1960 Harley-Davidson of Macon Delivery Truck

[GMCDAC]

Hi Greg, I was getting frustrated with my memory since you started talking about this type of literature for 1960. I could dimly remember a pamplet that I looked at many, many times from 1960 to 1964 or 5. It is the "operating" manual you posted above. It had been driving me nuts trying to picture it in my head again and thanks to you posting that great cover art, I will sleep better now! It was in the glove box of the 1960 Suburban in my avatar, and I loved looking at it! Wish I could help with the protection policy.

Thanks, DAC

[1960HDGMC]

Hey DAC, Glad that made your day. I have been offline with a dead modem for the past few days. I will keep looking for the 1960 OPP, so I can make my day. I think the 1960 and 1961 GMCs were the only years for the "Comic Book" manuals. They may well be the only comic style books in all of automobilia. I have never heard of such a novel idea for a manual from any other maker. Even among GM brands, there are no other comic type manuals that I am aware of, I mean of which I am aware. Thanks, Greg Mead

[GMCNUT]

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Hey DAC, Glad that made your day. I have been offline with a dead modem for the past few days. I will keep looking for the 1960 OPP, so I can make my day. I think the 1960 and 1961 GMCs were the only years for the "Comic Book" manuals. They may well be the only comic style books in all of automobilia. I have never heard of such a novel idea for a manual from any other maker. Even among GM brands, there are no other comic type manuals that I am aware of, I mean of which I am aware. Thanks, Greg Mead

So the Comic book style operator guides started in 1955 and ran through 1961. I have been steadily collecting each one of them (since I also collect 50's GMC's) and so far I have all of them except the elusive 56 & 57 ones. Here are some pics of the cool cover art found on the 55-59 ones. I will have to dig up my 61 copy and snap a shot of it for ya'll

PS - at first glance, its easy to assume the 59 & 59 copies are identical - but look at each trucks front bumper! That's right - 1959 marked the end of the iconic "bumper bombs" GMC was famous for in the mid-to-late fifties. So the cover art was altered to eliminate the bombs for 59, otherwise the contents of these two books is the exact same.

[GMCDAC]

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Hey DAC, Glad that made your day. I have been offline with a dead modem for the past few days. I will keep looking for the 1960 OPP, so I can make my day. I think the 1960 and 1961 GMCs were the only years for the "Comic Book" manuals. They may well be the only comic style books in all of automobilia. I have never heard of such a novel idea for a manual from any other maker. Even among GM brands, there are no other comic type manuals that I am aware of, I mean of which I am aware. Thanks, Greg Mead

I think the whole site was down for a couple days, was sure glad to be able to get back on! I'm going to print that cover and hang it on the wall if it's OK with you! That manual may be completely responsible for my GMC addiction so the marketing of the comic style pamplets had the desired affect for the GMC company!

I have a few 50's GMC dealer brochures that have the hand-drawn artwork and specs for larger trucks(not the comic style) and a 1967 one done in that manner also. I love that artwork too.

Thanks for posting yours too Steve! Amazing literature!

DAC

[1960HDGMC]

Hey DAC, Go for it. I want to get the cover and a few other pieces made into large prints to hang in the garage. I had the picture from 1960 of my truck blown up to poster size, at WalMart for 18 bucks. They use Fuji Film Paper, just like your normal prints. They do 18x24 for 12 bucks. That's a great size for the cover art prints. I wish you could get back to Jawja for the meet. I got creek kin in Early County (Damascus). The Alabama side town of Sheffield was founded by my moms ancestors. See if you can make it to the meet. Later, Greg Mead

[GMCNUT]

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Hey DAC, Go for it. I want to get the cover and a few other pieces made into large prints to hang in the garage. I had the picture from 1960 of my truck blown up to poster size, at WalMart for 18 bucks. They use Fuji Film Paper, just like your normal prints. They do 18x24 for 12 bucks. That's a great size for the cover art prints. I wish you could get back to Jawja for the meet. I got creek kin in Early County (Damascus). The Alabama side town of Sheffield was founded by my moms ancestors. See if you can make it to the meet. Later, Greg Mead

This is a great idea Greg - I may steal this idea and do one for my garage - there are a lot of 1960 GMC brochures and the operators guide that have great art but only in 8 1/2 x 11" and it has never donned on me to have any of that stuff blown up to bigger sizes.....this gives me a reason to go through my 1960 literature collection now and re-examine each one to see what would look cool as a bigger print....seems like I have an extra of one of the comic book operators guides so will look for that too

[1960HDGMC]

Hey Steve, WalMart Photo Department is the way to go around here. They do great prints on photopaper, at reasonable rates. The big poster I showed you of my truck in my garage was done there, for 18 bucks. The 18x 20 and 18x24 are 12 bucks each. This is the perfect size for this old material. The originals are of a limited DPI so to speak. Tag on 50 years of paper fatigue and the quality is even poorer. But a good clean example should do fine at 16x20 or 16x24. I even did a 16x20 of the wiring diagram, so I can SEE the dang thing. There are other great art potential hiding within the pages of the Service manuals too. I would upload some here now, but for whatever reason I am unable to get pictures to load on this site at this time.
The best original image yields the best print. So get your flatbed scanner glass cleaned, and scan your originals at as high a resolution as it will allow you. Anything above 300DPI will do for smaller prints. For posters, you really need 600DPI or higher to get a decent poster print. Given the option, use Fuji kiosks to input your prints. The other kiosks do not yield colors as well as the Fuji Kiosks. Hope this helps, Greg Mead

[GMCDAC]

Originally Posted by 1960HDGMC

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Hey DAC, Go for it. I want to get the cover and a few other pieces made into large prints to hang in the garage. I had the picture from 1960 of my truck blown up to poster size, at WalMart for 18 bucks. They use Fuji Film Paper, just like your normal prints. They do 18x24 for 12 bucks. That's a great size for the cover art prints. I wish you could get back to Jawja for the meet. I got creek kin in Early County (Damascus). The Alabama side town of Sheffield was founded by my moms ancestors. See if you can make it to the meet. Later, Greg Mead

Thanks Greg, your pics are easily large enough right from this site to print a pretty big pic! I will probably do an 8x10 though as darn-near every wall in the shop has some kind of stuff hanging on it--LOL!

Jawja!!!!-----I deeeeclayyyaaa!!!!! I spent many summers in Crawfordville as a kid and miss those days tremendously! Don't know if W.H. Crawford that started C'Ville in the 1820's is any kind of relative. Family wasn't aware of any connection either.

Me and the kids in 2003.

DAC

[1960HDGMC]

Hey DAC, What a great picture. Macon has the AH Stephens Magnet School. Crawfordville has the AH Stephens Academy. We got a Stephens County in Georgia after the "Recent Unpleasantness" ,I do Declare. I bet every town in Georgia had an AHS school in the late 1800's. Truly a great Son of Georgia. I have included the 1961 GMC Operator Manual Front Cover. Inside cover will not load. Aggravating. This apparently is the final comic book Operator Manual ever produced by GMC. When you remember where that 1960 Owner Protection Policy booklet is, please let me know, haha. Greg Mead

[GMCDAC]

Thanks, Greg, for the pic compliment and another scan of that cool manual! If I could find that protection policy I hope it is in that Suburban!! I would be keepin' it then!

Crawfordville is also home of "Liberty Hall" that was the home and is now part of A.H. Stephens State Park as you probably know. There is also the "Museum of the Confederacy" which opened in 1952. My aunt Laura Lee was stricken with polio in the early '30's and spent a lot of time at Warm Springs. Obviously she returned home mostly paralized but her expertise of the War got her the job of the first curator of that Museum when it opened, and she stayed in that position for around 35 years. When she passed in 1993 that was the last of our family in Crawfordville.

This pic is Laura in 1958 working at the museum and I'm the little shirtless kid in the background..

DAC