GMC photos from history

[gmc1963]

Post them if you got them.

[gmc1963]

1960 fire truck photos

[gmc1963]

more 1960 fire truck

[gmc1963]

last fire truck, bus and grill guide

[GMCDAC]

I've got a few GMC pics, I will post a couple that have 60-66 GMC's in them.

[6066gmcguy]

I got about 100 old GMC Toro-Flow Testimonials all with a photo on the front and the Testimonial on the back.

[FetchMeAPepsi]

A picture thread! Now were talkin my language. I could sit here and stare at pic threads all day. Heres a few from my collection. Found all over the web. i like the red ad because of the skinny tires. I hope to put them on my truck one day
And I noticed we can upload 5 pics at a time now. Yay!

[gmc1963]

modified suburban with 5th wheel from the us geological society

A Johnson Elevation Meter mounted in a four-wheel-drive GMC Suburban 1960 model K1001 truck. The slope angle of the road was measured by a sensitive electronic pendulum, and the distance was measured by the fifth wheel. An onboard computer solved for the difference in elevation ten times per second. In areas of moderate relief with an adequate net of relatively smooth roads, these instruments were capable of establishing elevations within 2 feet while traveling at speeds approaching 30 miles per hour.

[gmc1963]

10 more ads with 401 v12 and desel engines with numbers

[gmc1963]

rest of broshure and more history pictures

[gmc1963]

gmc trash truck

[GMCDAC]

Who said electric vehicles were a new idea? GMC electric, 1913.

[6066gmcguy]

1955 GMC L'Univerelle

[6066gmcguy]

60-66 Postcards

[GMCNUT]

Here are 3 genuine GM dealer postcards I have of 60-66 GMC's. Interestingly, I own a 1960 GMC Suburban that came factory Red and White so it was identical to the one in the postcard, and I am getting a 64 GMC on the 5th of April out of Western Kansas that looks identical to the two-tone pickup in the other postcard. I also owned a 65 GMC Suburban identical to the one in the 3rd postcard....how ironic!

[fyrboy]

Various 'n sundry. Enjoy.
Before 'n after on the fire truck.
http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq304/fyrboy1/GMC/PaintingRegulations_zps0d7490b0.jpg (http://s458.photobucket.com/user/fyrboy1/media/GMC/PaintingRegulations_zps0d7490b0.jpg.html)

[fyrboy]

Fire trucks on the Youngstown site: http://yngfire.com/index.php/topic,5455.0.html

[Jeannie]

This thread upgraded to Sticky by request.

[FetchMeAPepsi]

I just ran across this article for GM and GMC history. They have old truck pics so i thought id share. total of 6 pages. next ones coming...Click once to view bigger, click again to view huge.

[FetchMeAPepsi]

I know you historical nuts have all been waiting for the next bit so here it goes. Final coming later this week.

[FetchMeAPepsi]

Final bit of the article came in today. Disappointed it didnt include 60s trucks but its still a good historical article with good pics.

[Quigley]

1966 Sales Brochure & Mag Ad

[Rockdriller]

1955 GMC L'Univerelle

That's thing is beautiful...
Was it ever produced.....?....or was it in concept ?

[raycow]

That's thing is beautiful...
Was it ever produced.....?....or was it in concept ?
It was a concept vehicle exhibited at shows. However, it probably served as inspiration for the Corvair van and some of the other small vans introduced by GM, Ford and Chrysler in the early 60s.

Ray

[BarryGMC]

I have to agree Ray. I am currently restoring a 62 corvair ramp side truck and the body shape of the front is really quite similar.

[Rockdriller]

I found a few of them under Google Images.
In addition to the Corvair similarities, it also sports a little Nomad influence in the rear.
As pretty a "mini-van" as you could ever imagine.

[GMCDAC]

Hey everyone, i ran across a few more pics of Don Garlits GMC Suburban. The newer one is obviously not the same one as the vintage picture. It is cool that he put a 60-61 hood on it when the new one was built though!

Later---DAC

[Cayoterun]

Are these Jimmy's or Chevys??

I can't trust my eyes anymore. Either way, it brings back memories of the "good ol' days" in my younger years.

I took a combine like these, but on a F*** truck up thru Ks. and Neb. in '59 and '60.

Sure was a top-heavy rascal to drive. Didn't have to worry about getting a speeding ticket.
Made you think you were in a hi-wing airplane with the combine header hanging over the cab.

[Rockdriller]

Are these Jimmy's or Chevys??

I can't trust my eyes anymore. Either way, it brings back memories of the "good ol' days" in my younger years.

I took a combine like these, but on a F*** truck up thru Ks. and Neb. in '59 and '60.

Sure was a top-heavy rascal to drive. Didn't have to worry about getting a speeding ticket.
Made you think you were in a hi-wing airplane with the combine header hanging over the cab.
They all look like Jimmy's to me.
I'll bet that was the "load from ****"....

[Cayoterun]

They all look like Jimmy's to me.
I'll bet that was the "load from ****"....

Sure made this kid's knees weak loading and unloading.

That was tricky, too. A combination of raising and lower the bed, as well as the ditch you backed in had to be so-so. We used a 4 X 4 on hooks in the stake pockets so we'd have more than half of the drive wheels on the bed.

My boss sent me and another young kid with it, to haul grain to elevator when we were cutting. I sure didn't want to bring his new truck home as a modified convertible. He stayed home.

When we got home, the boss split the profits with me, and I paid cash for a '55 Chev. conv. The car cost less the $900. Wish I'd kept it. Hindsight is 20-20.

Mods: If I'm off-subject too far, please delete.

[GMCDAC]

Sure made this kid's knees weak loading and unloading.

That was tricky, too. A combination of raising and lower the bed, as well as the ditch you backed in had to be so-so. We used a 4 X 4 on hooks in the stake pockets so we'd have more than half of the drive wheels on the bed.

My boss sent me and another young kid with it, to haul grain to elevator when we were cutting. I sure didn't want to bring his new truck home as a modified convertible. He stayed home.

When we got home, the boss split the profits with me, and I paid cash for a '55 Chev. conv. The car cost less the $900. Wish I'd kept it. Hindsight is 20-20.

Mods: If I'm off-subject too far, please delete.

I hope they don't delete, as it is relative to the history part of this thread! Thanks for that pic. the loads probably wouldn't fly with the DOT nowadays!
Got pics of the '55?

As Rockdriller said, they are GMCs, first pic is my daily driver, a '55. Second pic is a '58 or '59 I've been getting some parts from. one of those are a few trucks back in your pic. The small pickups still shared a lot with their big brothers.

Cool pic---Thanks---DAC

[Rockdriller]

Sure made this kid's knees weak loading and unloading.

That was tricky, too. A combination of raising and lower the bed, as well as the ditch you backed in had to be so-so. We used a 4 X 4 on hooks in the stake pockets so we'd have more than half of the drive wheels on the bed.

My boss sent me and another young kid with it, to haul grain to elevator when we were cutting. I sure didn't want to bring his new truck home as a modified convertible. He stayed home.

When we got home, the boss split the profits with me, and I paid cash for a '55 Chev. conv. The car cost less the $900. Wish I'd kept it. Hindsight is 20-20.

Mods: If I'm off-subject too far, please delete.

I gotta say, the "good ol' days" were wrought with danger....
I spent my younger years hauling heavy equipment around....no reason to go into it too far....but dicey at best...a little hydraulic fluid leaked onto the deck....some rain or snow mixed in....and it was always a recipe for "rubber knees"....
I sure respect ya' for hauling that kind of a load....while you're short on sleep....sore from who-knows-what.

But....I know very little about the Agg Industry, but I know that the "Harvest Migration" , from South to North through the Heartland is very interesting.
From what I have seen, they actually "Road" their equipment quite often....all the way up north to the end sometimes.

I don't think anyone will ever "delete" a guy with the experience you have. I'm thinkin you should tell us a bit about your time in the field.

[Cayoterun]

Rock:

I maybe should start an "ol' timers" thread in general discussion to see if others on here from my generation will chime in.

The old trucks you guys are restoring now are the ones we made a living with back then.
The equipment we used, and the world we lived in was so much simpler, but more manual labor than today. The equipment was easy to work on, too.

I've been in Ag. almost all my life, so really don't know much about most of you guys world.

I can't savvy what our two sons in their 30s are talking about on the stuff they work on, and both are around and repair mechanical equipment for a living. One on aircraft, the other road trucks.

I sure enjoy watching what you do to "our" old trucks, modernize them, and making them look purty.
So will try to slowly fade away, and let the next generation take the wheel, but now and then, throw a post in. I have lots of good memories with the same "girl" for 47 yrs, raised 4 onery kids, and life has been good. If I could do it over, I'd do it again.

GMCDAC: Hauling them like that has been history for many years. We had to stop at the state port-of-entries, and and get an Ag. exemption permit even back then. Probably cost $25.00 each rig.
I might be able to find a pic. of the '55, trailer/w propane nurse tank for combine and truck, with the truck and combine the second year I went. They both were converted to propane by then.

[Rockdriller]

Thanks, Yote.
We respect that.
Don't keep us waitin' too long.

[GMCDAC]

Yeah, I sure wouldn't mind you starting an old timers thread at all! I dig the history of darn near anything mechanical and rural!

DAC

[Rockdriller]

That's right.

I think I could read Coyoterun's history thread non-stop for days.
And of course....like he says..maybe some more of the Pioneers like 'Yote will pipe up and give us a history lesson.
I for once......, am the student in the front row...paying attention.

[BarryGMC]

This old 1950 Jimmy hauled a lot of rock up in Sitka AK. in the early 70's. here is a before and after shot of my grandfather Gordon Berglunds operation.

[Cayoterun]

What an improvement.
What kind of operation was it? I'm guessing a lumber mill of some kind, maybe?

The old Jimmy could probably tell some stories about the good drivers, as well as the bad ones, and some of the wild weather it busted thru.

It reminded me of the song by Red Simpson that tells the story from the truck's point of view. I think it's called "Hello, I'm a truck"

Thanks for posting, Barry

Found it!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLeae1KQSac

[BarryGMC]

Started as a little saw mill. But Grandpa and my great aunt Dorothy Darrin built it into a barge terminal. Its still there. its just north of Sitka. The two of them also had a quarry and crusher near by. So when grandpa had some spare time he filled in the area where the dock is. That old jimmy started hauling logs up north of there in about 62. 10 foot bunks 40 long. He then put a box on it and some bigger rears. It hauled rock until about 95 0r so. When he retired and moved back to Abberdeen Wa. in the 80's he brought it back with him. Near Aberdeen he used it on 80 acres of industrial land that he raised up about 8 feet, hauling fill from some land of his across the road. When he died in 07 the old 500 cube gasser still ran but a life on the washington and alaska coast had ate up most of the truck. Barry

[BarryGMC]

I have some more old truck pics from my family history that i need to dig up Here is my great grandfather Jacks 1927 white truck pictured in 1940 . He bought a section of Idaho white pine land near Elk city Idaho, and hauled his whole mill up there and cut pine for Diamond match Co. My surviving grandfather hauled over 1 million board feet of lumber to a rail spur about 15 miles from camp in the summer of 40 with that truck. He did this when he was 14. We still have this truck and it runs well. Hand crank start on that old guy. I am getting ready to rebuild the cab... Some day... sorry its not a jimmy, but I think it's cool. Barry

[GMCDAC]

This old 1950 Jimmy hauled a lot of rock up in Sitka AK. in the early 70's. here is a before and after shot of my grandfather Gordon Berglunds operation.

Wow! great pic! I recognise a 1960 Ford station wagon in the before pic---I think. What a change!

What an improvement.
What kind of operation was it? I'm guessing a lumber mill of some kind, maybe?

The old Jimmy could probably tell some stories about the good drivers, as well as the bad ones, and some of the wild weather it busted thru.

It reminded me of the song by Red Simpson that tells the story from the truck's point of view. I think it's called "Hello, I'm a truck"

Thanks for posting, Barry

Found it!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLeae1KQSac

Yeah wouldn't it be wonderful if those trucks could tell you even a little bit about what they've been through---Like the Red Simpson song! That was a great trip back too! Thanks for reminding me about that tune.

Started as a little saw mill. But Grandpa and my great aunt Dorothy Darrin built it into a barge terminal. Its still there. its just north of Sitka. The two of them also had a quarry and crusher near by. So when grandpa had some spare time he filled in the area where the dock is. That old jimmy started hauling logs up north of there in about 62. 10 foot bunks 40 long. He then put a box on it and some bigger rears. It hauled rock until about 95 0r so. When he retired and moved back to Abberdeen Wa. in the 80's he brought it back with him. Near Aberdeen he used it on 80 acres of industrial land that he raised up about 8 feet, hauling fill from some land of his across the road. When he died in 07 the old 500 cube gasser still ran but a life on the washington and alaska coast had ate up most of the truck. Barry

If it was still runnin' there's still hope to do something with it! Would love to see pics throughout it's lifespan.

I have some more old truck pics from my family history that i need to dig up Here is my great grandfather Jacks 1927 white truck pictured in 1940 . He bought a section of Idaho white pine land near Elk city Idaho, and hauled his whole mill up there and cut pine for Diamond match Co. My surviving grandfather hauled over 1 million board feet of lumber to a rail spur about 15 miles from camp in the summer of 40 with that truck. He did this when he was 14. We still have this truck and it runs well. Hand crank start on that old guy. I am getting ready to rebuild the cab... Some day... sorry its not a jimmy, but I think it's cool. Barry

No apology need for me, great truck and story. Would like to see more pics from this trucks history to now also!

DAC

[Cayoterun]

I've enjoyed this thread from the beginning.
I think every one of us has an appreciation for Jimmie trucks, or old iron of about any kind from the youngest member to oldest. It's obvious the younger ones like them, too, or they wouldn't be building them. Like Pepsi, (we've met him and his apprentices), his kids, and yours will cherish the early memories of helping their dad on his "old" truck, riding around with the wind blowing in their faces, and telling their adventures for the rest of their lives.
It not only helps preserve the trucks history, but family time together, also.

Great site, and people. Thanks, Jolly, Jennie, for riding herd on us, and GMC63 for starting the thread.

[BarryGMC]

There was lots of stuff from AK but a fire destroyed most of it. So very few pictures survived that. I thought long and hard about that old Jimmy. I am very sentimental and have a lot of things from my family history. But in the end the long years of salt exposure proved to be to much. I do have some pics of the construction of the docks I will get few up. There are some neat pieces of machinery in those shots. The White truck was left for dead in the early 70's at Jacks property. When he passed Grandpa saved it. I will get some current shots of it and see what else I can find. Barry

[George Bongert]

Greetings fellow Club Members!

These are really interesting pictures of the history of GMC! As far as I am concerned, the "new" glorified pickup trucks on the road just don't appeal to me, and aren't built like the "workhorses" of years gone by. On another note, Happy Thanksgiving to all!

[Rockdriller]

Quote " I am getting ready to rebuild the cab... Some day... sorry its not a jimmy, but I think it's cool. Barry "

The cool thing about that, Barry, is that In '82... I drove a straight truck that was a White/GMC.....joint venture type thing.
It was super heavy duty, tandem drives with a Roadranger. It was about a '74 or so and originally was worn out as a garbage truck....was stripped and made a flat-bed. She was a rough ol' girl.....but she had a little GMC in her, kinda like this one.

[GMCDAC]

Greetings fellow Club Members!

These are really interesting pictures of the history of GMC! As far as I am concerned, the "new" glorified pickup trucks on the road just don't appeal to me, and aren't built like the "workhorses" of years gone by. On another note, Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Yeah this is a great thread. The "new" trucks don't get me excited either. I enjoy driving them with the 4 speed non-power everything--including the steering and so does my wife! We enjoy the old ones that did have some of the convienences too but driving the ones that were primarily a workhorse is a gas!

Quote " I am getting ready to rebuild the cab... Some day... sorry its not a jimmy, but I think it's cool. Barry "

The cool thing about that, Barry, is that In '82... I drove a straight truck that was a White/GMC.....joint venture type thing.
It was super heavy duty, tandem drives with a Roadranger. It was about a '74 or so and originally was worn out as a garbage truck....was stripped and made a flat-bed. She was a rough ol' girl.....but she had a little GMC in her, kinda like this one.

There you go Barry, Rockdriller found the connection to post away on the White! I painted White/GMC signs for a heavy truck dealership I did work for back in the 80's!

Happy thanksgiving to all from our house!!!

Same to you and yours and everyone else on the forum, Cayoterun!

Happy Thanksgiving---DAC

[GMCDAC]

This may be getting too far from the subject but here are some pics of the GM Futureliners. There weren't many built starting in 1939 until around 1953. They were without a doubt a GMC! Designed for GM promotion, these trucks never had any other function. At one time a restored one of these held the Barrett-Jackson highest priced sale at over 4 million, once again don't remember for sure. I think an original AC Cobra beat it in the last couple years?

The first pic is the dash of an unrestored one, GMC logo is obvious.

DAC

[Cayoterun]

I'd like to see one up close, sometime. Thanks for posting.

[GMCDAC]

I'd like to see one up close, sometime. Thanks for posting.

You're welcome, Cayoterun. I noticed there are '55s in that last picture so they were in use at least up until then.

DAC

[GMCDAC]

Here's beautiful '66 I saw on Facebook tonight.

DAC

[FetchMeAPepsi]

Nice Red, Dac!

Tonight the Powder Puff and The Boy were watching old Batman reruns and guess what Mr Freeze is driving in Season 1, Episode 7?

Yep!

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[BillT]

Here's beautiful '66 I saw on Facebook tonight.

DAC

Beautiful example of a fine '66 4 X 4.

That sure would look real nice in my driveway, lol.

[GMCDAC]

Beautiful example of a fine '66 4 X 4.

That sure would look real nice in my driveway, lol.

Thanks Bill, I would be proud to have that GMC in the family too. Sorry I missed your reply until now.

Here is one that I felt would be good on this forum that I got from Facebook just tonight.

What does it take to haul Fords? A GMC of course!

DAC

[GMCDAC]

I quit doing these due to lack of interest but I love this pic from facebook tonight!

DAC

[Clarke]

I quit doing these due to lack of interest but I love this pic from facebook tonight!

DAC

OMG!!! Are those old timers actually smiling in that photo?!? Maybe that photo was taken post-Good-Ole-Days. ;)

[Ed Snyder]

I quit doing these due to lack of interest but I love this pic from facebook tonight!

DAC

Looks like the back of the cab was cut out of that truck.

[Clyde]

In 1964 I had a GMC 3/4T with an 8' camper and we took the back window out and could go back and forth while driving down the highway.

[GMCNUT]

I quit doing these due to lack of interest but I love this pic from facebook tonight!

DAC

Super love this picture. Wish I had that truck today. I am usually not a fan of the plain colors like solid White or this Tan color, but man that truck really makes that color look good to me....interesting

[6066gmcguy]

"due to lack of interest" this thread only has 7885 views, next highest in this section is 1600 views, looks like "lack of interest" to me.

Here are My historical photos of my old 1962 "Uber Rare" Suburban.

[GMCDAC]

The last post before yesterday was June 15th. That and many posts before that have little or no commentary. Sorry but number of views doesn't mean much to me.

Very cool '62 you had, some day I'm gonna have one in the family again, don't care if it's uber rare of common as heck!

DAC

[GMCDAC]

Here's another pic from back in the day, looks like it has the "Custom" trim. Ran across it on facebook tonight.

DAC

[Clarke]

Here's another pic from back in the day, looks like it has the "Custom" trim. Ran across it on facebook tonight.

DAC

Wow, what a clean one! Back in the day when you could leave the key in the ignition, radio on, doors open; without a dang dinger going off. :)

I see he has a piece of wood on the boat for mounting a motor. He must of hauled the motor inside the truck.

[David R Leifheit]

I don't have any photos "from the day" in my collection, but I can share photos of what used to be my fleet.

[David R Leifheit]

Part two:
these are "historic" for me since a little over half are gone now.
No picture of the '65 I had though. At one time, 1960-1966,1968,1969. Tried to collect a whole set.

[Ed Snyder]

Here's another pic from back in the day, looks like it has the "Custom" trim. Ran across it on facebook tonight.

DAC

Doug --

That photo of the guy camping reminded me of an old photo, probably taken back in the 1980s, of my Dad's one ton Suburban at his cabin on Beaver Lake, NW Arkansas. This is one of my favorite photos.

[GMCDAC]

Wow, what a clean one! Back in the day when you could leave the key in the ignition, radio on, doors open; without a dang dinger going off. :)

I see he has a piece of wood on the boat for mounting a motor. He must of hauled the motor inside the truck.

The only vehicle we have that dinger problem with is the wife's! Mine are too old--LOL! That's a pretty hi-res pic for facebook and I studied it enlarged but can't identify a motor but the gas can says there must be one in the truck.

Incidentally we still use one of those wide-visor Coleman lanterns just like that one!

I don't have any photos "from the day" in my collection, but I can share photos of what used to be my fleet.

Part two:
these are "historic" for me since a little over half are gone now.
No picture of the '65 I had though. At one time, 1960-1966,1968,1969. Tried to collect a whole set.

Thanks for those great pics of your GMC history David! I hope ones that leave your fleet are being brought back to life again. The '66 with the topper really grabbed my eye. I would like to have one from every era but that's pretty unrealistic! I need to fill the 60-66 void some day, to have 3 consecutive eras.

Doug --

That photo of the guy camping reminded me of an old photo, probably taken back in the 1980s, of my Dad's one ton Suburban at his cabin on Beaver Lake, NW Arkansas. This is one of my favorite photos.

Great place, great truck, Ed! I think I said before that the story that goes with your Dad's one ton combined with it being in the family still makes it about the best GMC time capsule ever in my book! Amazing truck!

Here's one from my past that recently surfaced from one of my sisters. This '60 in the background is responsible for my Mom's then my GMC addiction.
My Grandparents and I'm the kid behind Grandma. Probably taken 1960 or '61.

DAC

[Ed Snyder]

Great place, great truck, Ed! I think I said before that the story that goes with your Dad's one ton combined with it being in the family still makes it about the best GMC time capsule ever in my book! Amazing truck!

Here's one from my past that recently surfaced from one of my sisters. This '60 in the background is responsible for my Mom's then my GMC addiction.
My Grandparents and I'm the kid behind Grandma. Probably taken 1960 or '61.

DAC

Doug -- I suspect Dad took that photo the day he and my Mom moved into their new cabin. They hauled furnishings there from Wichita in the cargo trailer he was towing. They sold the cabin a few years ago. At ages 88 and 91 they don't travel much any more. I can't even get them to come out here to see our new house and garage.

That's a great photo of your grandparents with the '60 Suburban! Photos like that are priceless.

[GMCDAC]

Doug -- I suspect Dad took that photo the day he and my Mom moved into their new cabin. They hauled furnishings there from Wichita in the cargo trailer he was towing. They sold the cabin a few years ago. At ages 88 and 91 they don't travel much any more. I can't even get them to come out here to see our new house and garage.

That's a great photo of your grandparents with the '60 Suburban! Photos like that are priceless.

Thanks Ed, I'm very thankful my sister found that pic last year. We have no pics of just the truck, the 3 that turned up showing the whole truck have grandparents or Mom in them(avatar) and that one was damaged in a flood.
We had just driven from western South Dakota to north central Georgia in it in that pic with the grandparents.

That cabin looked like a wonderful getaway place! Maybe if you went and got them they would be ready to come out to your new place? If I remember right they recently had birthdays, your Mom on or around New Years Day? As always I wish them well!

DAC

[Ed Snyder]

That cabin looked like a wonderful getaway place! Maybe if you went and got them they would be ready to come out to your new place? If I remember right they recently had birthdays, your Mom on or around New Years Day? As always I wish them well!

DAC

Wow -- good memory, Doug! Yeah, Mom turned 88 on New Years Day and Dad turned 91 on Pearl Harbor Day.

I have thought about a long road trip with them, but haven't talked to them about it yet. They really like their own beds, having lived in the same house since 1960.

[GMCDAC]

Wow -- good memory, Doug! Yeah, Mom turned 88 on New Years Day and Dad turned 91 on Pearl Harbor Day.

I have thought about a long road trip with them, but haven't talked to them about it yet. They really like their own beds, having lived in the same house since 1960.

I'm glad to know they are getting along well Ed! I should have replied sooner but missed this post. I really can't blame them for wanting to stay home, but maybe sometime they would be up to a trip.

Here's another great GMC pic I ran across on Facebook tonight.

DAC

[GMCDAC]

Another from Facebook this afternoon.

DAC

[GMCDAC]

Well here's another one from Facebook tonight.

DAC

[Quigley]

Instructions that came with new Bat-O-Meter. $24.00 of Real money!

[GMCNUT]

Another from Facebook this afternoon.

DAC

WHOA - just noticed this postcard image of a Palomino Tan 62-63 Suburban has a 58-61 GMC hood jet on it!

[GMCDAC]

Another from Facebook today.

DAC

[WDShaffer]

Great read. Thanks guys. Do any of you know if design studio ideas were ever leaked to the public...that would be a neat compliment to this thread.

[GMCDAC]

From Facebook tonight. No info about the picture.

DAC

[Ed Snyder]

From Facebook tonight. No info about the picture.

DAC

Looks like Goulding's has been in business since 1923:

http://www.gouldings.com/tours/

Would be interesting to see photos of all the tour vehicles they've used over the years.

Here's a cool one: http://www.t137.com/archives/wwwboard469/messages/4691083.html

[GMCDAC]

Looks like Goulding's has been in business since 1923:

http://www.gouldings.com/tours/

Would be interesting to see photos of all the tour vehicles they've used over the years.

Here's a cool one: http://www.t137.com/archives/wwwboard469/messages/4691083.html

Thanks Ed, for some reason I get an error message with my old PC on the first link, but I did get a look at it on my newfangled android phone. Sounds like they have a lot of tour packages! That's a great pic in the second one! Pretty cool truck! It would have been a blast to ride in or drive that bus!

Hope your family is doing well and have a great Thanksgiving! Were you able to buy that '68?(I think it was a '68?)

DAC

[Ed Snyder]

Hope your family is doing well and have a great Thanksgiving! Were you able to buy that '68?(I think it was a '68?)

DAC

I had to go out of town on family business for a couple of weeks. Before I left I had finally (after trying to buy it for a year) negotiated a price with the owner of the '67. When I got back I found out that the bum sold it to somebody else while I was gone. Needless to say, I was not happy! And he refuses to give me any contact info for the new owner.

So if anybody out there has a lead on a nice half ton 2WD '67, let me know.

You have a great Thanksgiving too, Doug!

[GMCDAC]

I just had to post this pic I ran across on Facebook a week or two ago. That is one of the most macho trucks I've ever seen!

Photo credit is on pic.

DAC

[Ed Snyder]

I just had to post this pic I ran across on Facebook a week or two ago. That is one of the most macho trucks I've ever seen!

DAC

Reminds me of another macho truck, Doug -- same number of driven wheels.

[BillT]

I just had to post this pic I ran across on Facebook a week or two ago. That is one of the most macho trucks I've ever seen!

Photo credit is on pic.

DAC

That is one heavy truck. It's a 6500, believe it is a '62 which would be the first year for the 6500 and the 478 V-6 both.

Someone, possibly the owner himself, has posted it on the other truck site.

Beautiful shape to boot.

[GMCDAC]

Quite a long time back I posted a few pics of the Don Garlits GMC push truck. I ran across another one on FB tonight. The second pic is also from FB awhile back, from the "Historic Vehicle Association's" page.

DAC

[jbgroby]

I think these technically fit in the GM photos from history category. These are the factory clay mockups for preproduction on our models. I've only posted the one that I think really are different.

[jbgroby]

here are some more. I have a lot more and will create a photo bucket album. I find it amazine that they were planning the "flat Hood" as early at august 1960

[jimjaz]

Here is a cool one that I got from Ed Snyder several years ago.

[GMCDAC]

Those are great pictures Jake! Interesting V-6 logo on that second pic. It's amazing how much detail they put into models.

Jim, I think Jolly said Mt. Rainier is the backdrop of this cool shot!

DAC

[jbgroby]

here are some of the Chevy Concept truck for the same period.

Number 1 is well.... just ugly
Number 3 is a mix of 67-72 and a el-camino kinda look.
Pic 4 is a miss-mass of grill and headlight

[jbgroby]

some more

[WDShaffer]

WAAAAY cool guys; thanks for sharing.

[jbgroby]

I have about 40 pictures of each series just a lot of posting.

[Alister]

Here's a vintage ad from the February 14th, 1963 issue of LIFE magazine, promoting the V6s.

Enjoy!

[jbgroby]

Here's one off of the 67-72 bb that posted today, right up our alley.....

[GMCDAC]

I ran across this one on Facebook tonight. It's nice to see some new pics in this section!

GMC hauling hamburgers---LOL!

DAC

[BillT]

Here is one that I posted on another truck board and figured it would be one that you all would like here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sThNQFKflA

7sThNQFKflA

[BillT]

1966 GMC LT Truck Features:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUixD4_-b1o

VUixD4_-b1o

[jbgroby]

cool, thanks.

[Robert B.]

Outstanding pic! ‘62/‘63 maybe?


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[jaydee]

10 more ads with 401 v12 and desel engines with numbers
I have to say there aren't many trucks as good looking as a B model especially a tandem.