You have to like Old Trucks.............

[3fan4life]

Saw this on Facebook:



There's just something about old trucks!

Here's a couple of more that I took at the VA Transportation Museum a few years ago:

[f6john]

Agreed, love old trucks. My oldest, only 33 years old

[Jess from VA]

Patina.... a word that needs visuals.















You want to have some fun?  Go to a paint shop and tell them you need some color matching help.

[hubcapsc]

-Mike "... and new motorcycles"

[Jack B]

This is me sitting in my Grandpa's old Dodge truck my Grandpa died in 1972 and the truck has been sitting for most of that time. My cousin has it now and it is a big crowd pleaser at car shows. It is still titled in my Grandpa's name.

[Rams]

Thanks for posting those pics, love old trucks...   

Rams

[Ramie]

Thanks for the pics.  When I was growing up my dad had a service station and 39 Chevy tow truck, wish I had a picture of that thing it was a hoot to drive.  Not sure why but it always started in cold weather but struggled to start when it was hot out.

[Jess Tolbirt]

Saw this on Facebook:



There's just something about old trucks!

Here's a couple of more that I took at the VA Transportation Museum a few years ago:

HDR format?

[Westernbiker]

Seeing the pictures of these old trucks reminded me of a truck my dad had a very long time ago and a short story about it I will never forget.
I was very young, probably 6 or 7. My dad had an old 40 something International pickup, a 1 ton I think. It was huge and of course being very young, it seemed massive to me. We used it mostly for hauling hay for our horses. I remember one day my dad decided he was going to paint this truck. He had gotten out a step ladder to spray paint the top of the truck. I was standing close by while my dad climbed up the step ladder with the spray gun.   He had put the ladder sideways so as to get close enough to the truck to spray the top.   He had a nice red paint to do this job with. Well, as he was spraying the top, he was reaching over when the ladder slipped away and down he went, chest and face first into the fresh red paint.  ??? That was the first time I ever heard my dad use words I had never heard before.  
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[Jess from VA]

In my early life, we could only afford one car.  There came a day though when we could afford an old beater of a car for mom (who along with her two sisters, painted houses with their dad (my granddad) for a living, and to put all three of them through college).  So mom knew her way around a can of paint and a brush.

So the first few beater cars mom got, she just scrubbed them up real good, then painted them with a can of paint and a paintbrush.  This covered up all the rust pretty good.  They didn't look as good as an Earl Shieb paint job, but didn't cost $39.95 to paint either.  (This was about 50 years ago)

We had to put cardboard down on the backseat floors though, so when she drove through puddles or the rain we didn't get splashed with water through the big holes in the floor.

Having a 2d car seemed like a real luxury at the time.  It beat having to pedal your bike five miles each way to the couple local stores.    

[3fan4life]

Saw this on Facebook:



There's just something about old trucks!

Here's a couple of more that I took at the VA Transportation Museum a few years ago:

HDR format?

Yes, I love HDR PICs.

It seems that they turn out better with manmade objects than with just nature pics.

[Gryphon Rider]

Agreed, love old trucks. My oldest, only 33 years old

I just sold my '81 GMC that was similar to yours.  If mine had looked as good as yours, I would still have it.

[signart]

One of my true barn finds, I dragged home. I was the 3rd owner of this 1955 GMC. Ran with the smoothest 287 c.i. Pontiac V8.
GMC's were truly heavier duty than Chevy in a lot of ways. While '55 Chevy trucks V8 was only 265 c.i.  - GMC used Pontiacs for theirs. They had their own GMC six cyl. also.
Much bigger radiator and clutch and rear springs were heavier duty also. I did all the brakes, brake lines, wheel cyl, fuel lines, carb kit, upholstered the seat, and painted the dash. Left the rest as is. Put on a set of used tires and headed to Moultrie. GA. Trouble free there and back, bone stock.

[Rams]

One of my true barn finds, I dragged home.

I can probably find a place to store that 55 for ya, wouldn't even charge ya.   Might be able to find the time to exercise it for ya to.    Nice find!

Rams

[signart]

The geezer I got it from, made me promise not hot rod it. Heard you had a lead foot, unlike myself
He did say I could put a radio in it, an AM!...seriously, he said that.

[Rams]

The geezer I got it from, made me promise not hot rod it. Heard you had a lead foot, unlike myself
He did say I could put a radio in it, an AM!...seriously, he said that.

Being that I am the KY Old Geezer State Rep for this board, I find such rumors to be greatly exaggerated.    Additionally, since I don't listen to a radio in or on any of my vehicles, no such modification would be necessary.    Therefore, I would submit to you that I am a much more suitable person to retain this nostalgia in it's current form.    

Having said all that, just let me know when I can come south to drag it to MY home.  

Rams