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Look what I found on a LWB for sale at a dealership near my work.
Any idea what that is, besides maybe a dealer add on cell phone? Blower in the bed has me stumped though, what in the heck is it for?
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The phone thing looks like it might be a CB radio? Not sure about the blower!
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That is a pre-cellular mobile phone.They were around in the late 70s-early 80s.Very expensive.Is the blower hooked into the heat system?I`ve seen trucks with caps have a radiator(baseboard)in the bed with hoses running to them from the truck`s heater-core.
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its the early on-star...ha ha
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The radio I believe is a Johnston VHF radio they were quite common but not popular back in the 60 and early 70s, used by a lot of ambulance, fire, and rescue companies. What you see is just the head unit the actual radio is pretty big and probably mounted under the seat if it would fit.
In bed heat cool.
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its for those cold nights at the drive in
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i remember those phone and yes they were really expensive and air time was even more than it is now !!!!!! and the fan in the bed is a trick lots of people used to keep the kids and pets warm when the camper top was on and they were travuling , way before the new seatbelt laws went in , my grandfather had one of the heaters in the bed of a 57 he had when i was a kid . did ya know that in tenn its agains the law to ride in the bed of a truck now !!! dont ask how i know
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I agree Tn ,,,,,camper set up. Notice the sliding back glass. The camper probably also had a sliding window in the front so every body could talk to each other !!!!!
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I always figured the carbon monoxide form the header pipes that dumped just past the cab would keep the little munchkins warm..... j/k
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Didn't they make intercoms that ran between the cab and bed of atruck if it had a camper top installed? That would also explain the rear heater.
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hmm...
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I can dig the heater. man, how cool would it be to totally restore that truck and have that oddball stuff on there?!?
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It can be yours for $2500 cash! It ain't a bad looking truck, but it ain't a good looking truck either. Not a whole lot of rust, but it's bent and dented pretty good.
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We had those same phones in the trucks of a company I worked for years ago. Just looks like a blower in the back to move air. What would be the heat source?
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