kentvw

She's a beaut!

I've seen pictures of the old Chevrolet Suburban service bodies - I'd love to get one of those old ones... if only I had the $$$ to restore it!

Cooool!
I bet if you drove such a car to your service calls your customers would be quite impressed!

Here about every contractor had a Volkswagen van back then. In the 1970ies Toyota LiteAce started to come up. When I was a kid in the 80ies and early 90ies about every plumber, sparky,... drove at least one white or yellow LiteAce. Some of them (or hould I say surprisingly many) are still around.

Ah yes the Toyota's.
I drove a 79 yellow toy p.u. that had a double cab on it as a company truck. Man was that thing ugly!

kent and electure — Not only is that a wonderful old worktruck photo, but so is the background… It matches the period to a tee.

[Again, SoCal Edison’s on-location services did a fantastic job. As promised: “we have the perfect exterior to match the scene…” ]




[This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 04-28-2004).]

I think Toyota made different models for the US market. Ocasionally a US version would make it here. They were definitely ugly. Huge, bulky and they drew more fuel than even most US cars back then.
I really like pre-WWII and 50ies US cars, but IMHO most later cars have had a tendency to be bulky and huge, without proportions. There are a few exceptions, of course, but I just don't likemost of them.
That truck in the picture is a really cool car.

This pic was taken around 1974. The location was my brother-in-laws ranch near Bozeman, Montana. I worked for him in the summers during highschool and he bought me that truck as part of my summers wages. (Driving age at that time was 15.) I was in heaven having my own wheels. I had orange shag carpet in it (Roof liner too.) and of course my 8 track player.

Bjarney,
You'd better be careful, or I'll tell everybody that you live right across the bay from San Francisco...Oops

The first work truck I drove, at 17, was a '61 Chev, 6cyl (4 or 5 cyl worked on a good day) stick shift, backfiring, stick between gears, carb catching fire, stalling bomb on wheels lettered with "Unit #7".
It wasn't even a week until I found out that there was no "Unit any other number".
They ran their whole company on this type of a semi-fraud...S

KentVW

Wow Scott,
She's a beaut!.

Kent...
That International is a sweet ride! My first truck wasn't quite as special.. I bought a new 93 Nissan pickup at a year end "blow out" sale from a local dealer for $5500.. Added nice rims, stereo, bedliner, rack, & Mc Welco toolbox.... 7 months later some old guy decides to cut across 4 lanes of traffic to get in a turn pocket.... He didn't make it

-Randy

Trumpy,
It's not my car, I just put the picture up for KentVW. (My wife's got a new Honda Accord and it's far from paid for.)

Kent, the clean garage is quite impressive!