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Re: Our Trucks Doing What They Did - Vintage Photo Thread
drivers side panel for suburban? looks like guy is trimming flashing off stamping
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Yep!
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looks more like he's refining the edge of a mold die.
you wouldn't use a milling machine for trimming a sheet metal panel he's using a huge mill to boot
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They are usually machined a few thousands of an inch shy and then skilled tradesman ("die makers") will provide the final fitment between the male side and the female side, spotting them in with a handheld die grinder. K
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Looks like Santa is sitting on something other than a building!!
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Literally. That said if thats a real car up there the weight must be set on columns in his legs.
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Cool stuff!
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I guess, by today's Chevy standards that tow vehicle would be called a double cab. Haha.
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This one is cool although you might need to press ctrl and + a few times to really see it. The Miller delivery trucks to the right of center are AD COE trucks.
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Here's one of my old trucks doing what it did for me!! Those days were fun!!!
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Ooh! I spotted it. Back by the '60.
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It's like where's Waldo, haha.
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The AD guys can correct me, but it looks like there are three AD's in the middle photo. The shop truck with the push bumper is obvious. There's a panel van parked by the service door. But then it looks like some kind of Suburban / panel with a single rear door is hooked to the back of the shop truck.
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Awesome photos!
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Where's Waldo?
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The photo above reminded me of the only pic I've found thus far of our '69 GMC:
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Lots of cool ones in the top photo
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lots of sweet iron here
you could probably buy every car here for $100,000, i'll take them all what year you figure this is? i see a 64 elco and 64 vista cruiser ![]()
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I'm guessing 65 although the newest vehicles I see are '64. It's Credited as Chevrolet plant Muncie, IN South Parking Lot. The lot is paved in that photo but partially dirt in the photo below, so if there happens to be an old Muncie employee hanging around the forum we might get a better idea. https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collecti...id/230/rec/232 There are a lot of cool pictures if you have some time to search. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Last edited by 1project2many; 12-10-2020 at 01:23 PM. |
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1965 GTO! 6th row 2nd one in.
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