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| 64impala | Nov 30 2016, 09:15 PM Post #1 |
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As many of you here probably don't know, my grandfather (whom I don't remember as he died we i was very little) drove a Chevy C60 beer truck with a 427 big block. I love these classic trucks, and was wondering if there was any love out there for them along with these other rare and different vehicles that General Motors produced. I find these things just plain cool.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (note, non of the pics are mine, they are all from the internet) Thanks for looking
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| webestang64 | Dec 1 2016, 01:47 PM Post #2 |
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My Pop drove a delivery truck for Dr. Pepper right after high-school in 1953. It was an open side truck, I believe it was a Ford? I've always thought those panel trucks you have pics of are cool rides..... |
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| juantoo3 | Dec 1 2016, 03:23 PM Post #3 |
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My Dad was a glorified dispatcher for a small trucking company, so I've liked trucks since I was a kid. Later I learned my uncle was an owner-operator with a semi and dump wagon he used to haul produce from the fields to the packing sheds. More recently I drove 47 of the 50 states (never made it to North Dakota) and 5 provinces of Canada, so close to New Bruinswick I should have made the ten mile trip just to add that to the list...hauling posies and potted plants. My brother now drives, he's been with a couple different companies, not sure who he drives for now. Short answer is I like trucks, not enough to have the details committed to memory (too much more in life to concern myself with...like toy cars), but I do like trucks. I remember seeing trucks like the ones you show on the roads when I was a kid. I will say I don't recall seeing as many Chevys as I did Fords...Fords were everywhere. And I remember the White garbage trucks that used to come by every week. There was a Chevy / GM panel van, not the little (!) one (they are all big, but this one was a monster as long as a hearse) that a local bakery used to make home deliveries...you could flag the guy down and he'd sell off the back of the truck, he'd come by a few times a week. |
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| atombaum | Dec 1 2016, 07:05 PM Post #4 |
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I like the older ones in your photos. The big flat grilles of the 1970s vintage don't much for me. Too much plastic. It's amazing around where I live at harvest time, farmers bring out their old trucks to help with the field work, and some of them only see duty at that specific time of year, so they are in incredible shape. Got to get a slide to digital converter so I can start looking at the old photos again. Always wanted a stake-bed truck to use as a "yard truck" for fall clean-up, etc. It will never happen. |
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| microbuss | Dec 1 2016, 08:12 PM Post #5 |
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will hafta get a pic of the 1972 box truck one soon Was used as a moving van once lots of those 1970s ones around here I think the '80 Titan kinda resembles a International Still would be cool to remotor one with a more powerful engine & go cruising on the Interstates or the back roads
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| 94cadillacfleetwood | Dec 1 2016, 08:38 PM Post #6 |
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I like the Brazilian versions (pix 8-9)...they made those into the '90s, if I remember correctly. There are a lot of these still running around these parts. |
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| pjedsel | Dec 1 2016, 09:10 PM Post #7 |
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So Wes...have you made it to North Dakota yet (and no this would not be the time to come we just got a foot of wet, heavy snow earlier this week. Growing up in eastern Washington saw a lot of Chevy grain trucks and similar size trucks - had a Chevy dealership in the next town over - but in our little town we had the IH dealer so probably more cornbinders than Chevies or Fords. For a few summers I drove a '52 Chevy grain truck during the harvest season. I enjoy seeing pictures of older trucks just as I do older cars so thanks for sharing.
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| juantoo3 | Dec 1 2016, 09:47 PM Post #8 |
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No, sadly still haven't made it to ND. Or Alaska or Hawaii for that matter. Used to tell my dispatcher I could put a little extra air in my tires and float to Hawaii if he'd give me a load going that way...he never did. Funny, I was born and raised at the west end of I-10, now I live at the east end of I-10, the only stretch of I-10 I haven't been on is the drop into New Orleans, always used the bypass because I never had reason to go to NO. Been on I-95 from Key West (it actually starts officially in Miami) all the way up to the Maine border...only went one mile into Maine just to cross it off my list, but I did go there. Been on goodly stretches of most of the rest of the Interstates at least as of 1997. Anything built after that I don't know, but main roads don't change a whole lot. I still use my old laminated trucker map for long trips, and it's over 20 years old at this point. Still have my CB and fire stick antennas out in the shed, keep telling myself to put them in my pickup...if it even still works. |
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| webestang64 | Dec 1 2016, 10:15 PM Post #9 |
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The truck my Pop drove in the 50's was like this one.....
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| 426maxwedgie | Mar 10 2017, 08:41 PM Post #10 |
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I've seen a nice Chevy Bison at a local diesel repair shop on the way home from work. I'll try and post some pics this weekend. |
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| 64impala | Mar 11 2017, 09:16 PM Post #11 |
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Sounds like a cool truck
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| Harvestman | Mar 12 2017, 01:32 AM Post #12 |
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I've seen quite a few of those around in bus form. ![]() Chaminade Julienne 2 ex-Franklin City Schools (4) by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr Boy Scout Troop 24 by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr Ward GMC by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr Superior Chevrolet ex-OH (7) by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr ex-Decatur County Community Schools 87-34 by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr Ex-Oneida County A.R.C. by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr ex-Milan Community Schools 81 by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr Pickaway Correctional Institution by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr Blue Bird GMC ex-OH (3) by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr ex-Hamilton City School District 3 (2) by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr Carroll High School 6 (2) by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr Grace Brethren Church of Columbus ex-Worthington Christian Schools 5 (5) by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr Cornerstone Baptist Temple Wayne Chevrolet by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr
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| 64impala | Mar 13 2017, 08:35 AM Post #13 |
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Love those pictures! That front end suits buses so well
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| avalanche man | Mar 25 2017, 08:45 AM Post #14 |
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avalanches rule
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| Pegers | Jun 5 2017, 08:03 PM Post #15 |
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it sure looks like those gmc products stood up to the test of time. |
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| W Gee | Jun 6 2017, 05:04 PM Post #16 |
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I was truck freak as a kid. The GMC Brigadier & General , Chevrolet Bruin & Bison were prominent on the roads in my teenage years. Most of the 60's early 70's trucks shown were still pretty visible on the roads into the 80's ,especially were I grew up in farm country . Yea ... to me they sit up there with the 60's and 70's muscle cars of my childhood. The first thing I drove with my brand new drivers licence was a tandem axle 66 Dodge C series truck w/ a grain body on the back If I could afford it I would collect and restore these vintage trucks .... no such luck Edited by W Gee, Jun 6 2017, 05:14 PM.
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| microbuss | Jun 6 2017, 08:12 PM Post #17 |
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still haven't got a pic of the moving truck yet ugh |
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| Lummox | Jun 19 2017, 08:28 PM Post #18 |
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60-Cs are cool, no jive. I used to run a '66 dump truck as part of a summer job when I was a kid. LOVED it! Got paid to move a '70s school bus for somebody to an island. Drove it onto a car ferry and was 1st in line at the bow of the ship. Was a wild feeling, like a school bus boat! |
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So Wes...have you made it to North Dakota yet (and no this would not be the time to come we just got a foot of wet, heavy snow earlier this week.
Growing up in eastern Washington saw a lot of Chevy grain trucks and similar size trucks - had a Chevy dealership in the next town over - but in our little town we had the IH dealer so probably more cornbinders than Chevies or Fords. For a few summers I drove a '52 Chevy grain truck during the harvest season. I enjoy seeing pictures of older trucks just as I do older cars so thanks for sharing.
















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