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I remember them all -- especially the drop side van. I looked at it like kids look at transformer toys.

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Four eyed TF at 2:01. :)

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https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/00...g?v=1622558263

https://www.grayflannelsuit.net/blog...nstruction.jpg

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When is the last time anyone here saw one of those 61 pickup trucks with a wide bed, chrome trim on the sides, and two tone paint? I have seen an occasional one but not in a very long time. People didn't seem to embrace that torsion bar front suspension so maybe 61 was a bad year for Chevys.

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What could have been

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that looks better than the current Escalade.

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I think I just threw up in my mouth a little

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The wings are a little overboard, but other than that I like it.

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1958 Chevy was one of the ugliest cars ever made. Not too surprising Cadillac designed something this ugly and thought it would sell. I wonder why they didn't go through with it?

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:lol: I've always felt the same about the '58s. You'd have to go to the '30s and look at some Hudsons to top that.

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Gone to pasture:

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How about this dealership that collapsed. Don't have the story, but there was an AD on the roof, wild!

Brian

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I'm crying in my coffee right now.

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Hey Brain, people been asking about you, haven't seen you posting lately. Good to see this today...Jim

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Brian: Good to see your back. Where you been hiding or did the people in Idaho send you back to Cali????

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Its a REO but when its got your name on it does not matter make and model :)

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Family business?

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I was back in the 40/50's Ran a oil distribution That would be my grandfather and my dad and uncle.
Dad and uncle learned to drive in that tanker.
I would be the III hence why I like the picture.

always thought about getting a reo 1.5 ton and making a custom camper look like that on outside would be cool.

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This thread is supposed to be about OUR trucks - Chevy and GMC - but since it's my thread and I love old trucks an REO passes muster. Let's see more!

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Thanks, I come here often and have nothing to post being I haven't worked on my truck for one reason or another. So I just look around at what you guys are doing.

Thanks, no Idaho is great, I just haven't worked on my truck much because of a bunch of reasons. Hope to get back to it soon.

Brian

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That's a modern photoshop.

A luxury SUV was not on anybody's radar in the late 1950s.

Luxury SUVs were not on MY radar, even when I joined the GM Luxury SUV group in 1999. (I was in engineering program management for the 2001 Denali and the 2002 Escalade).

K

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Good to know GM never had a designer that drew something THAT ugly! Lol

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If you guys want to dive into real GM design stuff move into the neighborhood of Harley Earl who was head of the design studio for GM in the fifties. It's AMAZING seeing the stuff they did. His grandson has a great facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HarleyJEarl88 and http://www.harleyjearl.com/ is an amazing site to see things he did.

Check it out, some very cool stuff!

Brian

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Stumbled across this article while looking for something else:

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2021/08...-chuck-jordan/

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Yep, Chuck joined the team at GM design in the mid 50's and took over Harley Earl's job in the late 50's. He is responsible for the Mid year Corvette, the Rivieras up until 73 and many others of course.

Brian