Coleman truck parked in front of the Battle Mountain Trading Post, Minturn, Colorado, January 2004.
"I remember that Walt Owen had an International two-ton truck with a Coleman front end. It was a County vehicle,... later turned into a wrecker. The tires on that Coleman truck are about what I thought they would be. Back in those days that was a pretty big tire; they were said to have cost $100.00 apiece and I believe that Gates was the only one that made them." -- Theodore "Bud" Beck, 2004
"Now and then I visualize one of them [Coleman trucks] heading up the mountain when it was almost dark; many times there would actually be flames shooting out of the exhaust pipe as well as a good deal of noise." -- Theodore "Bud" Beck, 2011
