That's looking across False Creek. I think it's Terminal avenue where the vehicles were unloaded off the trains. Now BC Place stadium is on the other side, and it's a forest of high rise buildings.
This is where they came off the trains, and were distributed to dealers around BC. The closest Pontiac Buick dealers to this yard was Kirkpatrick Pontiac Buick, Cambie street, and Bowell McLean on Broadway. Jim Pattison was on 19th and Main. In 68 I was still riding my bike to all the car dealers in the west part of Vancouver picking up brochures. Got my license in 69.
That's looking across False Creek. I think it's Terminal avenue where the vehicles were unloaded off the trains. Now BC Place stadium is on the other side, and it's a forest of high rise buildings.
Looks like the truck with the lumber was severely overloaded ???
The load on the '59 GMC flatbed looks like has shifted, at least the lower half of the sheets. It appears to be cinched down well, so it is surprising that it shifted and is pawing the air with it's front wheels. The truck looks like a Canadian-built GMC 980 series if it has running boards & cast spoke wheels (not overloaded) or possibly a 960 series (disk wheels, no running boards) which may be at or over it's load limit. It would be Chevrolet powered in the Canadian GMC tradition, although it could have had a GMC 302 six via COPO (actually C.S.L.) in the tradition of the Maple Leaf trucks of the 30s & 40s.
edit: truck is a '59 based on colour
-- Edited by CdnGMfan on Sunday 14th of January 2024 02:25:39 PM
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My buddy just bought a 2010 Nissan, its registered weight was 14,000kg, same as my 1959 El Camino. That truck in the pic may not have had a legal weight rating, wonder when that started? When did a tow rating show up in the brochures?
I think you hauled whatever you thought you could/ should, it was only not safe after something like this happened.
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