![]() ![]() So, he proceeded to transform its graphics in great detail to look the part. When he saw the Cortez which its Plain Jane appearance (older pic also provided), he envisioned this as a motorhome that fictional Jurassic Park founder John Hammond would have been tooling around it. Then it moved to Tennessee which is where the seller found it after the Clark had been sitting for years after the owner’s death. This motorhome spent most of its life in New Mexico before 2000. Clark sold the business in 1970 and a group of Cortez owners would keep the production afloat through 1978. Powerplants were borrowed from whatever was already commercially available. A front-wheel-drive transaxle was used in the Cortez to increase interior headroom while decreasing height. These were Class-A motor coaches which are built as recreational vehicles, whereas Class-B motorhomes are built in a van body, and Class-C motorhomes add a recreational vehicle coach body to a truck chassis and cab. This one-of-a-kind is available here on Barn Finds for $5,000.įor whatever reason a forklift manufacturer would go into the motorhome business, that’s what Clark did in 1963. So, if you’ve got an inch to go dinosaur hunting and don’t mind a bit of mechanical work, check this interesting vehicle in southwest Virginia. The seller found this 1965 Cortez in decent shape and transformed its looks to that of a vehicle you might have seen in Jurassic Park – on the right side of the electrified fence, that is. The Cortez was popular, perhaps because it was smaller than some of the land yachts out there. ![]() built motorhomes in the 1960s? They got out of business in the 1970s and others carried to torch through the end of the decade. Just my experience here.Did you know that the Clark Forklift Co. ![]() The Hyster folks are a much nicer to work with bunch. and extremely tight-lipped about advice and knowledge. I've found that in my area, Clark is extremely proud of their stuff. ![]() the FORD 192 is a pooch, but the rest of the machine is excellent.īut NO forklifts are 'cheap' to work on. My '74 Hyster H5H is a much more operator-friendly machine. I'm pretty certain what you have there, is NOT like mine. and the combination makes it somewhat (well, actually a whole lotta) unruley to use. and the hydraulic system uses a variable-displacement (vane-type) hydraulic system, rather than a fixed-displacement pump. so much, that it's actually much safer to NOT use them at all. The brakes leave a whole lot to be desired. My '69 IT-60's inching system consists of a pedal connected to a valve that hydraulically dumps the torque-converter. Inching control, allows the operator to effectively control and modulate the driveline disengagement to 'inch' forward and back. The drivetrain MAY contain (and I say may, because your truck may be a bit too old to have such things) an 'inching control' feature of some sort. You'll have lift and tilt, steer, throttle, and (if you're lucky) brakes. You won't find side-shift or many other fancy features on lift trucks made prior to the late '70's. Could you perhaps narrow the model number down a bit? I believe by '61they had quite a few models. ![]()
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