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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 19 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 19 |
I saw one of the early 50's chevy ice cream trucks in a low rider mag.
how rare are these trucks and does anyone have one?
Ryan
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 27 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 27 | don't know about the rarity of the ice cream truck, recently saw a 57 Chevy 6700 that was a "Civil Defence" Truck on Ebay, thought that was pretty cool. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,383 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,383 | I've never seen one in person. I don't think there were very many when new so I imagine they're pretty rare.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 679 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2006 Posts: 679 | I remember seeing some posts here on Stovebolt about members having ice cream trucks and bookmobiles. Not very common!
Bill | | | | | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 19 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 19 | the ice cream truck I have seen was a truck front end with a open cab and a little box between the rear fenders,
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 143 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 143 | Ryan, those were very common in densely populated areas (Long Island, NYC, L A. etc,) but they were phased out in most places by the 80's. Hard usage, all idling and moving a block at a time, I'm sure they were mostly scrapped and replaced by the box vans mentioned above. They would be VERY rare now. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 |
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| | | | | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 5 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 5 | If you're talking about a "Good Humor" Ice Cream truck, they're worth big bucks. You can see them on ebay every-now-and-then. I just looked and didn't see any current or recently completed. But, if I remember right, they were bringing 20k restored. Good Humor had their own design on the bodies.
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| | | | | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 5 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 5 | Editor note: Links to ads go in "Ebay & Craiglist Links"
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| | | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,139 Authorized Pest | | Authorized Pest Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,139 | Here is Tom and Kathy Truhlar's Big Bar Ice Cream Truck feature story. This was a fun story to do! Peg
~ Peggy M 1949 Chevrolet 3804"Charlie" - The Stovebolt FlagshipIn the Gallery || In the Gallery Forum"I didn't see this one coming. I don't see much of anything coming. :-O" | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 | saw some die cast models of ice cream trucks that had ad front ends on them.they were good humor.and one of the cheech and chong movies they had an old ad ice cream truck think it was the 2nd or 3rd one.......dave
1949 Chevrolet 3100 "When this thing hits 88 miles an hour, you're going to see some serious sh%t." -Doc Brown
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | I used to buy Good Humor Ice Cream off those trucks in the 50s. They were white and didn't have those idiotic flap-out stop signs on them. A Popsicle was 5¢ and just about everything else was 10¢.
My mom would get a Popsicle and break it in half for me and my sister. | | |
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