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Great pictures.

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Thank you, I cant take the credit though. I find most of these pics on Instagram or google and screenshot them.

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That is quite a unique build in that last truck. All about the haul with a place reserved for the operator and controls... a phone booth for two! :lol:

I'm on a newer computer and fresh out of pictures. My old 'put power jack failed. I'm waiting to get together with a friend more savvy than me to open it up and splice the power cable in. I want my pictures!

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1st pic: Brand new truck. Risqué signage for the time. "Hey look, Hickey sidesteps" :lol:

2nd: Just droooool

3rd: Neat glider kit ad

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Great pictures.

A Cummins 903 in the Wrecker?

What no Detroit, lol.

Like the Chevys on the Assembly Line.

1970 or a little newer Chevy 80 or Chevy 90 trucks.

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Found some good truck pages on FB this week, so here's some more!

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Next to the peterbilt is a hardworking jimmy

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Love those Pontiac plant photos!

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1960 GMC "B" Model Tractor on a test run, June 1960.

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I have never seen an Astro 95 with a snow plow! And I thought the long wheelbase tandem axle Astro stakebed my company had was unique. No, never got a picture of that one.

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I really like these two... especially that '62 tractor.
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Some nice looking trucks there.

That '62 C-80 is pretty interesting. Sure looks like a Straight Front Axle under it.

The '62 GMC 6500 got one, but I believe it's been said that the Chevy didn't get one till '63. May be they were available both ways in '62 ??

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I like the C&H truck. When I was in junior high I had a friend who's Dad drove for them. He drove a CabOver Pete. I bet that Jimmy barked pretty loud with the straight pipes.

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X2 ! Thanks 5T for posting these photos. Can never see enough of these. The I beam became a new heavy duty option on the Chevy 80 series in '62, then became a standard in '63 when the torsion front end was eliminated. Now I'm wondering if I beams were used on heavy duty '60 an '61 GMC's with the conv. cabs. Like the Budd wheels, must be a 409 under the hood !

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The first was in '62 and the GMC 6500 model only, on conventional cabs anyway.

This was a discussion we had for many years, many years ago. Some said "no truck" got them till '63 and I was a stubborn hold-out saying this was incorrect since I had one, lol. Some said I had the year wrong, it can't be, etc. But at one point, it was proven to be true, by brochures produced as well as other owners and mechanics having and working on them, but the 6500 model only as mentioned, starting in '62.

That said, I also mentioned the question of the '62 C-80 Chevy. It's still not proven either way, as far as I have heard anyway, if all or just some had them. They could have been an "option" to have them either way, where with the GMC the only way to get a 6500 was with one. If anyone out there has more info on the Chevy, please post.

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OK, reading over some '62 Chevy 80 Brochures and the '62 Chevy truck link below, Chevy did offer the '62 C-80 and M-80 (tandem) along with a few others, a 9,000 Lb and an 11,000 Lb I-Beam Front Axle as an Option.

Reading further, I see that they offered 3 Front Axles for their Heavys. A Standard Torsion Bar, a Heavy Torsion Bar and the I-Beam.

Info on it can be found here on pages 56, 61, 62 and 64. The whole 149 pages are all quite interesting:

https://www.gmheritagecenter.com/doc...olet-Truck.pdf

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Always liked these.

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"Wards" Riverside Tire ad, 1960 featuring 1954 Chevy Advance Design Tractor