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Good stuff, thanks for sharing. Brian |
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I started as a co-op student (GMI = General Motors Institute) at the Flint Truck assembly plant. Since then I've worked in about 12 different final assembly plants, two proving grounds, three pre-production shops and one remote self contained design/build operation, in production launch, product design/development, and engineering program management. I've worked on 6 generations of Full Size Trucks (Squarebody, GMT400, GMT800, GMT900, K2 and T1) one electric vehicle (Volt) and one low volume show car type build that I can't talk about. K |
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Yeah, I don't like seeing the broken door glass!
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I like that one. Here are a few more for interest. Look carefully in the background of the blue #213 and you'll see a Cameo being used as a work truck. It even looks like stacks and a toolbox installed in the bed. |
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WOW!
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This is a cool one!
Not sure if this is bigger. The original was huge and I haven't been able to figure out how to post it that way. Brian https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...da&oe=5CE144BC |
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Oh daaaamn this is a good one! I just did a little googling and this is in Pikeville Kentucky.
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That is such a nostalgic sight for these old eyes. Such pics are very real to me from so long ago. Thanks for posting, made my day.
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Oh yeah, look at the brick street, it's been removed! There is a little section of it left probably as a "memory" of the old street. Crap I hate seeing those changes! It happens so much. I know right here in my city just blocks from my house is the old movie theater and stuff on what was called "main street" has changed so much. My parents had a restaurant after the war right there by the theater. My sister tells stories of being 5 year old and crossing main street to go to a store to buy candy. Well, that store, along with the whole block is being torn down to put in a 3 - 5 story apartment building! When I was a kid the Honda Shop was there that I bought parts for my C-110 50. The old firehouse is there where I remember fire trucks coming out of with the firemen standing on the rear of the truck (remember that?) all that will be gone! I pass them on the sidewalk on my evening walk over the last number of years, all of it will be gone. :(
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1914 Horse fire fighting in DC
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Lol! Now that's a true "Task Force" vehicle.
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It's not our trucks "doing what the did" but it's damn cool, on the assy line.
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Is this a classic or what!
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That's a good one. Need a few more hands on the front bumper!
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And another one.
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I know this is an old post but if anyone else is still looking, just a comment. You'll notice that there is no chrome in the TF photos or illustrations. My restored 57 3100 retains the painted (ok, powder coated) bumpers, grille, etc. I printed out a blurb displayed with the truck and included a comment "if you're wondering where the chrome is, you're probably under 50 years old."
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This isn't an old thread, it comes alive over and over anytime anyone finds a cool old photo. And yes, the chrome was not there as much as it is today that's for sure!
I don't know about these trucks, but in the sixties I "lived" in a Buick dealership (my dad was a salesman and I was there a lot and saw a lot) and EVERY FRIGGIN PIECE on the car it seemed was an option. OMG find a parking lot full of ORIGINAL 1967 Oldsmobiles and there won't be two the same, I have seen chrome mouldings on sixties cars where it was a one time thing, never saw another, just that one car. OMG a day night mirror was an option, a rear seat speaker, every frigging thing on the car. The "window sticker" would be a foot long COVERED in all the options and prices. So yeah, the Chrome was a big deal adding a TON of money to one of these trucks (probably as much as $100 to the price LOL) and way more people didn't get it than got it, they were TRUCKS after all. Brian |
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Yeah, maybe here in Souther California away from agricultural areas they were used a bit more for dailies, but everywhere outside of true cities - tool. |
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A couple of cool ones!
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Great thread. I have mostly 1t and up pictures. Are those welcome here?
There has always been "truck love", it was just waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less common. It took decades, probably since day-1, for it to grow into what it is now. The biggest change now is most it seems are bought by people who really don't need them. They are a preferred model in the car line-up. I mean, they did stopped calling them trucks, right? |
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I chopped my truck in 1974 and honestly it was number three that I know of. There had to be some chopped ones out there that didn't make the magazines, but I never heard of one, never saw one at a show. Mr48chev on this forum has the earliest I know of being chopped, I don't know if I have ever nailed down a year with him. I will PM him right now. But yeah, and my truck was a 3/4 ton too, so that truck really was a big deal to me. I just came across this photo a while ago and have posted it here before but it's such a big deal for me here it is again. This photo has both those trucks in it, never saw this before until just months ago. I have an original copy of it stored right now waiting to be framed and put up on my new garage. Brian |
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New old photos keep popping up and we have got to keep this thread alive when we see one. Brian |
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Special-K, One ton and up truck pics are definitely welcome. I know they're all or nothing, but the 55.1 grille is very cool to me. And the way the beds were built on the 40's to late '50s wreckers had so much style it's hard not to miss them today.
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Cool stuff!
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So the "doing what they did" part of the title sparked an idea for me. Movie trucks. When a truck is shown in a movie, it's usualy doing what it does to do what it did. So I went off to search for some pictures from old films and TV shows.
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If the one with the Mackay Speed shop doesn't make you drool you don't belong on this forum!
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Ha ha. I think I know what you meant but I had to re-read this a couple times. But seriously, I'm glad some like this thread so much. I had no idea when I started it that there are so many vintage AD & TF Chevy truck pics out there. Keep them coming. I really enjoy seeing them. |
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