Before there were monster trucks like Grave Digger, there were giant-wheeled carts to move coal around. The main difference was the coal wagon’s tended to crush fewer cars – though it was close – and weren’t (usually) introduced by a bellowing voice yelling “Sunday Sunday Sunday!” This picture of a coal wagon from Abbot and Downing, sent to use by reader Earl Burroughs, also highlights the fact that automobile graphics haven’t evolved as much as we’d like to think. That’s a sweet coal logo on the side, complete with the sprawling C. And coal isn’t even a brand, it’s just a thing. If you have any awesome classic Concord photos lying around, email them to us at news@theconcordinsider.com and we’ll put them in the paper.
Before there were monster trucks like Grave Digger, there were giant-wheeled carts to move coal around. The main difference was the coal wagon’s tended to crush fewer cars – though it was close – and weren’t (usually) introduced by a bellowing voice yelling “Sunday Sunday Sunday!” This picture of a coal wagon from Abbot and Downing, sent to use by reader Earl Burroughs, also highlights the fact that automobile graphics haven’t evolved as much as we’d like to think. That’s a sweet coal logo on the side, complete with the sprawling C. And coal isn’t even a brand, it’s just a thing. If you have any awesome classic Concord photos lying around, email them to us at news@theconcordinsider.com and we’ll put them in the paper.
