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Zoom in on the lot across the street. Couple new CP's in the front row L-R!

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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.

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Vauxhalls, Pontiacs & Beaumonts. Were they picked up via transport from there, or were they destined to get on a ship for Vancouver Island?

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67 Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe, Oshawa-built 250 PG never disturbed.

In garage, 296 cid inline six & TH350...

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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.

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StriperSS wrote:

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 ???



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I actually thought of this when I saw the truck,
 
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"OVERLOADED" or middle part of the load slid back due to hill as top lift seems farther ahead .

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In those days they put on whatever the truck would hold.

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The wreckers seem so primitive, but they got it done.



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My Dads B model Mack would have a flame from the stack with a good jag on.

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the cop looks pissedmaybe his wife ordered a new VAUXHALL and he can see it in the receiving yard......

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Yea, he wanted a Limelight 396 SD ragtop 4 speed with the white SD stripe, white interior and black top, but we know how that goes.



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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.

 

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That is a pretty steep hill there too!

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What street would this be today?



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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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cdnpont wrote:

What street would this be today?

 West 6th and Oak street. Oak being the hill.



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