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cosmo1

Perhaps.
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That's kind of what I started with. The seat pedestal would tilt forward so you could walk behind it easier.

The ones I'm talking about just had a padded thing to lean your butt on. Drove standing up.

We didn't have any, but down in the big city they still were using a few.
 

cosmo1

Perhaps.
Staff member
The old flat top Econolines?

No, it was an 800 with a Ford nose until the roof blew off (the wood frame rotted away) and it was rebuilt with the bubble nose.

Freaking 14 year old POS when I started, and don't think it got crushed until the early '80s.

We did have one of those old Econolines with big fog lights on the bumper they used as a feeder.
 

rod

Retired 23 years
No, it was an 800 with a Ford nose until the roof blew off (the wood frame rotted away) and it was rebuilt with the bubble nose.

Freaking 14 year old POS when I started, and don't think it got crushed until the early '80s.

We did have one of those old Econolines with big fog lights on the bumper they used as a feeder.


We had 4 of those old early 60's Econolines. When they gave out the were replaced with Bubble-top Econolines.
 

cosmo1

Perhaps.
Staff member
We had 4 of those old early 60's Econolines. When they gave out the were replaced with Bubble-top Econolines.

We had a bubble top on a rural route. I remember the mechanic bitching about it all the time.

As I remember, the sheet metal around the firewall kept cracking from the abuse it took on dirt roads.
 
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