The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk How many panel trucks as work trucks out there?

I have a friend that thinks he is the last person in the country (USA) still making his livelyhood out of an Advanced Design panel truck.
He is a mechanic and does mobile repairs and firmly believes that there isn't another person in the country still working out of one of these panels.

I say there is.
Anybody on tis list using your panel as a regular work truck?

There is a sign painter in town that has a slammed pale yellow one he works out of everyday.
I regularly see him smiling and hauling butt.(along with a few cans of paint)

how about this one
or maybe this one
or even this one
always gotta be careful about "firm beliefs"

I used a 57 panel in my biz for about 15 years, until the frame got too rotten ... hope to have another 57 finished up onea these years

Bill

I do use mine for pulling or hualing stuff around but not everyday. On sundays it's off to the car show. It stays parked for winter and I'm also very carefull not to damage it.


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there is a pic of a '51 panel on the front cover of the Golden State Parts catalog (Golden State Parts, Carson City, Nevada...'47-'72 Chev./GMC truck parts) Said to be used daily by a bakery.

I knew a guy in Tn. that rebuilt Jukeboxs, he had a yellow AD panel he used to haul them in, he also had another AD panel out by the barn. I think he sold both of them in 88 though.

I drive my truck on a daily basis. I haul various things with it. I will be using it to haul the latest addition to my collection. A 1957 Chris Craft Barracuda. It gets driven hard. You may want to forward this thread to your friend. There's still alot of old Panels performing their daily "business".

JS

Tell him he is driving a late model to work. I routinely use my 46 panel on the job. It is much more user friendly than my modern truck.

There is a 1-ton panel still in regular use by a contractor about 50 miles from here. I see it often when I drive through that community.

There was a pin-striper working out of one in Oregon until recently. I saw his truck for sale on eBay so I assume he isn't using it any more.

I drive my '62 Suburban every day, haul parts with it all the time, used it last weekend to pick up 800lbs of QuickCrete sacks, drove 116 miles round trip three days this week to a shop for pictures, and use it once a month to haul all my gear (tents, tables, coolers, chairs, signs, etc.) for the swap meet I promote.
Once I get the brakes upgraded to power drums, get the wiring replaced and get a new receiver hitch on it, I'll be towing my open race car trailer somewhat regularly.

And along the way, I'll keep upgrading it.

Your buddy is pretty cool for working out of his truck, but the only one in the country? Hardly. In fact, the guy I bought my Suburban from was an on-sight equipment mechanic, and had a Snap-on tool chest in the back, tack welded to the metal floor just inside the door opening. And yeah, he used it every day.

Brad

We'll you Bolters won't believe it but one of my main reasons for not completing my 55' cameo is I like working out of it on the weekends to haul stuff from Home depot and Lowes.See once I complete the truck no more hauling building materials.

Truckasaurus,

Let your friend down easy (if he is the kind of guy that understands facts). He should be congratulated for being proud about running a working A-D panel truck.

Any chance he or you will post pictures?

Happy Holidays,
Tim

Thanks for all the replys.
He seemed happy to hear there were other panels still in use as work trucks.
I'll get some pics.
His truck has been in continuous use by him for 30-35 years and it has a working truck patina right down to seeing the cross hatch of layers in the bed wood from years of sliding stuff in and out of it.