work... BEAUTIFUL job.. OLD trucks are awesome

[@mikeizzano172]

Good show! I drove for 20 yrs, we had antiques in our bone yard,always wanted to redo an old one, ha.guys that drove can appreciate your efforts.

[@duanescarborough8297]

Thanks for sharing that. I remember those from back when I was a kid.

[@charles.stewart4422]

Happy that you saved it thanks !

[@dalesakawsky7309]

Beautiful old TRUCK . I pity the guy that had to Jackhammer the drum out . LOL.

[@lotuslotus718]

Amazing truck that you can use to work even today. Excellent job.

[@dougtheviking6503]

Nice guys ! Rare indeed

[@oldamericaniron5767]

Absolutely beautiful, I believe a person should restore to their liking and forget the comments. I noticed the vintage drill press and lathe along the wall. Keep up the good work.

[@imdeplorable2241]

Now, THERE'S a "working girl." Thanks for saving her. You don't see them at car or truck shows. Thanks for sharing.

[@12121149]

Fantastic job,guys,drove a mixer for many years,back when.

[@chrspappas3612]

"Beautifully Done"...

[@bobbob-fg5wy]

Awesome video. Thanks for saving the old truck.

[@not_so_tactical_guy4862]

wow that truck looks sweet

[@plumbingstuffinoregon2471]

That's one thick stack'o'springs in the rear!

[@workingmanpatriot8760]

Just when we think we've seen it all! Awesome job

[@clarklloyd4958]

Three thumbs up, how fabulous for sure.

[@coolhandluke5557]

Makes no diff to me if you painted the wheels and chassis or not , just happy to see it saved and alive again !

[@edwu8253]

Amazing job👍

[@jeffleblanc8850]

This is one awesome truck one of the nicest I’ve seen it’s the first old cement mixer

[@erikluyten2070]

that is the coolest and it still works

[@highwatercircutrider]

Nice video! Takes me back to my youth. I remember pouring driveways with my dad and "barn builder" grandfather. they would schedule those little 31/2 yarder's one after the next (15-20 minutes apart). All hand finished on your knees all day long! Old time companies like "Vesper" in Avoca, Michigan, "Cook block" in Yale ,Michigan and "Tait Block" in Port Huron, Michigan. In those days a "Contract" was a handshake and often the driver would help out floating with a "Bull Float" if you got a bit behind. I can't believe I stayed in construction 40 odd years. It is much more enjoyable to watch others work from my chair on the internet! Gary

[@lewiemcneely9143]

+highwatercircutrider I drove and always helped if someone else ran the truck. Riding all day gets old fast and a little time with a wheelborrow or a float limbered you up BUT it's a lot easier where you said you are now. The mustard cutting is over with.

[@highwatercircutrider]

Now I see why the drivers were so ready to help. Later when I was contracting on my own, I got into the habit of tipping them enough to buy their lunch. Soon, I was getting my concrete ahead of the other builders in the days orders. I reasoned that the drivers would pull my ticket first when they spotted it on the order posting boards, (made my days go a little faster haha). Anyway, I was always courteous to the drivers (even when they clearly were messing up and inexperienced). Makes a hard tedious job better for everyone!

[@lewiemcneely9143]

The easiest part of concrete was driving the truck and it was hard as a rock. I never got tipped much but knew all the finishers and builders and it didn't matter. I always got to aggravate somebody and have a fine time out of a backbreaking job. Even the amigos. I'd spray the hose on them and me too on a hot day pouring sidewalks and curbs and before you know it they were your buddies. Never fails unless it was a chrome-plated jerk to start with. Then I'd just let them do it their way. Their option. I got the chance to run regulars, fronts and conveyors. Just something about hauling concrete that everything else can't touch.

[@highwatercircutrider]

I never hauled concrete other than in the bucket of my loader backhoe or an occasional rented concrete buggy. I got playfully sprayed by the drivers many times (especially when they needed to get my attention for a moment). I did drag a few concrete or as we called them "cement" trucks out of the mud. One time it took my backhoe pulling with the hoe extended to my JD 350 dozer hooked to the truck to get her out. I worried about pulling the truck in half (a stout 12 yard tri-axle), fully loaded yet and sunk down to the axles. Gary (the Mennonite" in Michigan).

[@lewiemcneely9143]

An extended hoe has a LOT of pull if you can get it tied off solid. Just like a dozer winch with the track behind a tree. I drove them from a 7 yd chain drive to a 10 1/2 yd 5 axle cheater with bridge master) , front discharge and conveyors but I've been at it all my life since in my 20's and I'm 65 now so I ought to know something. It gets very interesting especially when the driver don't know when to stop and sinks it. Then you got "X" amount of time to do something enough of a whole load so you can get the blasted truck out. I've also operated equipment in between trucking jags so I know how you feel when this happens. Gets interesting. Lew the hillbilly in NC.

[@dumpthangtruck]

That's a huge undertaking. You did an amazing job. So cool. Now just find some of the old timers that use to run this truck and show it to them!!!!!!!

[@DesertDigger1]

Its funny @ 10:28 a newer mixer went by on the interstate.Good job.

[@bogiewheelman71]

your back in business !

[@durangotrkrt]

Truck looks great!

[@ElderlyIron]

Fabulous!

[@gracerandy2303]

Lewie McNeely aa

[@joeschlotthauer840]

I see a 68 Buick Riviera an International Harvester and a white cab over engine in the background. Yahooo.

[@radityadewangga]

AMAZING

[@OClop]

Satisfying video great job.

[@bad6474]

I think this is awesomeness thing I've ever seen

[@KGSHEAMASONRY]

you guys did an awesome job!!!

[@arguswil]

Beautiful!

[@kevsta67]

amazing!

[@iamrichrocker]

nice editing..and alot of hard work...good job...that grill is awesome btw..

[@terrycannon570]

YES ! Nuff Said !

[@lewiemcneely9143]

SWEET setup! I can remember the old Rex mixers but they were on B-model Macks. I drove an old IH with a Rex chain drive tub but it was hydraulic. Interesting ride but would go through about anything. Old IH V-8 diesel and a 5x4 tranny. Tough as woodpecker lips.

[@DannyWalker1949]

I used to work for a company that would work and clean out these drums when the truck would quit and we always had to Go In! We used Jack Hammer's and they would sometimes use somekind of explosives as well if the drum was Really setup....sure glad those days are over for me... ; )

[@lioneljosecastillo]

and a modern concrete truck just so happens to pass by at 10:27 :)

[@Whipple1]

Lionel Jimenez Was that cool or what? Ironic!

[@vonkathvonkath8043]

Lionel Jimenez perros

[@time1800]

Man I would find a reason to go to the County Court House 4 times a month!

[@jorgedelcid6178]

exelente mucha pasion por el trabajo felicidades

[@mikeskidmore6754]

That's a lot of work there used to be a Concrete plant near Paw Paw MI that had a bunch of cement trucks from that Vintage .. sitting in the grass.. I bought a 1968 FWD 6 wheel drive from them restored it and have ran it for 20,000 hours spreading lime with it..

[@svatoplukhavrys9715]

Pěkná práce,fajn video.

[@farmfreshcustoms2227]

thanks for saving it ...good karma for yeh. any one who likes this vid thums up it

[@robertwalton7307]

Wicked nice job! Hope the DIVCO in the corner is next!

[@jimsonbrown9768]

Have a 51 Chevy log truck with Thornton tandem drive. 235 six with a 4 speed, 2 speed transfer, high low in the rears. 16 speeds and all of them slow.

[@mjwdrones4all41]

have got to drive it ? Slow and Slower my guess but beets feeding horses... !!

[@josephducker4169]

Jimson brown slow cause of low power and heavy concrete

[@user-pe1rq1kj6s]

Молодцы!

[@boobayloo]

beautiful

[@OldCarAlley]

What a cool old truck. You went to the bother of painting everything up nice, except for the chassis and wheels... why not spend the extra time to paint that up too??? It still looks awesome tho! Never have seen a vintage cement mixer truck saved, thank you for saving it! I liked it.

[@thecurtray]

my home was built in 1946. wonder if this mixer had anything to do with it.lol. great project for only a few good men

[@bobordewald1367]

Curt Ray .......with a bucket of money and a huge Shop!

[@pavlistarvmterramater3579]

Beaultiful Art Deco style truck!! Here in Brazil, this model is called Chevrolet tigre - Tiger. Bye!!!

[@MrWolfSnack]

Very very very very rarely does postwar construction equipment survive with all original components and machinery. Also I really hope you wore a mask when removing the concrete from the drum. Early concrete was made with asbestos to help bind it together better so it would not crack from expansion and contraction.

[@leewatkins1610]

this is one rare truck.ive been looking for one 190 years.i bought a 4 yarder.,no truck

[@jerrycraig6522]

That's awesome, only one way to get set concrete out

[@mog5858]

nice work keep it up

[@28076130513B]

"Concrete culture" at it´s best - cool...

[@leyland9999]

Great job done! I bet there is not a single one in the world in this condition anymore, if at all! I hope you do the chassis and original rims (not all are of the same type I noticed, maybe the reason you didn’t paint them?) in due course. On the other hand, it has its charmes the way it is right now. Nothing wrong with a truck that shows it has been well used and maybe abused during its last days of active service. It is a well balanced mix the condition it is in right now. Greetings from Holland, Willem. Bye!

[@426superbee4]

Man what a lot of work. One must have a goal and love to do something with that much work! You will never get the money for all the time and money into it. BUT HEY VERY NICE JOB Now lets pour some cement

[@arguswil]

The days before Super and Air added to concrete lol !

[@nocturnalpete1]

great to see be nice with the chasiss and wheels painted to match the gaurds light blue but

[@plumbingstuffinoregon2471]

"Country Clean Up Program" What a joke! Life is more interesting when you've got stuff to look at and enjoy, even if it is old and rusty.

[@bigal1568]

Can you deliver 3 yards of ready mic concrete please. Good job Buddy>

[@josephducker4169]

Big Al imagine showing up to the job site with that old girl.nice

[@christastic100]

why not paint the wheels and chassis?

[@mjwdrones4all41]

+christastic100 did not have time.

[@chrisparlow4450]

Their all scrum bags ! They should worry about what counts and doing their jobs and keeping their hands off of are equipment you guys did a hell of a job Iv not seen any of these in years. Nice job men !

[@lucahienz3707]

My first cement truck.

[@mjwdrones4all41]

So how many years Young are you ? Or u just joking....

[@jerrycraig6522]

cement is a fine grey powder, you idiot it's a CONCRETE truck

[@alansmlth7989]

Finish out the wheels.

[@TheCramunhao666]

muito bom....

[@fenandocastanonmanrriquez591]

De vuelta otra vez .

[@powderriver2424]

Yes the clean up regime and WA with all the transplants from elsewhere and super libs even Eastern WA can't escape. When I was a child my family would visit through Eastern WA and I remember all the old Ag equipment on the edge of fields especially the Steam traction engines once used to harvest and thresh etc. that used to be my playground when we stopped.

[@jw4620]

I like it. Now a little time on the frame rails in back, please, and some aluminum spray on the wheels?

[@vclubamp]

What kind of engine is that driving the mixer on the back? Awesome project, btw, thanks for showing us the video!

[@GHarris218]

jim smith i

[@farmalmta]

It sounds like a Continental or Hercules inline 4 cylinder flathead. Both were common powerplants for accessory drives.

[@brucebonkowski3037]

looks great why weren't the rims painted

[@rustyjeep2469]

Very cool to see one of these restored back to stock. Have these same people restored any other trucks like this? The man in the video and footage of the shop, etc look familiar; I wonder if they did a '35 Chevy bus I saw at a show last year ...

[@AMCguy]

to be honest I would take the cement mixer parts off and build a custom flat bed

[@lawncuttingplusdelta]

Is that blue a color code or just random? It's perf blue for old school. I don't get why people are negative about it? U did the gol dang work and people should appreciate that..... What have they done. U guys did an awesome " practical " job ....

[@elcalentonx]

👍👍👍

[@oldamericaniron5767]

I was also thinking what it would be like going down a big hill with a stop sign at the bottom with those hydraulic brakes.

[@sparky167]

Looks like Naches Washington,............

[@RedComet1701]

As a mixer driver, i can really appreciate the effort put into this. However, i gotta ask. Why put all that money into it and not do wheels and tires? Were the added after?

[@flick22601]

And why not clean and paint the frame, running gear and firewall?

[@bobordewald1367]

flick22601 if he plans on working it there would be no point. I hope he does!

[@olanlevan8470]

Maybe an off-white tan that would be nice!

[@mikebreedlove6663]

Yeah I agree but why didn't you paint the chassis and the axles and the wheels

[@leewatkins1610]

a rarely seen step in the mechanical evolution toward the 11 yarders of today.id say this is 5 yards

[@bm547056]

I have a 1941 Ford with Thornton Tandem axles and Spoke steel rims. You have one spoke steel rim i can see. I would wager this to be a Thornton tandem as well.

[@bm547056]

Below is link to 1946 Chevy with Thornton Tandems www.oldchevytrucks.com/blog/index.php/2013/07/1946-chevrolet-2-ton-with-thornton-drive-2/

[@treinadorsam7658]

esse caminhão trabalha

[@miloauker8706]

Does the truck have the Thorton rear drive system? Great truck!

[@mjwdrones4all41]

yes just did not film it.

[@michaeltarver170]

Id sport that shit on the job ... I haul concrete and that is effing awesome ...

[@Mercmad]

@10.30 I see it's younger brother go past....

[@leewatkins1610]

notice the separate engine to run the drum

[@aliciolaya4405]

Bien pero les falta pintar los rines eso detalle afea el trabajo

[@dearbornerik]

should have a magnaflow on it

[@olanlevan8470]

Only reason we see these today is cause back in the day they were meant to last!

[@StayTrueMinistry]

Awesome!! I'm working on my 1942 chevy dump truck.. can see it on my channel. What engine do you have ? I have a 216 c.i ..could use a 235, or better yet a cummins!! Ya gotta luv these old trucks!

[@alanbrown6210]

and at 10:28 a modern mixer goes past

[@ralphsmith4432]

What kinda for motor is in it