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That bottom one is a weird looking rig. But, with the right person skill applied, could be a really cool truck!

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its the one most looking like a 60's chevy though
its allmost like they took the photo of a pickup through one of thouse laughningmirror programs on the computer
https://lh4.ggpht.com/RHc1gLACRi2DDZ...7hcM9hHtc=w170

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Id take most any of these to haul my trucks around to shows!

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7328/9...f987ed16_b.jpg

Facebook pic.
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that truck wouldve been about 6 feet longer nowadays
would make a great base for a hotrod though
i might take out the middle axle and stretch the sleeperpart all the way to the rear of the chassis and make it intoo a camper

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7305/9...64fc73f8_b.jpg

Insured coming out of Fremont Ca
The C50 in the bottom of a 96" trailer is wild


Photo credit goes to PAcarhauler on flickr

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is it just me, or did they not put sleepers on any of the older semi's. I've seen quite a few cracker boxes with sleepers, but very few early to mid 60's conventionals with sleepers.

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i dont think they had regulated drive and rest times back then and people prolly where glad they had a job too , they prolly just propped a pillow against the doorframe put some cardboard across to cover the hole between the seats and keep the gearstick from poking them and slept that way or slept next to their load in the back
motels where prolly cheaper back in those days too

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Drive time has been regulated since the 40's. I'd hazard a guess the the union guys where motel bound.
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Thanks KQQL IT, great photo of the Insured crackerbox hauling brand new '64 Chevy's and GMC's out of the Fremont plant.

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Not my pic.
All credit goes to PAcarhauler on flickr.
Meant to give on the post. *

I hauled Toyota's out of that very plant up till its closing.






* Fixed that...ET

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Like the truck as well as the '56 Chevys behind it. I've owned a few through the years.

Bill

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from the patina on the truck and cars it actually looks like the pic has taken recently

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anybody else notice that the blue truck at the top of page 15 has one stand up stack and the passenger side stack is laid down? i wonder why they did that?

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Weird. Good catch kw bunk and battery box
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http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5328/9...2070aabe_b.jpg

Killed a square body too
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The above picture pretty much explains why I don't go to those shows. I've actually never been. Seen some in parking lots on show which was cool, but that's about it.

Bill

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i have the same teethgrind toecurl thing with smash and bash type actionmovies out of the 60's and 70's , some of those cars are worth a fortune nowadays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lbs_nYW3-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2x7yUMJkFk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiAFWKUrvDM

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Destruction is ignorant and wasteful,which goes against my nature. i learnt better'n'at

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My first experience with destruction was at Demolition Derbys in the late 60's. When I was a kid, I'd watch them on TV and thought they were cool, but when I was 16, I actually went to one at a local track. I had a '62 Impala at the time and what was in the Derby, but a '62 Impala. Some of the parts on the Derby car was better than mine and I had plans to go and ask the guy after the race if he wanted to sell some parts off of his destroyed car. All through the race I keep saying "Oh No"!! "Watch out for my parts"!! Well, before the race was over, what I was hoping for got destroyed. From then on, I always had a different out look on those type of events.

Even a few years ago, I made a deal on a '70 Impala parts car. The guy wanted the engine and trans and I was to get the rest. When I called the guy back, he had some kind of goofy story about what happened to the car. Coincidently the Monster Trucks were in town, just down the road from where the car was at. I believe I know what happened to the car...

Bill

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Used and abused C-50

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7437/9...eeca764e_o.jpg
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Well, that would have been a good load for a Tandem Axel C-90.

GVW on the Door says 24,000...

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5 lug steer axle. Light duty for sure.
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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7299/9...bffe926f_o.jpg
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Great picture.

A '60 Chevy Road Tractor hauling 4 Brand New '60 Chevy 4-Door Sedans. One or two are Bel-Airs, the rest are Biscaynes.

Bill

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Another Facebook find
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I'll take the truck and all 4 cars!
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That's a fantastic picture! Wouldn't it be nice to have a picture like that for every year?

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7381/9...c93751b4_o.jpg

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And the bad part is that it still has better sheetmetal than mine!!!

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Digging thru some old pics at work

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Pretty impressive.

A Show Truck hauling Show Cars!!

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I may have posted these on another thread but o well.

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i seen both types of trucks here in the netherlands there still running today , there being used as race-hobby trucks the white one is a ford (think i posted the picture of that one on here before) the one next to it is an austin

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Thanks for posting (again?). Those are great old shots!

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Nice. I like to see old trucks still working.

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Thanks. That s me standing by the tire at about age 4. Wonder why I drive trucks today? The tanker was my grandpa's. He hauled water to a small housing development in the mountains of norther AZ before they got "city" water. It had a V-6, people said you could hear it climb the mountains 10 miles away.