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Michigan winters and the salt really takes it toll on Dailey drivers, I’m sure rust is what lead to it’s ultimate demise. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I like how the scallops fade, also the chrome wheels with no caps or spiders. They lend a certain “all business” look to it. Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Slightly o/t but after I moved back to Michigan in '88 I became a on-call firefighter with the City Of Novi. Second station I was assigned to had a '71 Ford tilt cab pumper. Department rules that if a truck ever left the bay it was washed once in came back inside, one time we were cancelled before we even hit the street and we washed it. Anyway, one day I am wiping it down and start looking at the painted pinstriping. At one end of it in small lettering was "Hatton".
Delivering 55-57 chevy parts for G&L auto salvage in ElCajon, California back in the 70s I drove the company green 60 ElCamino. The 235/3 speed was a snoozer but everybody looked.
As promised, here's the door as it looks today. Paul's son, Brian, sent me the picture as well as some additional information. This is the door! Dad put this design on before he repainted the scallops in all green. You can read enterprises under the white. He sold it to Jim Haverstick, and painted white over enterprises. Jim was ok with the H and flags. Also , Dad did race the El Camino a little. I have photos of it somewhere at a dragstrip and I think there’s shoe polish numbers on the windows. I may even have a time slip or two. How cool is that?!
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