That truck is a Studebaker M series.
Those advertisements are awesome to see, thanks for posting them!
I thought it humorous to read āfull vision cabā considering the size of those windows.
Nevada beat me to it, the bed floor has been removed to make room for the frame and suspension and most likely a hydraulic or air ride system that you donāt understandā¦
This is a truck bedā¦
You remove the bed on some trucks for access to the fuel pump, you do not use a saw and remove the floor of the bed in order to access said fuel pump.. You sometimes cut out the floor when building any kind of lowered truck such as drag race truck, lowered trucks on air or hydraulicsā¦
Here is an example of a truck with the floor removedā¦
Here is whatās called a cab truck, or chassis truck, it has no bedā¦
Yup!
Everything is relativeā¦ regarding the standard of the time period.
Florida is like Somalia. Neither one has a functional government.
I disagree. We have a very effective government. Provides all the services we need. Which is why we are the fastest growing state in the US. And so many people from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania are moving here.
So, How Yoo doooinā? from my New Jersey transplant friends
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My son in lawās father has owned a home in Bradenton for decades. It was a family vacation home. Now that heās retired, itās a winter home. He still maintains his summer home near Baltimore. His Florida house is in a residential neighborhood and heās still not fully accepted by the residents because he still has his Maryland home.
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Well, it certainly doesnāt hurt to have some of the best weather overall year round 
Aside from the occasional hurricane of course. One came through near my Brotherās house soon after they moved there and his comment was- this wasnāt in the brochure 
One comedian said the reason so many older people move there is because you donāt need to put on socks. Anyone not old enough may not realize the humor.
I am jealous though, itās time to put the summer toys away for winter here. Wonāt have the cars out again until late April or May dependingā¦
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ā¦ and, at least in the case of NJ, the people who are leaving are rapidly replaced by newcomers who are attracted by the high salaries and the proximity to NYC. People seem to get their knickers in a twist when they see the stats about people leaving NJ, but they donāt seem to notice that apartment and condo complexes are constantly being built, and are quickly filled. Older SF homes on large pieces of property are torn down when the original residents die, and the new construction is multi-family dwellings.
I think that these stats are interesting:
- 1st in Northeast Year-Over-Year Growth Rate: New Jersey leads the Northeast with a 1.3% growth rate, surpassing regional counterparts.
- 10th Nationwide in Year-Over-Year Growth Rate: New Jersey is among the top ten states nationwide in terms of population growth rate.
And, while Florida continues to see major population growth, some areas of the stateālike Tampaāare seeing an outflow of people. But, as with NJ, the folks who leave are soon replaced by newcomers.
Tampa Bay lands in Top 20 Cities People Are Leaving in 2025: PODS' May study | FOX 13 Tampa Bay
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I would suspect that is the same anywhere vacation homes are common. We are friendly with the Canadian snowbirds next door but they really are not part of the community.
My wife resembles that remark on occasion in December and January! It also means I have to wear long pants.
Yes the weather IS a drawā¦ it is what drew me here. You never have to shovel rain! The hurricanes and the resultant home and flood insurance are downsides. Three years on, there is still damage left from Hurricane Ian.
Well, the weather is not nearly as good up here in the Nashville area, it is stu-pid muggy hot in the summer, we have the most night time tornados in the US, it gets below freezing during the winter, a big part of the year it rains hard and a lot, and people are flooding here, we are one of the top cityās in growth, I just wish people would leave also, too crowdedā¦
Go away, we the OGās donāt want anymore new peopleā¦ for a while anyway, let it die down some 1stā¦
The very first business trip of my career was to Trane in Tennessee. We designed and built the VAV controllers for many of their systems. Flew to Nashville and drove to Clarksville ifān I recall correctly. This was in July and I will never forget the heat and humidity was stifling. Good thing I was going to a company that makes HVAC equipment, eh? That was one of the largest manufacturing complexes I have ever visited in my entire career. We rode bicycles to get around the plant! Raw steel came in one end of the plant and finished HVAC units left the other side. They had ginormous stamping machines to fabricate the housings with the louvers. It was impressive. But the level of heat and humidity in that area was surprisingā¦
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The Dart in 60 and 61 was close to full size. It was a full 6 passenger car, 116 ā wheelbase, My 61 Dodge Dart Phoenix had a 318 4 bbl carb and torqueflight. It was a great car, the unibody was so rigin you could jack up one side and change both rear tires.
It did havbe one problem though. if I drove much over 80 the air rammed through the heater so fast that I could not get any heat in the winter. I solved it by putting a small deflector in front of the heater air intake.
The Dodge equivalint to the Valaint was the Lancer in 61.
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I suspect most people on this thread are aware of that. But in 1960 the full size Dodge was the Matador. In 61 the Dart remained the midsize, Matador became the Polaris, Lancer continued.
- Dart: 118 inches
- Polara and Wagons: 122 inches
- Lancer: 106.5 inches
The 60-62 Valiant&Lancer roofline just never worked for me.
Matador:
Yes, in a sense, but being only 4 inches shorter didnāt really qualify the original Dart for midsize statusāIMO. The original Dart was really a glorified Plymouth, albeit with very different styling. For what itās worth, I think that the styling of the Dart was much nicer than the styling of the Matador.
After Chrysler discontinued the Desoto, Dodge gained an extra model, namely the Custom 880. This was essentially a Chrysler Newport, and for the first couple of years, the Custom 880 blended the front clip of a '61 Dodge with the overall styling of the Chrysler.
You could have taken āThe last train to Clarksvilleā.
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Yeah, I have had a few mechanics from Arizona talk about how hot the temps got there, before our summer hit, then complain about how hot/muggy is was when July and August hitā¦
I have had plenty of customers that drove death traps and refused to repair their vehicles, but will spend big money to make sure the A/C worked good againā¦
I have family up in Clarksville, it is normally about 1-2 degrees cooler up thereā¦