Our Trucks Doing What They Did - Vintage Photo Thread

[vintovka]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

I moved to Idaho from the SF bay area and it is MIND BLOWING how many trucks are here! OMG every other car on the road is a jacked up 4x4 truck!

Brian

Ignore the PM i sent and welcome to the CALEXODUS and rapid growing number of Californian refugees (like me).

The number of raised vehicles is easy to explain. Bad weather, road debris, and unpaved roads are tough on low vehicles. Once hit a small piece of wood and tore a hole in the tank out of our VW Passat SEL TDI. We left a 10 mile trail of diesel behind us to delight and skidding of others behind us while traveling on a rainy day. Having to watch for every little thing lying in the road sucks the fun right out of driving.

Congratulations on your escape from the PRC. Hope you find Idaho is a different world, free of the permanent dark cloud enveloping our former, god forsaken, state.

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by vintovka

Ignore the PM i sent and welcome to the CALEXODUS and rapid growing number of Californian refugees (like me).

The number of raised vehicles is easy to explain. Bad weather, road debris, and unpaved roads are tough on low vehicles. Once hit a small piece of wood and tore a hole in the tank out of our VW Passat SEL TDI. We left a 10 mile trail of diesel behind us to delight and skidding of others behind us while traveling on a rainy day. Having to watch for every little thing lying in the road sucks the fun right out of driving.

Congratulations on your escape from the PRC. Hope you find Idaho is a different world, free of the permanent dark cloud enveloping our former, god forsaken, state.

Yep, it is very different here for sure! It town there is nothing like you describe. Just driving around, it's like California, even when it snows, at least so far. I suspect some funky days but so far it's not much more than a heavy rain day in SF.

Brian

[MARTINSR]

Yep, I did some searching and finally found a TD!

Brian

[vintovka]

Was hoping you were way outside the city. Still hope you enjoy escaping CA as much as we do. Here in rural OR mufflers are just an option and Govt approval and controls are minimal if almost non-extant. Usually we are only ones on 101 or beach for miles. Swear you can feel the tension when we cross into CA on occasional trips and always feels like a very successful BM when we leave. Hope you got a bigger shop out of the move.

[MARTINSR]

Ahhhh, the "bigger shop" was one mistake I made. I bought a house with an HOA and almost no back yard. It's a long story but yeah, things are very different. I have a great guy in town whom I met that says I can do the body work at his large shop he just finished so we will see. Right now my truck is waiting in my freezing cold garage for me to get back to my five minute a day plan. But I have so much other stuff to do it's on hold for sure.

I am hoping I can make something happen with some installation to keep the noise down and get it closer to paint here in my garage.

Brian

[vintovka]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

Ahhhh, the "bigger shop" was one mistake I made. I bought a house with an HOA and almost no back yard. It's a long story but yeah, things are very different. I have a great guy in town whom I met that says I can do the body work at his large shop he just finished so we will see. Right now my truck is waiting in my freezing cold garage for me to get back to my five minute a day plan. But I have so much other stuff to do it's on hold for sure.

I am hoping I can make something happen with some installation to keep the noise down and get it closer to paint here in my garage.

Brian

HOA=PITA. One thing CA had was warmer weather (why its the first choice of homeless). The cold feels worse as you get older. Glad you found a place to work. If you do car work a shop is a must. We made a bid on a nice place on lake closer to Eugene for a second home. Why is it i can remember every inch of the shop and not the house?

Now only AD owner in about 40 to 70 miles around and really getting Honks, Waves, thumbs up and headlight flashes. Going to drive it to the beach today as part of our new holiday tradition. BTW agate hunting is fun and exercise.

[Clarance J]

Hey guys. Love this thread. This was an era when you could see a car a mile away and you could tell what make of car it was. There have been several pictures on here that were find the AD/TF in a sea of cars and going down the rows you could tell make and year. Not today.


Earl

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by Clarance J

Hey guys. Love this thread. This was an era when you could see a car a mile away and you could tell what make of car it was. There have been several pictures on here that were find the AD/TF in a sea of cars and going down the rows you could tell make and year. Not today.


Earl

I didn't think of that, yep, you are right sir!

Brian

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by Clarance J

....Not today.

That's because only so many shapes go through a wind tunnel as absolutely cleanly as possible. They need them to be as drag free as possible to make gas mileage requirements so they tend to look very much alike.

I get it, makes sense. Things are just not like they once were in EVERY way, not just cars.

[vintovka]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

That's because only so many shapes go through a wind tunnel as absolutely cleanly as possible. They need them to be as drag free as possible to make gas mileage requirements so they tend to look very much alike.

I get it, makes sense. Things are just not like they once were in EVERY way, not just cars.

Makes you wonder how and AD would do in a wind tunnel. With the old 235 it felt like the truck would just come to a stop when hit with a real gust. Recall the mileage would depend on which way the wind blew.

[1project2many]

Originally Posted by vintovka

Makes you wonder how and AD would do in a wind tunnel. With the old 235 it felt like the truck would just come to a stop when hit with a real gust. Recall the mileage would depend on which way the wind blew.

I can promise that a stock TF is an interesting vehicle to handle above 100. Pictures of the truck Chevy sent to Daytona in the '50s show it needed some help.

[vintovka]

My lifted AD has all the aerodynamics of a large cinder block brick.

[HO455]

Originally Posted by RyanPartridge

Found this which states that it’s Concrete, WA July 1958

https://www.flickr.com/photos/117891934@N07/14032956683

On the North Cascade highway. One of the best drives in America! I highly recommend it to everyone. The Olympic rainforest through Alpine forests then above the tree line and then back down into high desert terrain or vice a versa depending on whether your going east or west.

Kudos to the OP for starting an excellent thread!

[MARTINSR]

[MARTINSR]

[MARTINSR]

Come on, there is at least one TD down there!

Brian

[MARTINSR]

[Kevin Mac]

How about this one lol.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

Come on, there is at least one TD down there!

Brian

White '58/'59 on the lower right corner.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Kevin Mac

How about this one lol.

They used to spray agent orange on the cotton plants to defoliate them, so that the bolls could be picked by machine.

One of my dad's first jobs as a kid was to hold a flag so the crop duster could tell what row he was on.

K

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by vintovka

Was hoping you were way outside the city. Still hope you enjoy escaping CA as much as we do. Here in rural OR mufflers are just an option and Govt approval and controls are minimal if almost non-extant. Usually we are only ones on 101 or beach for miles. Swear you can feel the tension when we cross into CA on occasional trips and always feels like a very successful BM when we leave. Hope you got a bigger shop out of the move.

I like the city really, I like going out to eat at a different place every time, that sort of thing. I have a minor league bb park just a couple of miles from my house, that sort of thing.

But I get you, I grew up out in farm land, there is a lot of good to be said for sure.

Brian

[MARTINSR]

Just saw this on Facebook, cool thing is it was taken pretty close to my home town in the SF bay area, in Mountain View.

Brian

[1project2many]

That's a cool picture. I really don't see a lot of school bus pictures. Looks to me like the 55.1 was a new addition, judging by lack of plates and stickers left on windshields. What's interesting to me is how differently people treated buses. Those four, small lights on the roof were all that were needed to stop traffic. Today we have strobing yellows and reds plus one or two stop arms with strobing lights plus cameras.

I'm having trouble remembering what I've posted. I think these are new.

[1project2many]

One more from the parking lot of Disneyland for the "find the AD truck" game.

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by 1project2many

One more from the parking lot of Disneyland for the "find the AD truck" game.

Those are awesome! I just love looking through those parking lot photos, all the convertibles that would be back then!

Check out this one, taken 1970. It's so funny to think how OLD those trucks where. I bought mine in 74. OMG it was 26 years old! Today that would be a 93 Chevy pickup, that doesn't seem very old to me now!

Brian