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Old 04-24-2013, 02:09 PM   #8
Dan in Pasadena
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Re: New guy looking for a thread

I'll try again:
Nah, doesn't want to work for some reason and I can't upload from Photobucket (like I ususally do) from my work computer. I'll try again later.

As for chrome reverse/baby moons and wide whites? I'm 58 so I went to high school from '68-'72. My dad was a construction guy (so he was around young guys with trucks all his career life and by extension so was I) and I don't ever remember seeing a truck with white wall tires. Not ever. Hell, I don't remember seeing them with mags wheels either til later.

Slot dish mags were new in the mid 60's and I only saw a relative handful of guys that could afford them. Sure, they were on cars in magazine but in those days there weren't unlimited cheap Chinese imports and palces to buy them like now. There was no internet to shop unlimited sources.

I DID see trucks with chrome reverse rims and baby moon hubcaps though...occasionally. We had a relative with a school bus yellow '56 F100 that had chrome reverse/baby moons - but he didn't work with it.

Don't get me wrong, I genuinely like the wide whites on older trucks. I just want my truck to look like it would have IF I'd had money when I was in college in the early 70's - about the first time I started to see lots of cars with aftermarket rims on them.
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