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Old 07-14-2019, 11:23 PM   #1
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A few more from Cali:
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Old 07-14-2019, 11:26 PM   #2
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And a couple more.

Many more old photos at Los Angeles Library Collection:
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Old 07-18-2019, 11:33 AM   #3
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She’s back there...
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Old 07-18-2019, 05:29 PM   #4
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She’s back there...
Wow, what a picture! Thanks for posting.
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Old 07-19-2019, 10:56 AM   #5
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Spotted this photo in an old magazine...
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Old 07-23-2019, 02:55 PM   #6
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Old 07-23-2019, 02:57 PM   #7
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This one is pretty neat...
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Old 07-18-2019, 11:42 AM   #8
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Gotta be So Cal based on the smog. Doubt I ever saw a clear day growing up/surviving East LA.
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Just a day in the life of a truck.



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Old 07-29-2019, 01:58 PM   #11
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Old 07-31-2019, 12:44 AM   #12
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Yep, good stuff! I didn't have a car, we lived in farm country so I had a little tractor.

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A few more. Although these are more like "Where's Waldo."
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I dig them!

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Some of these pictures are like a hole in a wall letting me look back on my childhood!
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Some of these pictures are like a hole in a wall letting me look back on my childhood!
Exactly, I love seeing them.

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And more...

Neat to see the yellow fleet optioned truck "in the wild." The green truck is in Yellowstone and boy do I remember the bears begging for food when you used to tour the park.
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1project,
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LOLOL

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Old 08-15-2019, 12:09 PM   #21
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If her nose starts bleeding I am outta' here.
Oh no....

This is gonna be bad.


Ready?

"Well, we've seen Stranger Things..."

Told ya.
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Off topic:

After a particularly good day racing I took this pic of my Chevelle.

My wife got the reference immediately.

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After a particularly good day racing I took this pic of my Chevelle.

My wife got the reference immediately.

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LOLOLOLOL, no really, LOLOLOLOLOL


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A lot of jibber-jabber on this page, gentlemen. Let’s get back to those cool VINTAGE photos!
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Coupla good ones...
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