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Friday OT: what is that?
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Or this even older pedal to the right of the gas pedal.
If we hadn't had a 1950 Chevy PU truck growing up I'd not know either. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why that vehicle had two gas pedals. I figured it was like a choke or something. Cause Dad always pushed it when he was starting it. Only later did I learn...
If definitely DIDN'T have carpeting. It actually didn't have a lot of it's floor. Rusted out BAD!
The cab mounts rusted enough that the cab settled such that the brake and clutch pedals didn't always disengage - because they were binding where they came through the floor. You had to sometimes hook your toe under it to pull it up.
Or this even older pedal to the right of the gas pedal.
I know this one better than the other one shown. Purely because my grandfather still had one of his first truck's from the 40s I wanna say? Him and the family got a whole laugh when I was being a cocky 16 year old who knew how to drive stick.
"Turn that on first try and you can have it!" my grandfather said. I boasted over to that truck and I was so lost on everything between that pedal, pumping the gas, and throttling. Or some combination. Felt like an idiot!
He eventually taught me and we drove through the back roads of eastern Iowa in that old truck just shooting the crap. One of my best memories of him and now that his mind is going and he's into his 90s, probably will never be another one to top it.
Thanks for the laugh and cry.
I had to ask PapaLew! He had me count off, left to right.
I got to the gas pedal & then drew a blank, and he explained it to me. He says he had one on one of his first vehicles, a '51 International pickup (at least he thinks it was the International...!).
Or it could also be for the broken off heater controls (quite common to Chevy vehicles of that era) where the bottle opener is installed...
Creepy Crawlers
Apparently had a brief resurgence in the '90s due to boomer nostalgia. (Then faded quickly, from what I've read)
I had one of those, it had a tumor on the side of it. Somewhere, maybe Hardee’s, had Big 8 basketballs.
My Nick Nurse white basketball saw a lot of action too.
Yah, everytime I see an old truck with this I flashback to the early '60's as 4'-10" boy version of me was stretching to reach those pedals on my dad's 1949 Chevy gasoline delivery truck. The choke was easy to ID, it had a big block letter C on the knob.
It was his backup truck by then and just barely fit in the garage at his bulk plant storage yard. Couple inches clearance for the mirrors and you had to actually touch the bumper to the back wall in order for the old sliding wooden door to close. Old school, man, totally old school.
Yeah I think it was Hardees. I completely forgot about those Big 8 b-balls! If you had a rubber basketball it was just a matter of time before your ball had a bulge on it.
Yah, everytime I see an old truck with this I flashback to the early '60's as 4'-10" boy version of me was stretching to reach those pedals on my dad's 1949 Chevy gasoline delivery truck. The choke was easy to ID, it had a big block letter C on the knob.
When I started driving on the farm we had 1948 and 1963 Chevy grain trucks. As you mentioned, the '48 had labels on at least the throttle (T) and choke (C). However, in the '63, there was this row of 5 or 6 control knobs across the dash with no labels. WTH? We didn't drive the grain trucks that often, so I remember several times pulling the knob off the wiper switch looking for the headlights (until my Dad finally labeled them). We also had a 1963 F-250 that had a similar row of control knobs, except that they were nicely labeled with chrome trim. And of course the Ford controls were in a different order than the Chevy controls. Probably why I grew to be a Ford person and dislike Chebby. Not to mention that most every Chevy truck I drove from that 1960's era had at least one of the climate control levers broken off.
