Multiples. Luck is allowing me to find multiples, such as the two ’64-ish Cadillac limousines and the three Dodge Omni GLH’s. But I never would have guessed on finding 17 similar ’60’s era GM pickups. Well, 17 is what I could count; can you find more? I can only find 2 GMC’s with the rest being Chevrolet’s. Most of them still look ready for a hard day’s work.
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I could spend a lot of time here just being lost and loving it. Good thing it’s not in Texas. I have enough distractions.
I’d love one of these for my 10 mile daily commute, along with hauling light crap to dump/from Home Depot and my sorties into the mountain biking trails!
Wow that puts most of us IH guys to shame.
It has always been my dream (nightmare?) to have enough cars so that I could drive each one only once a month. I guess this would be 31 cars. I would save major repairs for February where 3 of them would be out of circulation. I would, however, like a little more variety.
It would be a nightmare, trust me.
One for everyday of the week with a couple of spares for when one is down is enough.
I have a soft spot for ’60-’66 Chevy trucks. My relatives in Missouri usually had Mopar or Fords of this vintage, but in my native S.F. Bay Area, insofar as trucks were concerned, Chevies dominated. A neighbor around the corner had a ’62 C-20 with Powerglide that I remember seeing well into the early 1980s . . . . and a gaggle of personally owned, operated and fleet (private/city/county/state) Chevy trucks . . . our favorite Shakey’s Pizza had a ’66 Chevy C-10 . . . . and most of these were sixes/three on the tree trucks . . . .
Since I’m looking at them while still at work, to me they represent true residual value, the fine line between writing them off for scrap and selling them for something. I like them, I think I would actually pay more than what they could be worth in the books. Then again, that is how most people react when purchasing a car.
And I apologize for delving deeper in my work thought process, does EPA has them inventoried as part of vehicles in circulation? Probably not, but if anyone of CC’s best and brightest were to revive one or a couple of these, how would it be represented in EPA’s statistics? Surely there are other more important factors, but I still wonder.
The answer to your question will vary depending upon what state or country you live in. These were found in Missouri. In Missouri, the EPA is only concerned about sniffing your tailpipe in St. Louis or Kansas City. Everywhere else, such as the area I found these, you could take one of these and get the brakes functioning, all lights working, and steering and exhaust system in good shape so all systems pass a state-mandated safety inspection, and you can drive it. The feds don’t get involved as air quality isn’t a problem around here.
Since when does the EPA inventory vehicles in “circulation”? They just set rules and mandate areas that do not meet air quality standards to implement or increase emissions testing or use oxygenated fuel in the winter. The EPA does not regulate the actual state’s testing just that they do or increase it in one way or another if they continue to exceed the clean air standards.
States do keep a tally the numbers of vehicles and of course their age, that are currently licensed in their state. In CA you must register a vehicle as “no-op” to avoid annual licensing, lest they be subject to back registration fines before they are licensed in the state again. If they are sold and registered out of state or scraped then the fine does not apply.
You are right. They don’t regulate vehicles in circulation. They do keep statistics, and probably this may fall on another government agency, EPA just culls the data.
The question is, why where they mothballed?
I see one earlier wraparound windshield in the lot. For a while I owned a gray-primer 1960 Chevy long wide box pickup. It was a six 3-speed truck that had some kind of gimp-ass no-name tires on it. Three of them went flat in the first couple of weeks, one of which was perforated by the head of a flat-head screw. I got a fair amount of use out of it once it had decent tires on it, and a 283 V8 under the hood, salvaged from my dad’s 1957 one-ton crummy. I traded it on a 1964 230SL, but that’s another story….
It makes me think of a truck I saw for sale about a year ago. I was sorely tempted to buy it, even though I have no real need for an old, rusty truck or any truck. It was a gold ’66 Chevy Fleetside longbed with a 292 six. I wish I’d taken some pictures of it.
Brown recluse spiders a no charge option.
My shanty is swarming with them.
Our agreement is I do not bite them and they reciprocate.
I so identify with this guy! Look how perfectly they are lined up & all pointing the same direction. Although it’s possible that all of these were driven here, it’s not likely. I did the same thing, only with Pontiac Fieros. What a PITA it was to back them up against the fence straight. When I was done, it looked sort of cool although it was a completely pointless exercise. Of course I never took any photos. Even if I did, it/they would pale in comparison to this. Man what a great picture.
I would so love to have a huge poster of this scene hanging on my wall. My first choice would be one of the GMCs if it still had the V6.