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Re: [oletrucks] Window statics and my brush with temptation

To: bgibson@internetwork.net (Billy Gibson)
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Window statics and my brush with temptation
From: Tom3600@webtv.net
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:37:45 -0500 (CDT)
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HooT -

I agree,  lets go with one Art Deco, one Advance Design, and one Task
Force pickup unmodified stock photos/drawings together in one scene.  I
have a reproduction of an old "Chevrolet Super Service"  clock with all
three and it is kinda cool.


Tom Poterack
Moline, IL.
'49 Chevy 3600
http://www.chevytrucks.org/users/wayne/tom49.jpg


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Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Window statics and my brush with temptation
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:43:23 -0500
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Reply-To: "Billy Gibson" <bgibson@internetwork.net>

I have a question
If the sticker say's 1941 to 1959
why don't have the pictures be
1941 and 1959??????

Just a question please don't shoot me
H@@T 58
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From: Bill Bailey <billb@gamewood.net>
To: oletrucks <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 7:24 AM
Subject: [oletrucks] Window statics and my brush with temptation


> Funny thing..I never noticed that the AD truck in the sticker has rally
> wheels and I look at that thing every day in the back window of my 57...
> The only thing I would like to see on a new ones is that they show up
> better because you can't see them at all on a tinted window like the one
> in the back of my 98 Silverado.
> Stock..rod...one of each please ;)
> I almost bought another toy last week. It was a 49 1/2 ton, that had
> been rebuilt several years ago. Good paint..ran good..and it was stock
> save for a early 60's 235 and a *very* oddball wiring system that
> incorporated the 6V system for all the truck functions and a 12V battery
> (under the DRIVERS side floorboard) that ran the stereo. I would have
> just taken that out and changed the whole mess over to a new harness and
> a 12 system. All of this for the asking price of 2900 dollars. I had a
> lot of soul searching to do ..I knew if I bought this truck then my 57
> project would die. I know myself that well. It didn't help any that my
> friend the F100 man was tempting me like the Devil himself. At any rate
> I made the decision to pass it up, a decision I am sure that I will
> question for a long time. But at any rate the 49 has been sold now an I
> will continue on with ol rusty, maybe someday I'll have something I can
> be proud of. Time will tell...
>
> tcape wrote:
> >
> > Hey, we're starting to sound like Star Trek........"We're having trouble
> > with the Klingons!"  I remember when we were discussing the design on
the
> > old sticker a couple of years ago.  Same issue....rod vs. stock.  We
finally
> > settled on one of each.  Perhaps to resolve this issue, we do need a
"STOCK"
> > version and a "ROD" version.  However, will this increase the cost to
the
> > point that it's not feasible??  Guess we need to hear from the folks who
are
> > looking into getting the stickers made.  Thanks guys!
> > Tom Caperton
> > 47-2nd 3100....in Whiteville, NC
> 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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