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Started by FABphones, November 20, 2020, 12:57:42 PM

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1940's Bell System Ad.

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Taken at Barrett Jackson Auction Scottsdale, AZ 2018

19and41

Nice looking truck.  Is that a correct color for it?  I only remember seeing the dark green telephone trucks around the time of that truck.
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SUnset2

#33
The color looks correct to me.  It is the Bell System Blue-Grey that proceeded the Bell System Grey-Green that they switched to around 1960.

Long ago, my father brought home a few cans of  the Bell System Blue-Grey touch-up paint that they were throwing out, after all the old trucks had been replaced.  He used it to repaint the peeling fake wood on the sides of his Rambler station wagon.

In a web search, I stumbled on a place you can order touch-up paint for the grey-green (but not the blue-grey):
https://www.paintscratch.com/touch_up_paint/Dodge/1959-Dodge-Trucks-Bell-System-Green-1641-1959.html

FABphones

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French trucks.
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oldguy

Thanks for the thread CJ. I like truck & telephones, so this it the perfect thread for me😀
Gary

FABphones

Quote from: oldguy on February 06, 2021, 11:04:11 PM
Thanks for the thread CJ. I like truck & telephones, so this it the perfect thread for me😀

:)

This next one is fun. Spares or Repairs.
(Or perfect as is, as a piece of art for the garage or phone room).
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Pourme

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The door, used in the properly displayed, would be a good piece to have.
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oldguy

Without seeing a little more of the front end I can't get closer than 1955-59 Chevy.
Gary

HarrySmith

Reminds me of the Corvair Phone Truck I had a while back. Same color, different logo.
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