Old picture of my Dad's 910

[davepl]

For a truck my Dad had for 25+ years, you'd think I'd have a photo of it, but I don't. I guess that's the way it is with cars and trucks that are just "always" there. But in transfering some old VHS tapes to digital, I caught it in the background.

There was nothing particularly special about this truck... 307, TH400. Power steering but manual brakes, radio delete and not even a lighter. But it started every morning at -40F when it needed to, and we dug our backyard pool by hand, loading the dirt up a ramp by wheelbarrow into the bed of this thing, making what seemed like hundreds of trips. By 1996 when he died it only had 70K miles on it, but below the belt trim it was more lumber than metal (midwestern trucks rust!).

A little irony in that he had bought all new trim from the dealer (what we'd call NOS today) because it was showing its age, but the "new" trim was always too nice to put on the "old" truck, so it sat in the GM wrapper for a couple of decades and probably went to the dump when my mom cleaned the garage. I wonder what a full matched set of NOS trim would be worth these days?

It's a 1968 GMC 910 (Canadian version of the 1500, must be Metric). And I suppose it's what led me into the whole 67-72 truck thing no doubt!

- Dave