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This photo i like, well i love them all actually, especially in color. I know it's probably not the right hew, but this is how I imagined it looked then.
My 1942 1.5 ton is was this color, except had black fenders and running boards

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Gmc coe

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Portable parking lot.

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someone has a thing for rusty 59s
looks like my old panel on top

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Logger

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Parade, circa 1962.

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That looks doctored.

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I would have to agree. A case of load enhancement.

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Does anyone remember the S10/S15 ad from the early '90s that featured an S10 driver confidently hooking his truck to a broken Semi with a tow strap? I cn't find the ad now. It stuck with me because I worked at a dealer then and we were doing things like replacing S10 axles and transmissions destroyed by towing campers. At least GM was kind enough to add a disclaimer to the S10 commercial.

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Pencil drawing:

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A bunch of fine old GMC commercial trucks in this 1959 TV series called "Cannonball."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6PO2umYgmk

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Someone was pretty good.

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Naw, it's as real as this one ;-)

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Plumbers.

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i lived in kalispell mt in the late 70s, i believe the loggers up there loaded trucks that way all the time. there was a rr underpass heading west out of town, there was always fresh bark on the steel or parts of logs on the side of the hwy

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Not "vintage" but "doing" what they did in style.

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Yes, most likely. That matches stories from west coast family members that worked in logging industry for years. OT vehicles, but definitely good examples.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ed/46...6a04524b23.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bb/55...c9ea0eb55f.jpg

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Sugar beet farmers are another group known to load trucks heavy. For years they'd get a stock truck and add a tag or tandem axle and an auxilliary transmission and call it a beet hauler. Those trucks work damn hard for a few weeks a year.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Vaue9wlb3uU/Su...an_Pic0024.jpg

http://www.sweetbeet.com/growernet/r...00years4b3.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IPShnps6Xt.../loader-46.gif

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That's right down the road from me. Did you go to the car show in Turner on Saturday?

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No just a day trip on Friday. Needed to pick up two (2) golden age Kentucky rifles from a seller. Truck owner said it was used right there in Turner.

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Shot with rail car is amazing. no moron paint!!!

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:lol: So true! I knew a guy who worked for Southern Pacific RR. When they painted their buildings they threw sand on them after that to discourage people carving things on them. Or put sand in the paint, I forget which. Didn't stop the spray paint, though.

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Great stuff guys, thanks!


Brian

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Look at all of that shiny metal, with no rustproofing at all.