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down on the street

1965 Chevrolet C10 Pickup Truck

While we saw a Chevy truck about a month ago, the most recent Chevy pickup truck was way back in February. So today we're going to head over to a part of Alameda I've mostly ignored in this series (save for the '72 Mercury Monterey): Bay Farm Island (if you're an Alameda old-timer) aka Harbor Bay Isle (if you prefer a name made up by the developer that built a lot of tract homes there in the 80s). While technically part of Alameda, BFI/HBI (which is not really an island; it's on the mainland, adjacent to the Oakland airport) was mostly built up after World War II, and thus most of the houses have garages. That means the pickings are slimmer for street-parked old cars... but they can still be found!
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9:00 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Murilee Martin
957 views, 26 comments

Latest by HUMONGUS: Bought a 67' Chevy with a blown 283 from a farmer, had wooden racks stuck in the sides of the bed and totally messed-up seats. Was going to stick a 350 down in it but found a rollover 1972 Olds more »

choose your eternity

Project Car Hell, 80s Subaru Edition: BRAT or XT6?

We saw the Gremlin beat the Spirit by quite a margin in our last Choose Your Eternity poll. Maybe it was the Wayne's World connection, or maybe it was just the obscurity of the AMC Spirit. Either way, we're going to follow up a pair of quirky American machines with a pair of equally quirky Japanese machines. Sure, Subaru is plenty mainstream in North America these days, but remember when Subarus just seemed vaguely weird, say a couple decades back? When you only saw the little boxer-powered cars in areas with huge amounts of snow and NPR listeners? Those 80s Subies are semi-rare and quite cool, not as bulletproof as your Japanese Big Three machines of the era, and parts are getting tough to find... which makes them great raw material for your exile adventures in the garage!
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5:20 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,506 views, 58 comments

Latest by FuzzyPlushroom: Holy shit, it's a tie. The XT6 has always been one of my favorite cars for some inexplicable reason. That, and the famous advertisement: "I thought we agreed you'd buy a Subaru." "But, Dad, I did." more »

down on the street

1941 Chevrolet Pickup Truck

Here's a truck I'd been seeing around town for months, but was never able to capture holding still long enough to photograph for this series; another such vehicle is a powder-blue BMW 1500 that taunts me on a regular basis. Clearly, the owner of such vehicles drive them every day (very much in the spirit of DOTS) but they park them on obscure streets or- worse yet- in garages. Thwarted! Finally, I spotted the ol' green Chevy truck parked outside a popular dog park in the island's West End.
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9:00 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,968 views, 48 comments

Latest by FuzzyPlushroom: @Paul Y. is Going Dumb at the Sideshow: Aye, same here. Shame really - there's a '48-'52 Ford pickup, a nice Porsche 914, and a few other neat autos around. Love this truck... Missing hubcap makes it even better. Great color more »

down on the street bonus edition

Bay Area Train Commuters Prefer Vintage Iron

When you're having a quinto-Belvedere tailgate party at the Oakland Coliseum, you pay to park in the official stadium lot, but when you're swilling cheap beer and wolfing chile verde burritos prior to sneaking into the good seats with your bleacher tickets watching a ballgame from the bleachers, you don't want to pay to park your car. That's why me and my cheapskate friends park in the free Coliseum BART station parking lot for most games, where we often have the opportunity to admire vintage machinery driven by commuters. Some of you may remember the Menacing Bee Van from last year, and here we have a quintet of other interesting rides spotted in the same lot. Apologies for crappy phone-camera image quality.

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4:00 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,045 views, 34 comments

Latest by GTBruiser: @beercheck: My 75 was a dark green metallic, plaid seat(ed), vinyl roofed, hatchback, with 8-track, CB radio and a Sears Tower sized spring mounted antenna bolted to the hatch. more »

down on the street

1962 Dodge D100 Pickup Truck

With all the vintage GMC and Chevy trucks on the streets of Alameda, I need to be sure I don't neglect the Fords and Dodges when DOTS Truck Monday rolls around. We had a '64 Ford F-100 recently, but it's been several months since our last Dodge pickup. This '62 seems to be a work in progress, since it seems to alternate between being up on jackstands in the driveway and parked on the street with a drain pan under the engine. I'm not sure whether it moves under its own power or gets pushed between the two locations, but these trucks are so simple that it shouldn't take much longer before it's driving regularly.
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9:00 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,204 views, 40 comments

Latest by jack_pine: Here's some pictures of my 1964 Stepside. The dash on these is really cool. Way better than the 1965-up dash which uses the speedo that was used through 1972. MINE has a Hemi... [www.flickr.com] more »

classic ad watch

Wide Plains, Road Trains, A Whole New World Ahead Of Me: Toyota Of Australia

American automakers aren't the only ones who play the bechmaltzed patriotism card in their ads, nor even the only ones who break out the mawkish country music in those ads. Here Toyota is letting Australians see how loving their land is the same as loving their Toyotas. It's not quite Morning In America, but it's striving for the same lump-in-throat effect.

1:00 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,645 views, 26 comments

choose your eternity

PCH, Packard Eight Swap Edition: 1937 Pontiac Sedan or 1929 Ford Truck

Well, whaddya know- an American Hell Project beat a French one in our most recent Choose Your Eternity poll, with the Malaise Corvette Limo winning by a small- yet significant- margin over the V8-ready Peugeot 404. Unprecedented! We need to honor this tremendous underdog victory by going with an all-American matchup, with a 71-year-old car taking on a 79-year-old truck. Not only that, to honor the amazing Packard Straight Eight we saw in today's Engine of the Day post, each of these projects must be viewed as the potential recipient of a supercharged Packard inline eight engine. So forget those small-block Chevy engines that come with 'em, because the Chevy is just too easy.
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5:20 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,711 views, 30 comments

Latest by FuzzyPlushroom: @grrrr: That's what you get with the Ford... well, minus the suspension, maybe. more »

retro

The Peugeot 504: You Know You Want One

Even though I've owned a Malaise Peugeot 504 and occasionally wake up screaming with Peugeot Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PPTSD), I'm on board with the official pro-504 Jalopnik position. Any car that can be fixed by a Senegalese mechanic equipped with 15% of a Taiwanese socket set and a big hammer is OK in our book, and the 4x4 pickup truck version just makes it that much better. That's why it made our day when arch-tipster Franzouse sent us the Dangel Sales Brochure (warning: 2.5MB PDF download). When you're done reading that, be sure to check out the rest of the 504 Pr0n at the 504.org site. [504.org]

2:00 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Murilee Martin
962 views, 21 comments

Latest by Futrell: I had a '74 504 Diesel as well. It was my first car. I can attest to both it's lack of power, strange controls, and supreme comfort. Sadly, it's lousy head gasket ended up being the death of it.Every time more »

down on the street

1983 Toyota 4x4 Pickup Truck

Our last Japanese representative on DOTS Truck Monday was the '80 Plymouth Arrow, but the last one actually bearing the name of an overseas manufacturer was the '74 Datsun of a couple months ago. That means we're due for another Japanese Truck Monday, so let's take a look at this fine tape-striped Late Malaise Toyota pickup. Oh, sure, these things are still everywhere (including the motor pools of every strongman, warlord, and wannabe Lord Humungus in the world), but immortality shouldn't disqualify a vehicle from Down On The Street!
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9:00 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,106 views, 67 comments

Latest by rockalot: These trucks are popular with the Rock Crawling crowd, primarily because they come with a straight axle and are fairly inexpensive to modify. Here's mine :) [www.creationnonstop.com] more »

found on ebay

Europe Fires Caminoization Salvo: 500SEpage, Silver Shadowamino!

The Murfreesboro Vanden Plaschero inspired a lot of discussion about the pros/cons of Americans hacking up fine European machinery in order to add pick-em-up truck beds. Don't forget, though, that Europe itself has a fine tradition of Caminoization stretching back for many decades. Take, for example, this pair of fine Old World cartrucks. We've got a 1982 Mercedes-Benz 500SE with pickup bed from Germany and a 1977 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow on a Dodge truck chassis from the Netherlands. Which would you drive? Make the jump and do the voting thing! Thanks to Martjin and Sasho for the tips.

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8:00 AM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,535 views, 68 comments

Latest by cats4rent: you could pick up three or four fat chicks at a time with the rolls. i wonder if they could ship it in time for the state fair? more »

found on craigslist

Don't Have Time To Build Your Own Jaguar Vanden Plaschero?

Let's say you saw the PCH Jaguar XJ-Schero the other day and said to yourself: "Damn, I sure would like to have a Jaguar with a truck bed to haul parts, but my ZIS 112 project takes all my time!" We understand your dilemma, and that's why we've found this 1986 Jaguar Vanden Plas with a very nice pickup bed conversion for you. The seller wants a cool 13 Gs for it, but not to worry- he or she will take your unwanted pontoon boat in trade! Thanks to splacid for the tip.

[Craigslist Nashville, go here if ad disappears]

7:30 AM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,664 views, 58 comments

Latest by Jeb_Hoge: Ohhh, I would buy this thing in a heartbeat, maybe even plan a swap from the 305 to something with some more balls. I might even pay asking, if I had the scratch and it was a properly sorted conversion. more »

down on the street

1964 Ford F-100 Pickup Truck

Up to this point, we've had one three-time DOTS vehicle owner, WhatWouldJesseDo, with his Mini, Bluebird, and Puma appearing in this series. Today we're adding another Triple DOTS Club member; the owner of this very rough Ford truck also owns the equally rough '61 Thunderbird and '70 Impala. All three of these fine Detroit machines park on the same parking-challenged block, being moved as needed to avoid street-sweeping tickets.

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9:00 AM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,625 views, 39 comments

Latest by null: Comment on 1964 Ford F-100 Pickup Truck HI.Do you have or know where i can get a good condition tailgate for a1964 250 3/4 ton truck Many thanks GARY.. more »

down on the street bonus edition

Yet More Vintage Machinery From Denver's Streets


When you see "Denver" in the title, you might figure you're looking at more shots by prolific DOTSBE photographer Kitt. But hold on- now we've got two readers shooting interesting vehicles on the streets of John Fante's hometown. We've got Kitt covering the south side of town and ejacobs working the northwest neighborhoods. He's already sent in several sets of photos, and we're going to start with this International Harvester KB-3 pickup, built during the 1947-1949 period. Looks like Denver is trying to match Alameda, one vehicle at a time!

3:00 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Murilee Martin
880 views, 28 comments

Latest by Stoatmaster: @DoggieDaddy(Star Whore): Why? more »

classic ad watch

Nissan Pickups For 1985: Major Motion!

After a decade of their vehicles getting vandalized by enraged Rust Belt residents whose local economies were failing faster than the mechanical components in a Ford EXP, Japanese automakers figured they'd better start working on the whole image thing; you know, associate their products with wholesome values from the American heartland, that sort of thing. Toyota went with the happy American farmers schtick in '85, and Nissan decided to break out a rodeo theme for their trucks the same year. The "Major Motion" slogan seems to have been a short-lived one for Nissan- anyone remember it?

12:00 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Murilee Martin
988 views, 18 comments

Latest by gagray: Traded my 78 Caprice for one...my best man worked at the Datsun/Nissan store and delivered it to the church. White King Cab.. Drove it daily for ten years. Gas. Oil. two sets of Bridgeston tires. That's it. Like a Briggs and more »

el camino

South Africa Gets Opel Corsaminos!


Let's say you're in South Africa and you just can't get your hands on a good vintage 1956 Mercedes-Benzamino (or, in the local parlance, a Mercedes-Benz Bakkie). Fortunately, The General sells a Gamma-platform-based bakkie known as the Opel Corsa Utility. Sure, it's front-wheel-drive, but it's a factory-built car with a truck bed nonetheless. Thanks to Franzouse for the tip! [GM South Africa]

8:00 AM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Murilee Martin
962 views, 38 comments

down on the street bonus edition

A Quartet Of Chevy Pickups Down On The Denver Street


Since Truck Monday has been a Down On The Street tradition for quite a few weeks, we might as well extend the concept to DOTS Bonus Edition. And who else but Denver's Kitt could go out and find not just one but four cool old Chevy pickups for us? We got what appears to be a '69, a '70, a '72, and a '77, each earning its keep in the 5280. It's a Quadra-Truck-Stravaganza! Make the jump to see four- count 'em, four- additional galleries!

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1:30 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Murilee Martin
781 views, 30 comments

Latest by shoeless: Meh, the 60-66's are where it's at. Especially the 60-63 with the wrap-around windshield. more »

junkyard find

This Gladiator Has Fought Its Last Battle


Big, heavy-duty trucks usually manage to evade The Crusher's jaws for more years than most cars, but eventually some expensive problem or accumulation of parking tickets catches up with the best of them. Such is the case with this 1968 Jeep Gladiator J-3000 pickup, which I photographed at a local wrecking yard last weekend. The junkyard marked it as a 1968 model (and an "AMC Commando" as well), but I believe it's actually a '66. Check out that AMC 327 engine, which is not to be confused with the Chevy engine of the same displacement.

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1:00 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,427 views, 33 comments

Latest by holocron: The front seats of that thing look the same, and about as comfortable, as my 1998 Jeep Cherokee Classis. more »

maximum el camino day

Factory Benzaminos For South Africa!

Technically, the pickup truck version of the Mercedes-Benz 180D, built during the 1956-58 period for the South African market, wasn't a factory Benzamino (or should that name be Mercedampage, given the later association with Chrysler?), but we figure it's close enough for our purposes. 400 Mercedes-Benz 180Ds with no body behind the B pillar were imported to South Africa to have the beds installed locally, and they were promptly dubbed "Bakkies" by the locals. You can read about a Bakkie restoration project here, or wish for a time machine in order buy this one that just sold on eBay. [MBZPonton.org]

1:00 PM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Murilee Martin
581 views, 12 comments