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From an age where vehicle design was not the “copycat” method of today:

Thank you for posting those. Looks like marketing was more focused on the male back then. Now it is how many colors can we print on a disposable package.

Men? How you figure that?

Great designs, thanks for posting that up Larry!

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Wish I had the DIVCO 15................sigh

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Not to many women GAS or notice about what is going down the road. Proven fact, a woman's eyes are attracted to colorful packaging. I remember driving to SandyEggo CA at sixteen years of age, without studying company logos seeing various mostly Coors trucks Cab over Pete's, and other nicely decorated beverage trucks. Ask your wife sometime when you see a truck coming in the opposite direction what that carriers name is. Not being a truck driver unconsciencely doing it I notice most of the semi's that are seen often on the road. Advertising is all about catching the target buyers eye often.

Nice post, thanks!

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I see a number of those pics are from Milwaukee -- I wonder how many were the work of industrial design genius Brooks Stevens. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22brooks+stevens%22&biw=1242&bih=621&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiClbmc9rjKAhXJ6x4KHbmCA4YQ_AUIBygC&dpr=1.1

The good ole days

The only ones left easoly obtainable may be some devco milk vans. They built a lot of them as I use to see them almost everywhere in the day.

There is one of those milk/bread vans at a shop in town that builds rat rods. It seems like you could really make a neat vehicle out of one if you had a donor 240D. Hey, I have a couple of donor, euro 240D's.

Great pics Larry! I wonder how long those whitewalls stayed white on that coal truck?

This one is by far my favorite...I have a thing for Coca-Cola stuff

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Yeah, it does have that covered wagon heritage look.

there is a local company still operating about 20 divco's for milk delivery around here. Kind of neat to see them all the time still in use, and still delivering milk. Their fleet ranges from 50s to 80s in vintage

some are a bit rusty

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