Vintage picture thread

[KQQL IT]

Found another one of old blue. Kinda liking the blacked out grille and headlight bezels.
Hopefully I'll have a better way to get slides processed soon.

[KQQL IT]

Appreciate the deleted pics and post's.
Adios

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by KQQL IT

Appreciate the deleted pics and post's.
Adios

If you are referring to the photobucket pics, that's on photobucket's policies, not on this site.

[special-K]

I guess we missed what ever happened. Another good old pcture

[SKT]

[70cst]

Originally Posted by SKT

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That is a cool picture

[davischevy]

Yes it is.

[davischevy]

This picture was taken somewhere in southern California in early 1973.

I bought that truck new, here in Arkansas.

I sold the truck in 1976, but the little cutie is still hanging with me and letting me buy 67 72 trucks.

[Advanced Design]

That is a cool pic too. USA 1 on the plate and all.

[SKT]

[Killer Bee]

oh my, I need a cigarette

[SKT]

Originally Posted by Killer Bee

oh my, I need a cigarette

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I don’t have a smoke, but I do have more pics:

[SKT]

[SKT]

[SKT]

[special-K]

Did I post this yet? It was when I first got my house in the mid-80s

[davischevy]

From around 1990. My dad's 71 still had the original rockers. My dad wasn't a car show kind of guy, but my mother was, and she won a trophy at every show she entered.

BTW, he sold this truck in 1995 for $8,250. I still don't know why I didn't buy it.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by SKT

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I don’t have a smoke, but I do have more pics:

That's the back yard at Chevrolet Flint Assembly during the 1979 model year. Line 1 was pickups at 60 jobs/hour; Line 2 was Blazer/Suburban at 36 jobs/hour for a combined total of almost a quarter million vehicles per year.

I told the story one time about how vehicles would get lost out there, sometimes to the point that we would re-build a new vehicle with the same content and ship it in place of the original. The lost ones usually turn up at model changeover when production ceases and the repair backlog gets worked down.

I think that photo demonstrates how that might happen.

Here are the rest of the photos taken during that same shoot: http://www.73-87.com/7387info/Assembly%20Line.htm

K

[ho70]

Originally Posted by SKT

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How things change, then a Camaro in the pics would of excited me, now the trucks do

[davischevy]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

That's the back yard at Chevrolet Flint Assembly during the 1979 model year. Line 1 was pickups at 60 jobs/hour; Line 2 was Blazer/Suburban at 36 jobs/hour for a combined total of almost a quarter million vehicles per year.

I told the story one time about how vehicles would get lost out there, sometimes to the point that we would re-build a new vehicle with the same content and ship it in place of the original. The lost ones usually turn up at model changeover when production ceases and the repair backlog gets worked down.

I think that photo demonstrates how that might happen.

Here are the rest of the photos taken during that same shoot: http://www.73-87.com/7387info/Assembly%20Line.htm

K

A friend of mine bought an 87 Monte Carlo SS in late 1988 at a big dealer. He saw the car on the back of the lot from the Interstate. He asked about it and nobody knew anything about it. They finally found the file on it.

[factorystock]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

That's the back yard at Chevrolet Flint Assembly during the 1979 model year. Line 1 was pickups at 60 jobs/hour; Line 2 was Blazer/Suburban at 36 jobs/hour for a combined total of almost a quarter million vehicles per year.

How about the 1980 model year when the economy tanked? I assume a lot lines were shut down. IMO, Chevy trucks were never the same since then, new era was all bout computers, aerodynamics and lightweight components.

[SKT]

Originally Posted by ho70

How things change, then a Camaro in the pics would of excited me, now the trucks do

[70cst]

Lets try and keep on track and post pics of 67-72 GMC and Chevy trucks.
Thanks

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by factorystock

How about the 1980 model year when the economy tanked? I assume a lot lines were shut down.

That was probably true for passenger cars but was not my experience with trucks.

Through no fault (or planning) of our own we rode a wave of prosperity and growth up through the early 2000's. My theory is that as passenger cars got physically smaller (and less capable/durable) trucks and truck wagons moved in to fill the void.

Profitable truck products bankrolled all of GM up until the unpleasantness of 2008.

K

[Robin]

My old 69 back in 83