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I love it! Do you still own this truck? Show us more of these pics!!
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I was there at the 1966 auto show at the McCormick pavilon in Chicago in `66..

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those are great pic's....brings back the good old days....

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here is my sons 1963....

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Heres some more original advertising

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Heres an old pic. I cant help it....but I guess he got tired? haha

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"Irony" - definition of.

K

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We still do.

K

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I agree.

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Bumping this thread with a link posted by a member in the 67-72 section. Cool pics. http://www.ultra-high-compression.com/fremont-tour.html

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Great pictures.

Bill

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man thats a great link....good read and pic's....

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I found this one interesting, a 60-63 (plant was built in 63, and this photo is from the construction) and this truck looks to have dual rear wheels and some sort of fender flare.....
pic is a little higher quality on oem's link---

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wonder if one of theses blue trucks is mine?

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I would be willing to bet my truck is in this lot of trucks, according to my records, my grandfather purchased his/my truck in the summer of 66 here in texas, it is a fully optioned factory air truck...wow...awesome pic, wish i knew for sure if my truck is in there...very cool to see.

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WOWZA, For some reason I thought that all the trucks were 2-tone with white tops but guess I was wrong..but those are waaaaaaaaay KOOL Pixs....

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Cool thread, just wanted to bring it back up.

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ttt

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Has anyone ever seen one of these "Seamist Jade" trucks? That looks like a sweet color.

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Or '64...?

Nice truck, either way...

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Or '65..? :)

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Getting this thread back on course

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This is a picture during construction of the Fremont plant. I did a Google search and found all of the plant assembly pics as well as drawings and printed them out. I keep them in a binfer for my 65 Suburban to show at car shows. Nect to this pic I have one of this water tower laying on the grpund duting the demolition of part of the plant.

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Noticed a pic I hadn't seen before on the above mentioned Fremont plant link.

Inspection time on a couple freshly built 64's.

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Thats a cool picture. Where did you find it? I need to print out one for my collection.

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Click on the link in post #210.

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Lots of great information here!! Thanks to everyone for sharing.

Les

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Seeing the Youtube slides reminds me of a really cool Chevrolet ad for the 65 Chevy cars: Nova, Corvette, Corvair and Impala. All done by the cast of Bonanza with actresses from Bewitched as well. Do a search under; 1965 Chevrolet ads.

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1960

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very neat GMC picture.. I guess these are leaving the assembly line.....

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Anyone notice both the '60s in this pic have '62-'66 hoods on them?
-Brad

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My dad worked in a GM dealers body shop and said in 62 you could not buy the 60/61 style replacement hood any longer from GM/chevy ....So when you see a 60/61 with a later hood they may have been hit and replaced LONG ago

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Yeah, there was a TSB about it--from what I've found, the hoods were very expensive to manufacture, so rather than keep making them for the crash replacement panel service, they just told all the dealers to replace them with the '62-up hoods.
I thought it was cool that those trucks in the pic seem to have exactly that.
-Brad

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Too bad tgere isnt any pictures of Suburbans and Panels being built. I have this one printed out and you gotta love the worker hanging the panel rear quarter...in one piece.

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It's been suggested this is a Canadian line. Interesting to note the variations from standard on this one truck. Grill and bumper paint, and two different tires.

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Are you sure those aren't 62s in the photo? When I look closely I think I see 62 grilles.

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Isnt this a chassis cab truck ? Im guessing its a special order paint. Mirrors extended pretty far out suggests something big for a bed on this one. Not sure but that line looks odd, looks like a Panel truck behind it , then maybe a 4x4 then a BIG truck coming around the corner. Just a thought but having recently purchased a GMC Civil Defense truck , the paint code under the hood is in chalk for blue but the main body has white in areas only done before assembly. It also has blue bumpers. Not sure if CD trucks were factory painted this way but it appears to be.

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Yep , and single headlights

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At one time , I had a fan deck of special colors GMC offered to it's fleet customers. If you bought a quantity , they would paint them right at the factory your colors and combinations.
You could specify tires for each axle and spare when ordering new.

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Big thanks oem4me for transferring this great photo to the assembly thread:metal:. I agree this must the Canadian line. American GMC pickups did not have series indentification emblems, the first truck has emblems on upper cowl ( '65 Chevy location) The absence of V6 emblems is more fuel for the argument, but not enough alone, since straight sixes were available in both American and Canadian '64-'65 GMC's. I also agree the first truck sports a special order fleet paint job.