[goatless]

Originally Posted by Alvin

'Nuther angle of same...vintage vehicles, vintage photo not so much?

That 4 door Luxury LeMans looks familiar. Belonged to a PYer?

[Alvin]

New 1963 Chevy "Jobmaster" truck sales lot. Note the COE in background.

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by Alvin

Pontiac in background

...and the Big Wheel has honeycombs...lol

[Alvin]

The way we rolled...we don't need no stinkin big rig to race!

[misterp266]

JFK in a '60.

[camerjeff]

Originally Posted by Greg Reid

...and the Big Wheel has honeycombs...lol

That's not a Big Wheel, that's a Green Machine! Rear wheel Steering!

[71GP76TA]

Originally Posted by Greg Reid

...and the Big Wheel has honeycombs...lol

That's a Green Machine.

[400 4spd.]

Originally Posted by Alvin

The way we rolled...we don't need no stinkin big rig to race!

Those Brits will do anything for a laugh!

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Alvin

New 1963 Chevy "Jobmaster" truck sales lot. Note the COE in background.

"Before" ('65's ?) on the back of a "Jimmy" vintage color photo

[Alvin]

Note the dual quad manifold on the "hoisted" George Follmer Mustang engine
take-out @ the "sanitary" pit conditions*


*paving was actual upgrade from dirt and gravel pits

[Alvin]

Could that be the back bumper of the "Grey Ghost" to the right?

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Alvin

Note the dual quad manifold on the "hoisted" George Follmer Mustang engine
take-out @ the "sanitary" pit conditions*


*paving was actual upgrade from dirt and gravel pits

Teammate Parnelli Jones Mustang #15 on track. I had a "Mustang Clubs Racing Team" color promo book back then...



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[71GP76TA]

Originally Posted by Alvin

"Before" ('65's ?) on the back of a "Jimmy" vintage color photo

I think those are 64's..

[Jack Gifford]

Originally Posted by Alvin

... Note the COE in background...

Probably called "cab forward".

[johnta1]

C.O.E.
Cab Over Engine:

[Alvin]

Noted corrected date and nomenclature. Thank you.

You may also be interested in the "Cab Over / Snub Nose Trucks" link

https://www.pinterest.com/joshgraham...b-nose-trucks/

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 71GP76TA

I think those are 64's..

My dad built and maintained the die that made those grilles (Chevrolet Flint Manufacturing - Pressed Metal Division).

Back then you could earn extra money by submitting ideas into the GM Suggestion Program. They had a lot of problems with the male portion of the punch breaking off and running scrap.

He made enough money through suggestions to pay cash for our new '69 GMC pickup.



K

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

My dad built and maintained the die that made those grilles (Chevrolet Flint Manufacturing - Pressed Metal Division).

Back then you could earn extra money by submitting ideas into the GM Suggestion Program. They had a lot of problems with the male portion of the punch breaking off and running scrap.

He made enough money through suggestions to pay cash for our new '69 GMC pickup.



K

Excellent inside info and story as always Keith. For conversation sake, what is the correct GM / Chevrolet designated identifier for the HD truck below?

No debate, flame, or agenda...simply would like to know.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Alvin

Excellent inside info and story as always Keith.

Thank you; just to expand on that a bit:

It was helpful if you knew how to "game" the system, if you were well liked and if you knew the approvers.

Dad and a couple other skilled tradesmen decided to form a team that would specifically be on the look out for good ideas and then go back, as a group, and corporately submit their Suggestion ideas into the proper channels.

This arrangement worked pretty well until one of the guys decided to go "rogue" and get all the Suggestion reward money for himself. He started taking the ideas from the group and then he would hurry back and write them up by himself and submit them under his name only. As you might guess, after he did this a couple times the rest of the group caught on and they were none too happy about it.

In order to retaliate they decided to write a series of bogus suggestions and assign this guy's name to them. They started out innocently enough, but since the "fake" suggestions continued to be accepted and implemented the suggestions got more wild and more outlandish as time went on. The creme of the crop was when they wrote a suggestion to remove all the stall doors in the restrooms out on the floor (to combat the skilled tradesman from reading while sitting on the pot) as a cost savings idea.

When this was followed up with a Suggestion to install "clear polycarbonate" doors on the stalls, also submitted under his name, the gentleman was called into the office and it was "suggested" that he not submit any more ideas...

Originally Posted by Alvin

For conversation sake, what is the correct GM / Chevrolet designated identifier for the HD truck below?

No debate, flame, or agenda...simply would like to know.

That looks like a series D60 with radiator shutters installed.

https://www.gmheritagecenter.com/doc...olet-Truck.pdf (see last page)

K

[Alvin]

Again, cool story Keith. The "1966 Snub-nose C60" below appears to have a "variant" grill "blue oval" stamping



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