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Great picture Dave, very cool man .......... thx for sharing

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a couple old pictures I ran across. no history known, but the B&W is believed to be an advertisement

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Great picture of your dad and play companions :cool:
That one's from a brochure. The Suburban is Dark Blue

The parents of my grandchildren (son & daughter) playing with a trike I brought home from a job where it was abandoned

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No nonsense company workhorse.

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My dad was just showing us some old scanned family photos and this one popped up. Quincy, CA in 1970…

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One photo at a time…

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Interesting shot. It looks like all the streetlights and phonepoles are leaning out over the street from the weight of XMAS wreathes, and the gutters on the curbside are so deep the cars lean down into them.
Probably an artifact of telephoto lens compression, and computer rendering of the analog format. Just my guess...
Did that truck ever look that new? Yes, there it is.

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Yeah it’s a bit skewed haha. I took that pic of my dad’s computer screen which was curved.

I agree, pretty cool to see a shiny new one.

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Great last couple pictures

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Here's a Chevy at the Ceresville Mill outside of Frederick, MD up the road a while from me

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Nice truck, cool old building .........

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Ok, here's a picture of my father in law in the mountains of Chihuahua, Mex with a 40's/50's Chevy...

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I like the building and truck!

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A little older and not 67-72, but interesting.
550 gal of Atlantic water dumped into the Pacific by famed cross country racer.

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Originally purchased for work around the clock.

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I posted this first pic not long ago but found some more relating to it. The first is my grandfather working in a garage in Lexington KY in the late 20's/early 30's. He is on the far left. The second pic was taken at Dixie McKinley Cadillac in Lexington sometime in the 1930's where he worked most of his life. He is on the far left again and covered in grease again. The third pic is from, I guess, around 1940 with their fancied up garage. It is the same garage as the second pic, noticing the "Parts" and "Specialized Lubrication" signs hanging on the right wall. The fourth pic is many years later, in 1960, when he had made Service Manager and was in Detroit for training - he is the man on the left. The last is from the same training session with a group photo of all the Service Managers in attendance. Cadillac would send him to Detroit when new models would come out and give the Service Managers hand-on training on what to expect.

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The stone part still stands proud. Someone started restoring it and replaced or repaired some windows a while back. Not sure what the story is but I'm sure it will not be left to decay.
That is interesting. Buick 6 powered
My favorite truck I've seen on this site. I have considered putting together a Dept of Interior (light green) replica from parts I have

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dave6672, that was probably my favorite post in this whole thread, really like the "whole story". When did he pass away and how old was he?

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Now days, that would be the initial scenario of an ecological disaster.

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Thanks very much. He passed in 1983 when he was 80 and I was 18. When I was a boy, I would tell him that I wanted to work on cars when I grew up and he would say "Go to college and get a good job". He ended up doing very well with his 8th grade education.

He was mostly retired in the 1970's and spent most of his spare time fishing and took my brother and me along with him a lot.

They had built their house in 1938 and lived there until my grandmother passed in 2004. Everything old they saved and it went up in the attic. After my grandmother's passing, my Dad took all the old stuff and put it in my parents attic. It stayed there until last year when I cleaned it out after my parents passing and now's it's in my basement. I'm going through things and that's where I came across these pictures, which I hadn't seen before.

I now have my grandfather's Snap On toolbox which has a card taped in it from 1942 when he donated blood during WWII. I have a bunch of Cadillac manuals, including a leather bound one from 1932 that covers the V8, V12 and V16 Cadillac engines. As well as a lot more Cadillac training materials, certificates, etc.

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how very cool is this Cadillac stuff,an old Snap-on tool box and the old photos,an absolute treasure but to have it and all be your Grandfather's?priceless.stuff like this,money can't buy.very nice.all the best.

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Fantastic story Dave, It's nice to hold that were our fathers or our Grandfathers .....

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Working hard

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Those are quite the wheel chocks. I assume they are welded together. They certainly dig into the tarmac.

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Yeah. These days his tow bill work go to paying the county or state for road damage. A simple chock with chain to slot in the tow body solves that problem

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Like the tow truck
From a magazine in 1971
I like the fact that it has the auxiliary fuel tank doors:)

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Looks like a government purchase stepside.

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Camping in Redwoods.

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Use electricity wisely

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1971 OR 1972 Formula Firebird.

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Lower molding probably in stock at the local Chevy dealer in '76.

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Must be a visit to Grampa

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Wow that’s super cool

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Saturday afternoon.

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1969 Blazer at Silver Lake sand dunes in 1969

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Interesting that the 1969 Blazer has black painted wheels, which is a 1969 and prior truck feature. Blazers usually came with white painted wheels.

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That's a really neat pic.