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I clicked this thread to see CL finds. Take your off-topic stuff to the off-topic section.

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This is on Ebay but I thought I would share since there are so many cool trucks in the photos.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/30396566186...8105&customid=

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1950 5 window
https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/c...309078948.html

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Yakima wa FB marketplace 54 GMC cab https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...87514368%22%7D

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Is that a Palomino anniversary truck on the left?

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I wondered the same thing. I think it is a step side though.

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I kind of doubt it. Since the Palomino is a 1 of 1 model. That's as rare a a GM vehicle gets.

http://oldchevytrucks.com/blog/index...-gmc-palomino/

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Ahh... I was confused. GMC produced a '57 model for Autorama called the Palomino. Yes, 1 of 1. Beginning in '58 a truck could be special ordered with a tan / gold paint scheme similar to Palomino. Several folks have come to the forum looking for info about the '58 Golden trucks.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=542434

It is. And scanning the other pictures you can see alternate colors of paint showing where gold has been removed.

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Looking at the Palomino in several photos online you can see that they dug into the Chevy parts bin for the bed and then added their own custom touches. Outside of the ribbed decorative panels at the front of the bed sides and a few other custom made pieces and the custom sewn seats a person could collect photos and build a pretty close duplicate if they had a mind to.

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ogre went down the rabbit hole looking for palomino

info from jim carters, pic is a screen grab
it is a 1 of 1, still has the original one off tires and original condition
basically a gmc suburban pickup (cameo) with leather interior and gold paint
it sold in 2012 for $197k, probably get a cool million at pandemic pricing

1957 GMC Palomino
Owner: Ralph Wescott
1957 gmc palomino pick up truck

You can’t get more unusual than 1 of 1. This is how Ralph Wescott of Largo, FL describes his 1957 GMC Palomino. General Motors built only one! It was produced to draw attention to their truck display at the New York Autorama show in 1957. Fortunately, its prior four documented owners recognized it as special. It has been mostly in storage and only a few recent car shows have had it on display. The Palomino now has 9,350 miles and almost no restoration has been done. Even the original custom leather seat is free of age cracks. The engine sounds like new as it slowly moves out of its enclosed trailer. It occasionally may be driven in the neighborhood or at a car show.

Gm designed this special 1/2 ton around a fully optional assembly line model. This includes a deluxe cab, Pontiac V-8, Hydramatic transmission, power steering, power brakes, radio, deluxe heater, Cameo style bed, windshield washers, etc. The manufacturer then added additional features that set it apart from the others. In the following photos note items such as (Palomino only) gold paint, custom leather seat and door panels, script trim panels over the front edge of the bed and gold floor mat.

One of its more unique items are the U.S. Royal Master tires. Ralph states GM requested U.S. Royal to produce 5 with this unusual rubber sidewall. After 50 years they are still in on their original 15′ rims! When not at a show the Palomino is in temperature controlled storage out of the sun to protect the leather interior, it’s original paint and bed.

Based on Ralph saying his Palomino is not for sale at any offer, we will refer to it as ‘priceless.’

2012 NEWS FLASH UPDATE

Ralph at 75years old finally decided to sell some of his most prized low mileage show trucks at his own auction that was nationally advertised. The Palomino was given a value by the last bidder. It brought $197,000.00 by a west coast buyer. WOW! See what happens when you have the only one GM ever made.

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Not on CL but, I found 3 AD trucks for sale while we were doing a poker run this weekend. All have been outside for 30+ years, so I’m not sure if there’s anything good left. I believe he wants about $800 each, if anyone is interested I can get the owners info.

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I paid 100 for the pair for these two in 2011 and all I wanted was the back half of the red/orange cab. The red one would have been the ideal S-10 swap candidate in that the frame had so much junk welded to the back of it to mount a water tank and pump and who knows what else that there and there was about 500 lbs of metal welded to it. My daughter laid claim to the green one.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/albu...720&fit=bounds


https://hosting.photobucket.com/albu...720&fit=bounds

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albu...720&fit=bounds

Prices have gone up a bit in the past few years.

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1-1/2 ton TF in Ellensberg WA https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...Anull%7D%22%7D

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If a person saw nothing but this thread they would swear that all the trucks in America have gone to Oregon and Washington to die. Just sayin'...

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anything in michigan is rusted to pieces and i think the texans are hording their trucks

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Most of them you see posted in Washington or Oregon are in the eastern parts east of the Cascade Mountain range or were found there.

Ellensberg is Hay country where the main crop is Timothy hay. A lot of those flatbeds were hay trucks in that area back in the 50's and 60's. The Green one I Have that I posted up above still has an Oregon title from 1984 when it was used on a farm in Oregon. The orange one hauled a big tank with a pto driven pump around the Washington wheat fields for years.

I'd bet that that green 57 was just as the add said, parked one year and never used again as they either didn't need it after that.

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You guys are just lucky out there! Go for 'em!

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I'd say that too many of those farmers spend the winter watching American Pickers and think that their old farm trucks have turned to gold. That green 57 is about the nicest ran when parked truck I have seen in a while though.

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Only 15K!! And they say there is no inflation?

https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/...323891507.html

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Patina costs extra...

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Its in Portland, Gun and knife required plus backup.

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It's west of St Helens about 5.4 miles.

Montana plates and the condition says it was bought in Montana for about 500 by a guy planning to make a killing flipping it.

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it's race ready with lots of weight reduction and speed holes. That's worth $5K

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AD Monster Truck on Ebay. Reasonably priced at $13,500.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/36340345965...IAAOSwHhVgmzjG

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Or to live. I watch CL ads from that area all the time. Hard to imagine finding an 82 Chevette diesel running and driving and in good shape in any other part of the country.

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It may be that people tend to keep vehicles longer here in the PNW than a lot of other places in the country.

Every one of our vehicles on the place except one qualifies for "Classic" plates in this state being over 20 years old. That one is an 02 VW Passat that is my wife's daily driver.

I remember when I lived in Texas a lot people questioned why I would drive a car over 5 years old because they thought anything over five or six years old was just too old to drive. I knew at least three people down there who had never bought a set of tires for a car because they had never kept one that long. Here the farmer might get a new truck every three or four years but usually turns his old one over to his foreman who in turn hands the one he is driving over to the field hands ot irrigate or do chores with. A lot of those trucks never get traded in or sold until they are so worn out they can't be fixed anymore.

The other thing may be that a lot of areas in eastern Washington or Oregon are far enough off the beaten path that scrappers didn't get those trucks when scrap was high. That's good for the guys hunting them now though because a lot of the guys who have them stashed out with the farm machinery haven't been harasser by people trying to buy them. Some of those now may have watched too many episodes of Pickers and decide that that row of old trucks down in that patch of sage brush between the wheat fields and hidden between the old broke down combines are all the sudden worth a ton of money.

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This 57 showed up on the local FB. Looks like one you could fly in to Pasco and then drive it home.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...rral_code=null

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That's a much nicer truck than would appear at first glance.

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Might be Worth asking in parts alone. If had room for another i would be all over it.

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I have to agree that the more you study it the more you see a pretty nice truck for the money. It needs a few changes to get it going all in one direction on one theme but all of that is just unbolt and bolt on pieces that jive with the total build a bit better.

As I said before, it would be pretty easy for someone to fly into the Pasco Wa airport (PSC) and drive it home anywhere in the country.

If I had the cash I'd be all over it right now and be hitting the road with it.

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An AD "humpback" panel truck, one of only six made, the seller claims. I've never seen one before.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/17478513545...EAAOSwFWhgsZbp

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Well if it is one of six they need the documentation on who did the conversion and for who.

The truck is pretty cool but if you are buying one like that you intend to show in as an original restored truck in big shows and there are a lot of things that aren't right on it for that. Cute such as the body color air cleaner and light green engine but either or both would cost you and award at any serious Chevy truck show.

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I think I saw this rig or one very much like it on this forum. Some one help me and tell me Im not crazy

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The Humpback MIGHT be rare but that doesnt make it desirable.

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Not desirable as a modified rig but put back with the correct colors on the parts that have wrong color paint on them and painted correctly on the outside, meaning paint the fenders body color and paint the underside of the body and fenders chassis black rather than green and you have a truck that you can take to National Chevy truck shows and draw some positive attention.

When the car lot selling says it is one of six, what documentation do they have? Who owned it, Milk company, laundry company or ?? Done in authentic paint and signage for the company it was originally converted for would be worth a lot of show points.

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Wow, tough crowd tonight! A unique and beautiful truck for a reasonable price and nobody can find anything nice to say about it? Welcome to the internet, I guess...

I just checked the ad: the seller claims it has a mere 22,000 miles and comes with all ownership documentation.

Seller says it was featured in Vintage Truck magazine, August 2020. Maybe you saw it there?

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The thing on the hump back is that the owner's personalization in the engine compartment will probably cost him some sales and or cost him several thousand dollars in sale price.

Wrong color paint on the engine, Green painted air cleaner and some other miscues. To the guys who want totally original that is almost as bad as seeing an LS under the hood. Pretty but being judged on originality in the stone stock class you just lost a lot of points.

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Everyone has their own opinion on "beautiful". To my eye it looks like a turtle. Yes, it's unique but I would never call it "beautiful". I call it unique but I'd never want it, hence rare, unique but not necessarily desirable.

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Sorry for this but the image of mating stinkbugs came to mind when i first saw it.

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Y'all Grumpy Gus's gonna double down, eh? Heck, it's almost like giving a compliment comes out of your paycheck :lol:

I came here to post a unique AD panel beer vending truck that's currently listed online, but since this humpback made y'all so unhappy, I don't want to ruin anyone else's day :mm: