This is a picture of my 1958 FC-150 tow truck, S/N 65548-11431. It has a 1970 ford 302 installed by the previous owner (sorry the rest is original).

It was sitting in a salvage yard in Virginia when I found it. The owner bought it from a ski lodge and had plans to restore it; you know how that goes. The worst damage was from sitting in the yard for so many years. I bought it "As Is" with a flat tire and no brakes and drove it on the trailer under it own power. Not bad. The odometer shows about 8500. I thought it was broken but it does work and after taking the hubs and stuff off to do the brakes it was all original and not in too bad shape either. I'm starting to think that it may actually have under 10k miles.

A little rough and rusty with 1 cracked window on the driver's side and under carriage rust but the tow truck body is solid and I do mean solid; diamond plate bed with push bumpers and some really thick steel. Rust can't hurt it for 200 years.

I would appreciate any info folks can give me on this. All I know is that it may be made by Koenig Iron Works out of Texas. You can see this was engineered as a commercial tow truck. I have seen one picture of this in all the places I looked. My wife bought me a book: "Wreckers and Tow Trucks" from Crestline by Donald Wood that has 1 picture in it. I have all the other classic 4 wheeler and buyers guides I can find and nothing. I even went to the "international" tow truck museum in Chatanooga, Tennesee and showed the picture to a gentleman there and he could tell me nothing about it. He had never seen one before and actually offered to store it and show it in the museum when I fixed it up.

Any info would help.