If this is cool, can we start a thread of your traditionally built Panel Trucks? Fords, GMs, Mopars, etc..... Anything you use to haul stuff, and it has doors on the rear. Heck, Sedan Delivers welcome too. The more period correct, the better Fellows and Fellett's!
My dad had a late forties International panel truck. I have posted on here before about finding it but current owner would not sell. Have always liked panels and sedan deliveries.
My Dad and I got this 1931 Deluxe “A”, back about 1965. Bone stock except for a Simmons Super Power cylinder head. My Grandfather hand made all new wood for the roof. Genuine 1968 Earl Scheib , two tone paint job. Really ought to get her running again…
I love these old haulers! I have a old 54 Chevy 3/4 ton panel at my dad’s house in Washington. I hope to start on it next year.
When it’s done it will be traditional. Found the body on eBay and the frame I found fifteen miles from my house. The frame was an old hot rod frame from back in the day
Hello, We lived in a neighborhood that bordered a huge industrial tract that ran from the L.A. River on the East all the way to the Terminal Island Freeway to the West and the LA Harbor/Terminal Island Channels to the South. PCH, Highway 101, was the main street border separating the housing from the industrial tract. The industrial tract is still there today and the smaller buildings still have some hot rod construction businesses and warehouses. The big names have closed or have moved elsewhere over the timeline since the activity in the late 50s and early 1960s. By the time my brother and I were into the hot rod/drag racing scene, it was fun to go over to the Santa Fe Importers as a lot of the local speed shops (Joe Mailliard, Clay Smith, Speed Engineering, and others) frequented the store for lunch. The original Mickey Thompson Enterprises Shop that was just around the corner street also were visitors to the Italian foods store/café. Even the Mickey Thompson Enterprise offices eventually were next door to the Santa Fe Importers. (1419 Santa Fe Avenue) This was the address of the last Mickey Thompson Speed Shop. Today, it is different company. Jnaki “…When we moved again to our last Westside house, it was now closer to the Santa Fe Importers. So, we were in a better location. The giant Bill Williams Welding Company was just in the next block, Joe Mailliard’s Speed Shop was around the corner, and they were all bicycle close. Our dad liked to visit his friend’s pool hall and bar (where I learned to play pool) across the Santa Fe Avenue from this Italian Deli. The Weber’s Bread Factory was also just across the street.” Of all the times we went to the store for great sandwiches and take out dinners, we saw this cool beige panel van with yellow rims and smooth small hubcaps sitting in the parking lot. But, we never gave it much thought. The odd thing was, we never saw it again, even during the numerous times we shopped and ate there. So, in my research, I only found one photo to show what we saw, but never saw again. Until 1998, when we sold our last, Long Beach house, we can attest to that great food, people, and fabulous, original, community Italian Deli. 75 Years and still going strong...! (Now, two other shops have been opened in Orange County) old Friday Art But, what happened to that cool GMC Panel Truck from the 1960s? Perhaps the same family running the store and the OC affiliates will know… The next time I am in the area and it is safe to wander around without worries of the pandemic, I will ask the manager of the original store. It is on Santa Fe Avenue (across the street is a Studebaker restoration shop/warehouse) and if I continue to drive North towards Los Angeles, I will drive right by the location of the Lion’s Dragstrip Museum 6 miles away. Which would be the destination of my next photo journey and information, post pandemic blues.
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