Has anyone seen this writing on a passenger door before?

I get It LMAO!! That takes me back to the old days

Maybe we should start an old geezer thread??

 

Since that door's been forced round on it's hinges, that's a TOTAL motorpool fix. They got the door so it would shut then stenciled that cause it was a permanent rig.

Those guys ain't bodymen. They're generally a bunch of teenagers trained to replace hubs on heavy equipment. No offense to the good ones, or the experienced veterans that lead the teenagers. But that's who they generally are........

cool car. Being a midwesterner I'd be tempted to put it on a 4x4 ch***is just cause it'd look right with WWII jeep tires.

 

No, It's an old prison car, back from the days when inmates were on the honor system.

 

i don't know yogi, the ranger (military guy in car) might be watching!
used to watch that all the time when it was on basic cable. i'm only 18!!!

 

There was a Naval Air Station in Hutchinson Kansas in the 40's & 50's.
Not to many oceans around there.

 

The Naval gunnery Range was a big operation out there on the SE Idaho desert before the Atomic energy Commision created the atomic energy research site. They had real destroyer guns mounted and would fire them at targets twenty-some miles away. Even now unexploded projectiles up to 3 feet long are said to be found in the desert.

Your car would not likely have any radiation on it because (1) the WWII-era Naval gunnery range preceded the INEL, and (2) They are very, very careful about safety and preventing/containing radioactive exposure to the environment. My F1 pickup, like I said, has Atomic Energy Commision lettering peeking thru a repaint, but I'm posting no picture because I want to preserve that lettering and am not ready to remove the protective layer of paint over it just yet.

The water basins on the site for Naval training using nuclear-propelled ship/carrier prototypes were hugh and were in enclosed buildings. In the seventies I had a job as a buyer for the refueling project ***ociated with a nuclear reactor driven aircraft carrier.

 

Okay, I'm varying from the military theme here, but I would suspect the car may have had brackets on the p***enger side to carry a ladder, pipe, lumber, or something else. Tradesmen didn't always drive trucks, they would drive anything they could get their hands on. The fact that it's stenciled could mean that it was part of a corporate fleet... big painting company? Big plumbing company?

I still see a few construction trucks running around with p***enger side racks that run from the front bumper to the back and carry 20' sections of pipe. And if you look at the rear edge of the p***enger side door there are ALWAYS chunks of paint missing from that dude who forgot there was something blocking the way, and opened it anyway.

Just my thoughts, but I'd start looking for evidence of something bolted to the bumpers or ch***is on that side that doesn't look factory.

 

Yeah, They really know how to mess with someones mind haha.
I would think its for commercial use? since its just stenciled on?

-Sam

 

Heard a story four or five years ago about a couple of guys from the Arco area that found some lead bars in the dump. They used them for weight in a race car. When they got really sick and started losing their hair, they found that the bars were radioactive... Didn't hear the outcome...

Pete

 

Sounds like an 'urban myth'. Lead bars were used alot as radiation shielding at the site, however, so who knows. There have been over two dozen reactors out there since the early '50s.

 

there is a Loran station on 95 on the way to Los Vegas ,talk about Coast guard in the desert

 

Infact it changed from the Army Air Corps, to the Army Air Force in 42. Still Army but its first step towards being an independent en***y.
Doc.

 

yeah, split bench for the rear access

 

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