Does anyone have this back issue of "This Old Truck", that you would be
willing to either sell me or photocopy the article for me. I'd really like
to see the info that Whitney Haist wrote about.
----- Original Message -----
From: "W&D" <haist@jps.net>
To: "Mark Self" <markself@discover.net>; "Oletrucks list"
<oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] More ID number / Oakland Palnt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Self" <markself@discover.net>
> To: "Oletrucks list" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 6:52 AM
> Subject: [oletrucks] More ID number questions
>
> > Here's my new question. Is the Oakland assembly plant still being used?
> > Was it just a pickup plant, Or was it for all trucks?
>
> I grew up not far from the Chevrolet Oakland Plant and remember the
awesome
> industrial complex when I was a kid. A few years ago my curiosity took me
> to the Oakland History Room at the Oakland Public Library where I dug up
all
> kinds interesting stuff on this place. The results of my efforts were
> published in THIS OLD TRUCK in the Sep / Oct 1997 issue and in PICKUPS 'N
> PANELS a few monts later.
>
> Here's the Readers Digest version:
> In 1916 it opened for production.
> In 1936 additional space was acquired for the production of trucks and
GM's
> Pacific Coast Parts Warehouse.
> In 1963 the plant went toes up and the property was redeveloped into what
is
> now Eastridge Mall.
> Today, I would not go there alone or ever at night.
>
> That's progress, I guess.
>
> >
> > When the number tells us that this is the 516th in the series, does this
> > mean the H or 3100 series, of any trucks made in this plant, all trucks
or
> > all Chevy vehicles for the year in all plants?
> >
> It means at the "O" (Oakland) Plant only..
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> <><
> Whitney Haist
> Orinda, CA
> Chevy Trucks: 2-'46s & a '39
> (2 from plant 5, Oakland, CA)
> www.jps.net/haist/artdeco.htm
>
>
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