Seen these sitting off the road between Marysville/Yuba City and Brownsville California while I was out there paying my respects to a fallen friend and visiting family two weeks ago…joe
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Wayne 1938 1-Ton Farm Truck Stovebolt Gallery Forums 1989 Silverado 1996 Mustang GT convertible When I die, I hope she doesn't sell everything for what I told her I paid for it!
Or company trucks for like the railroad or national parks
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Yuba City- - - -home of Sunsweet prunes- - - - -migrant farm worker transportation. Jerry
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Mark, I left in 1980, and the last thing I did west of the state line was get rid of a lot of excess liquid. It's a good place to be from- - - - -a long way from, that is! Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
I remember seeing the long burbs like that when I was a kid -- mainly around Logan Airport (Boston) and Portland. There's an article somewhere online about the company that did those conversions. But as I recall, they were primarily airport transportation as Wayne and Evan said above.
~ John
A kid raised on Hotwheels, Matchbox and Tonka cannot be reasonably expected to own only one vehicle as an adult.
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Thanks Woog -- Stageway was the one I was thinking of but couldn't remember....
I thought it would be cool to own one of those ... until I starting thinking about all the glass to clean (doggie nose prints ....)
~ John
A kid raised on Hotwheels, Matchbox and Tonka cannot be reasonably expected to own only one vehicle as an adult.
1949 Chevrolet 3804 In the Legacy Gallery | In the Gallery Forum 1973 IH 1310 Dump 1963 Kaiser M38A1 2001 International/AmTran RE3000 "Skoolie" 2014 Ford E-350 4x4 (Quigley)
In the late 1930's White made a bunch of tour buses for the National Park Service, sort of Suburbans on steroids. They were used at Glacier and Yosemite, and maybe a few other places. Since they had crash box transmissions, the drivers were known as "gearjammers". In the 1980's Ford took on a full restoration of a bunch of "Red Jammers" for Glacier, retrofitting the bodies to F-450 frames and running gear. They spent something like $200K per bus. I rode one on a tour of the park several years ago. Now they run gasoline/Propane V8 engines and automatic transmissions, but they still call the driver/tour guide a "jammer".
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I know this is an older thread but I saw one of these or similarities, can't remember if it was a burb or it coulda been a Biscayne or shoebox in a wrecking yard in Salem Oregon or south Keizer. Anyone on here from that area?
Going back to the original post, I have a friend whose family has lived in that area forever. I sent his dad that picture and he said they were bought new when they were building the Oroville dam to haul workers to and from town. They got auctioned off when that project was done and have been sitting pretty much ever since.
Apparently the guy had been trying to sell the pair for $9000 for a lot of years. Not sure if they are still for sale, but if so that might be a pretty solid price these days.
Going back to the original post, I have a friend whose family has lived in that area forever. I sent his dad that picture and he said they were bought new when they were building the Oroville dam to haul workers to and from town. They got auctioned off when that project was done and have been sitting pretty much ever since.
Apparently the guy had been trying to sell the pair for $9000 for a lot of years. Not sure if they are still for sale, but if so that might be a pretty solid price these days.
I know they have been sitting there for a extremely long time. My sister lives up in Dobbins and I want to say they were there in the early 80s when I visited her then. I know they were there 15 years ago when I was helping my sister on her property that year. And I’m sure I’ve seen him for sale several times over the years….joe
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