I looked at that green truck and your right it looks weird
the Aluminum Bezels I was talking about are two holers
HooT 58 Chev
----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Lutes <lutes@fuse.net>
To: J Forbes <jforbes@primenet.com>; Old Trucks List
<oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] fleet GMC late 50s
> I lost the original message from Mark, but knew I had seen such a truck
> somewhere. Check PeeWee's awesome website, GMC pics page 4 about dead
> center. http://members.tripod.com/P-Wee/id122.htm
>
> Karl
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: J Forbes <jforbes@primenet.com>
> To: Old Trucks List <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 7:49 PM
> Subject: [oletrucks] fleet GMC late 50s
>
>
> > Hi, Mark...
> >
> > I've seen two of these trucks, both in Tucson in the late 70s. One was
> > owned by a fellow that my brother met at the computer store he worked
> > at, and we got some parts from one of his other trucks. I don't know
> > what happened to it. At the time I saw it, it was not running, he was
> > still working on it.
> >
> > The other one was parked at a lot (an old drive-in) on Miracle Mile. It
> > appeared in a movie (or possibly a TV show) about that time, I sure
> > don't remember the name, but it was filmed in Tucson. I wish my memory
> > was better, but 20+ years was a long time ago!
> >
> > I do specifically remember the grille, which looked like expanded metal,
> > curved out along the middle, with chevy parking lights....the dash,
> > which was Chevy but had the gmc logo on the plastic cluster window...the
> > single headlights, which looked funny in that big hole, they had a
> > different headlight door (bezel).
> >
> > Speaking of wierd GMCs from the late 50s, the truck I got the chrome
> > front bumper from (it's on my 59 ext cab now) was a 58/9 GMC Suburban,
> > from New Mexico highway department, at a truck junkyard in Tucson about
> > 1980. It had aluminum quad headlight doors on it! Not chrome, they
> > were aluminum. I didn't get them because they were torn up, or one was
> > missing, or somethign, but I do remember them being aluminum (they were
> > aluminum on cars starting in the late 50s).
> >
> > As for the 4x4 with stock steering...did you happen to check what
> > steering box it had? maybe it was original!
> >
> > It would be easy to use the stock steering column and wheel with a later
> > model gear, if you put a bearing at the bottom end of the column...
> >
> > Jim F
> > 59s in AZ
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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