1957 Autocar Truck First Drive in 16 Years!!! Is it road worthy?? 

Bonus points to whoever spots my buddy Billy the buck in the video!

It's old, slow, noisy, smelly and looks rough as hell. It's absolutely gorgeous and would love to own it.

She is one of the most gorgeous machines I've ever seen. I absolutely love old hardware.

Those old N/A Cummins have such a distinct, beautiful tone when you lean into a load.

I guess even Spielberg would give you 5 stars for this one... IT'S ALIVE..... the effort you put in to make these vids is awesome... great work... superb result Matt.

You need a 40s era dozer to go on the low boy, what a sight that would be!

Maximum respect to the guys that used to drive these things for a living. My grandfather among them. Men with arms and legs like zeuss but deaf as a post. I tip my hat gentlemen.

So glad to see that old girl moving again can't wait to see her hooked up to the lowboy and getting back to work

Man that's cool as hell. The possibilities are endless with this truck! I have a 1940 Cummings that is mounted on a trailer, I use it to run a pump in a creek to water about 40 acres. I keep the filters cleaned oil full and it fires every time! When I open her up the folks 10 miles away can hear her!

Diesel Creek- I worked for a small truck line in Memphis, Tennessee in the mid-seventies and a huge scrap yard had a brand new Autocar with a 3408 Cat engine in it. To a young mechanic it was a real thing of beauty! I had straight pipes and sounded awesome!

My dad drove autocars as a truck driver hauling steel .when I was a boy, I will never forget the purr of the engine, enjoy it.👍👌😇

Considering that it's been standing around for the last 15 years it's in better condition than than "bush wacker" you bought LOL

Everybody knows that batteries enjoy “a little tappy tap tap”......don’t listen to the others!

Vice Grips on the battery terminal. That’s “factree.”

Glad you're having fun with the old girl. Can't wait to see her shiny and road worthy again. All the best from down under.

Oh that sound bought back a memory or two, had driven a 180 Cummins in an A series ERF when I first started driving articulated lorries back in the day .

that truck is actually holding air pressure? that's kinda amazing.

it's been a pleasure so far watching these videos. it sure brings back memories of driving these on my first real truck driving job. we had two old Autocars and two old Mack's. i can't believe you have 1 dislike on this video.. just be a smart car driver or my brother

There used to be alot of these workhorses in the back of my family's home as there used to be an industrial workshop that was abandoned (unknown reason) I would play around there as a kid and my parents would scold me alot! This video brought a load of nostalgia that I could even smell the all familar oil and tires! Good times! Awesome video!

Hey Matt, good video, I'm proud of you. Life is tough and we all work hard but every now and then, we get one of those rare moments where we feel like we're winning. You driving your 1957 Autocar tractor, on the road you built, on your own property... buddy you were winning that day! 👍🏻👊🏻

Such a sight!! Definitely made my morning!

When you drove up the gravel drive with the camera on the ground and horn blaring, I suddenly had a flashback to Spielberg's first film, "Duel". 😊 Just love seeing this old iron get used again. BTW if you can't find a cab, maybe at least some doors and you won't have to do so much patchwork.

Omg I’ve been waiting for this

Thumbs up for checking the oil. Never hurts, and only takes a second.

What a awesome truck it happens to be 1 year newer then me rock on Matt

Cool as hell. Amazing that it hasn’t moved in 15+ years. Seems that old technology pretty much never lets you down. Good luck in the future Matt with your planned restoration. I’ll be looking forward to it.

Damn that’s one badass truck. The old auto cars are absolutely beautiful

Takes me back in the day, areal beauty. Vice grip clamps keep things workin like the should. Great job Matt !!

This truck is what brought me to this channel. Keep up the good work!

built and runs like a tank!

I like that old thing :) Glad you can drive it (some what)!

Your farm is lovely, your technical expertise is super, but the best thing about your video is your sense of humor, you are funny as hell. It makes the video very entertaining to watch. Your videos are truly an anti-Covid device.

she's taking the fuel pretty darn good! Sounding better the more you drove it.... Impressive that the brakes worked too

I live where autocar is made my cousin owns a factory which does the wiring harness for the new autocar trucks

That's awesome you mentioned Derek from VGG. Both of y'all's channels are awesome to watch.

Have to say I’m addicted to your video’s, you remind me of my much younger self and it’s great. Please keep it up - well done.

It's fun bringing them back to life. I just resurrected a 74 corvette that's been sitting for at least 15 yrs. A lot if work but it's sure fun to drive. Good job. God bless

i love your cargo container shed and if you want to make it longer you could just add more and make them back to back and even connect doors in the middle to walk through

just to keep it short I LOVE IT

I have always had gasoline vehicles, but the sound of the Autocar and the Diesel is Classic. You can hear that motor Building America.

That's the best drive of such a old truck i have seen in ages

Love the video! So happy for you. What a great truck! Can't wait to see your next video.

Right on brother! will be watching this as soon as my work meeting is over with lmao

I here in Brazil, watching and thinking, really in the past vehicles were built to last, it was worth restoring, it was worth it.

That engine noise gives me a big smile. Love old machines. 👏🏻

I remember as a kid all Cummins engines had a compression release for starting and stopping.

"Tappy-tap-tap", "broken right half in two"- you've been watching too many AvE videos!

Something made the same year i was made that can start right up is really impressive! PS: Loved the video!

Please do a restoration series on this, you will win the Internet man, love all your videos 🤙🤙

That's so good to see it running, loving this series/playlist

Great News, well, done. Maybe the old girl needs to pull something heavy for a bit, something like your dozer , just to get them valves cleared out from standing so long. But for now = WAHOO - LOL, thanks for the video - Ian - UK.

So glad this is here

about time . soo excite

drove a diamond rio , street -tow-motor,,,i could put a 45' trailer any place forward and reverse,,retired now,,,46 years driving and no chargeable accidents,,,your vids bring back memories,,,thanks

I learned to drive trucks on this same type but a ten wheeler. I loved that truck. Sooo many gears to choose from and this was 2004 and we used it daily for work delivering septic tanks. Miss that truck

“Round the farm worthy”. Haha. I dig it.

That’s freaking awesome, this truck is sick, and driving it decades later is even more awesome

The exhaust sound is so unique with this rig especially being a Diesel sounds alot like a big block v8 Matt 14:49 @Diesel Creek

Thats awesome. I love it! Alittle jealous

I guess this is when all those beautiful pieces of metal found their freedom in the primary transmission LOL

You are absolutely correct on the brakes good sir. Shooting grease into the brake components tends to help free them up if they are seized.

I'm a VGG supporter and a former truck driver.....love the old units

Красивый грузовик !!!! Супер

He had some granddaddy. "If you can't find 'em (gears), grind 'em." LOL.

In Balkans when there was Yugoslavia we had companies like TAM and FAP that produces undestructible trucks for our countries, that truck in this video remind me to those trucks. Good video!

Matt, greetings from Philippines , everytime I see and hear old machines you repaired start and run , I find joy ! Thanks for the video!

oh yeah...just lube everything - lol.

Glad to see a feller doing the right thing and using the approved batt'ry terminal clamps. I'd love for you to put a full exhaust stack on it. I know everybody wants to run straights but I like hearing the sounds of the engine.

You made my heart feel good hearing that old girl hum along, brings back good memories for me..good work on her, and please, please dont paint her leave her just like she is..Beautiful!

Sheeeet, who doesn't love an ol Autocar?? 1897 to present...built in merica!...ARE WE NOT MEN??

"tappy... tap... tap..." - AvE

Great old truck !!!! Good to see her rollin' ! Trailer and tractor is gonna look great !! I'm 70 years old . From a pipeliner family . I grew up on the pipeline up and down Route 66 in the 50's . I remember lots of AutoCars haulin' pipe .

I just wanted to add a note to say how much I enjoy your videos. I used to enjoy doing as a hobby a few of the many things you are involved with, but I am 65, I have no energy due to chronic Lyme disease, and what energy I do have goes to helping to take care of my partially paralyzed spouse. Enjoy your life and your health while you still have both.

If Harley Davidson ever built a diesel, I think it would’ve sounded like this guy when you first started it. 10:33 It sounds amazing!!

I would patch her where she needs it and keep that great finish. What a beauty.

We have heard quotes from "AvE" and "Vice Grip Garage".

They don't build trucks like that anymore, old Macks, Kenworths, Oshkosh, Autocars etc built America. Great video and good luck with the resto, I am sure it will scub up very well.

I run a 64 B model Mack . You have to start turning way before it turns , then start straightening her out quickly . The steering don' t straighten itself . Sometimes reach down and pull the brake back up they stick. They are beasts from the past .

Idle sounds like a Harley Lmao.

I love the way that thing sounds at idle!

I drove a 1972 Western Star for a number of years, of course Diamond T, Autocar, Western Star,Reo, I can't remember all of them. Basically they were the same truck. The old timers like I am now called the Star a Canadian Mack. But the old Star turned hard as well. We had to put an air assist on it. That seemed to fix it unless you didn't keep your air tanks drained, or didn't put alcohol in the seperator in the winter. I sure loved the old Star. It had SQHD 4.88 read ends, a 4 by 4 2 stick transmission. It ran a Cummins Magnum 400 putting 437hp to the ground. Well good luck with your A-Car.

Don't worry they're all in a box ( or 2? ) you can sort the gears out later............ LOL.

Work fascinates me. I can watch it for hours! And I really like that horn! Truly a blast from the past!

Matt, you and my brother would get along famously. He loves to get old machines running too. He gets such a big smile whenever an old hunk of iron fires up. Especially when he has been told that it won't run due to a seized cylinder, or whatever.

Gulf Oil Corp had a fleet of these Autocars running out of Port Tampa back in the 70's. V-903 Cummins with the mufflers burnt out, RoadRanger 9 speeds. God what a show pullin' out on Dale Mabry going to deliver their load.

It has character the way it looks now. I hope like you said it takes a while to restore the truck. Fixing all the mechanicals fluids and rust issues is a good start and looking forward to seeing it towing the trailer

Probably preaching for the choir here, but still don't EVER, EVER repaint that truck. Nothing goes beyond "the original paint" !!! It is an important part of the historic value of the vehicle.

You just reminded me of the time I had to pump the brakes for all they were worth to stop an old Ford my Dad had. There was a brake line leak. I was going downhill with a stop sign at the bottom. Stopped 6 inches from the main road!

Back in my day we used to call them awfulcars. Bare bones brute strength get the job done trucks. Enjoyed the video

Definitely had to drive them with both hands, I received a broken wrist when the steering spun on a turn. Really tough, hated the thing but was only truck available to me at the start of my 30 year career. Made it 2 million at the end.

Your granddad's saying is very close to what I grew up hearing: "Grind em til you find em they will make em out of rubber someday!". Lovely old truck you got there!

That’s a man’s truck, how would you like to drive that thing 11 hours a day in 100 deg. Heat? 😁

i would fix the cab, restore mechanicals and leave her just the way she is, it is called patina

Cosmetic damage! Look at that gorgeous patina! Don't you dare touch that glorious paint!

How can you not be jealous wish i had one in my backyard

I feel joy seeing a machine close to my birth year return.

It's a BIG DAY down at the Creek. Congrats! Get some grease on that 5th wheel.

I love this old truck ! Sounds like a Harley ! Autocar look is unique and i can't avoid to remember the Steven Spielberg film « Duel » ... Great job done to get it alive again ! From Québec, Canada, mes plus sincères salutations !

I ran across your videos when I happen to see the old picture of that auto car! I absolutely love them older vehicles like yours!! It kinda reminds me of one of my favorite vehicles the old Willy’s!! The fenders, the windows! They are just way cool & wish they still made them today!! The vehicles they build today are rusted completely out by the time the motors need freshened up!! No point in fixing up a vehicle that has really light tin & all rusted out if you ask me!! I’ve been building an old 1969 Chevy 3/4- 1 Ton 4x4!! I’ve had my truck for 25 years & won’t ever sell it!!

Listening to her purring at about 11:15 that engine sounds *helluva similar* to the 1990's version in our local trains here in Scotland. I guess when you've got a lump like that, you don't need to modernise it too much. The biggest difference will quite probably be some emissions bits on the train's engines. Great to see her running and driving Matt but even better to *hear* her. I might get tired while driving that beast but I'd never get tired *OF* driving it. I really hope you can get her road-legal and put her to work properly. A beast like that will be useful around the farm but you've got tractors/dozers for that stuff ~ way better to get her out there properly. I don't know how many of these are driving about but I bet she'd be a *HUGE* hit at truck shows. I've got a funny feeling that the views on "Autocar-related" videos will be rather high too. 👌👍😁 First wee job just *has to be* the horn though.🎺📯 Cheers for now, Dougie.