Our Trucks Doing What They Did - Vintage Photo Thread

[special-K]

Hey, that ain't workin'. Or maybe that is a traveling work unit. I'm thinking yes.

[MARTINSR]

Damn I love this thread!

Thanks for posting guys.

Brian

[MiraclePieCo]

Chevy truck:

[MARTINSR]

Leading the seams.

Brian

[vintovka]

Looks like those years of lead exposure have taken a toll on that poor guy.

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by vintovka

Looks like those years of lead exposure have taken a toll on that poor guy.

Especially since he was only 28 in the photo!


Brian

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

Especially since he was only 28 in the photo!


Brian

Funny but might not be crazy far from the truth. I wish we could find out but I wouldn't be surprised at all if he was in his mid 50's. Of course the likelihood is in addition to all the lead fumes he was exposed to he was smoking a couple packs of Camels in those days and having a few hard ones after work.

These are what some people call, The "Good Old Days"??????

[vintovka]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

Funny but might not be crazy far from the truth. I wish we could find out but I wouldn't be surprised at all if he was in his mid 50's. Of course the likelihood is in addition to all the lead fumes he was exposed to he was smoking a couple packs of Camels in those days and having a few hard ones after work.

These are what some people call, The "Good Old Days"??????

We were taught in Ind Hygiene that the wives of German leadminers may have had up to 5 husbands in a lifetime and they, themselves, died very young having come in contact with contaminated miners clothes.

[MARTINSR]

I just saw this photo of a woman's hand who painted clock dials in the 30's with paint that had radium in it.

Brian

[vintovka]

Worse yet is some would moisten their brushes with their tongues to "paint" the radium on watch dials and hands.

Used to bring my small geiger to antique/military collectible shows and shock the h-ll out of those with radioactive stuff like clocks, watches, aircraft instruments and compasses. Got some real deals (often free) on low level stuff from those who would not accept items in question were barely above background. Dumb ones would not accept fact that background radiation is natural. Have a nice collection of "donations". Look up Patek.

[_Ogre]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

I just saw this photo of a woman's hand who painted clock dials in the 30's with paint that had radium in it.

that's terrifying brian... but heck with the 30s, they quit licking the brushes in the 30s, but manufacturers used radium clock faces until 1970. ceramic dishes still had radium in the glazes until 1973. wonderful life before osha and the epa (both in 1970)

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactivity-antiques

my father had a couple oz of pure liquid mercury in a glass jar in our basement. no lid, just masking tape over the top. we'd tip the jar over and a couple drops would sneak by the tape, into a tray and rub it on pennies with our fingers. the pennies looked like dimes after that and my brother and i would spend our 'dimes'

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

that's terrifying brian... but heck with the 30s, they quit licking the brushes in the 30s, but manufacturers used radium clock faces until 1970. ceramic dishes still had radium in the glazes until 1973. wonderful life before osha and the epa (both in 1970)

And yet people still ***** about OSHA and the EPA for doing what they do to protect us. Do they sometimes over do it? Yeah, I suppose. Being truly safe isn't always cheap nor convenient but I'm still a big fan....occasionally through gritted teeth in my working years.

[vintovka]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

And yet people still ***** about OSHA and the EPA for doing what they do to protect us. Do they sometimes over do it? Yeah, I suppose. Being truly safe isn't always cheap nor convenient but I'm still a big fan....occasionally through gritted teeth in my working years.

Was with EPA for 30 years, all that we did backfired. Now they have to use a "cure " to reduce the resulting overpopulation.

[Dan in Pasadena]

UGH! I'm gonna need some eye bleach to get rid of this image.

Please, do NOT show the mouth of a person that moistened their tongue with salvia while using radium infused paint!

I'll post this here. Interesting; though tragic reading.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ra...int/index.html

[vintovka]

Was a Hazmat Engr for a couple years and things got a little too scary for me so Went to work with Solid Waste. Even there it was hairy. Our geigers went off all the time at landfills and transfer station. Seems stuff from 1900's is still "hot" like radioactive ceramic jars that drug stores sold water out of to dentists xray "sources" to chemo stuff. Love to switch mine to gamma and watch folks cover their privates when natural rays set it off.

[MARTINSR]

Damn I love these assembly line photos!

[vintovka]

Especially a factory dump truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mr48chev]

Those assembly line photos are great, I'll being that one of the bare cab being put together more than a little bit.

I've got a friend who's dad worked in the anthophyllite and tremolite mine(s) in Idaho in the early 50's and his stories were about the same as the guys in the lead mines in Germany. He has had raspatory issues for years because of it. He said he and other kids actually played in piles of the stuff.

All of us who are over about 65 can remember going in someone's house that had a big sheet of 1/2 inch or so thick Asbestos behind the wood cook stove in the kitchen or the wood/coal stove in the living room. Quite often your mom had a couple of small squares of it to set on the table or counter to put hot pots and pans on. The original siding on my mom's house was most likely Asbestos but it all got pulled off in 1968 when I was in Vietnam and they did a remodel on the house and added a dining room. That siding would be this stuff in this photo. I wish I had that roadster body now.

I blew the dust out of brakes for years not knowing how nasty that stuff was and stopped when a coworker said it bothered his asthma. Now you have a tent to wash it off the backing plates in.

Now I need to study that photo a bit.

[vintovka]

Yes 99% sure those are asbestos shingles? I find it ironic asbestos was mined here at the Copperopolis mine for decades and then when asbestos was finally deemed a "hazardous waste" they dumped it back from where it came from.

https://thediggings.com/gallery/te0v1_no

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by vintovka

Yes 99% sure those are asbestos shingles? I find it ironic asbestos was mined here at the Copperopolis mine for decades and then when asbestos was finally deemed a "hazardous waste" they dumped it back from where it came from.

https://thediggings.com/gallery/te0v1_no

I had the shingles like that on my old house tested, was well as the installation in the attic, neither had any asbestos. That was nice to know.


Brian

[MARTINSR]

Ohhhhh damn I love this one!





Brian

[MiraclePieCo]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

Ohhhhh damn I love this one!

Brian

After seeing these pics, I now know why it's so difficult to replace the rear floors in panels and Suburbans. The entire vehicle was literally built around it.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

After seeing these pics, I now know why it's so difficult to replace the rear floors in panels and Suburbans. The entire vehicle was literally built around it.

Reminds me of the way an Airstream trailer is constructed.

K

[_Ogre]

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

After seeing these pics, I now know why it's so difficult to replace the rear floors in panels and Suburbans. The entire vehicle was literally built around it.

one piece of plywood, my 59 1T lwb panel floor was probably 5ftx9ft in back
it made for a great bedroom/living room

[vintovka]

Great pics. The hand work to assemble them was and is amazing!!


Again just seeing the floors makes my back ache!!! Even at 19 having to sleep (or try to) on a 2 week trip from LA to Sf to NY in a 52 suburban in just a sleeping bag was brutal.