Thanks Jim

 

What's up with the 2 door taxi cabs? I would think that would be a pain to get passengers in and out on a regular basis like a taxi business would be, and 4 doors would be preferred.

 

 

 

 

Great batch Abe!

Bobby

 

Spam cans on the 54's! Love it.

 

Thanks Bobby. That's great praise coming from you!

 

Abe, nice mountain shot. How about that chicken truck. Pretty advanced for back in the day

 

This is from a book my brother wrote about our family history. This is our grandfather's first car.


The kid with his hands up is our dad

 

^^ Great family history!!! ^^

Thanks for sharing that. It makes these pics even better when you know a little bit about what's going on in them

Bobby

 

 

That's cool, Ken. Every family has one and it looks like your Dad was the show-off! Neat.

 

OK, Tom, I've thought about this. I've looked at the pictures again and again and I do not know what you mean by Spam cans. I sure didn't see any vintage cans of Spam...

And after much study, I think the two light blue 54's camping are the same truck. Turn signals were added. The tip off was this: look at the dent in the hubcap on the right rear fender.

 

I mean the windowless bed caps on those two different '54 trucks. I've heard the old timers refer to those as Spam Cans. You could put tools or sporting equipment inside with no prying eyes or weather intrusion. Your stuff is bone dry and out of sight. Windowless round-sided small trailers got the same name I think.

There was a ribbed bed cap of that type about 30 miles away where I'd go ice fishing. It was at a private camp and was used to cover firewood. Last saw it about 25 years ago, the camp traded hands and the whole yard was cleaned up and all the stuff including that cap was gone.