Hooniverse Truck Thursday: Got Milk?
While this olelongrooffan generally prefers vehicles to be bone as stock, I couldn’t help but capture these few images of this beautiful Divco to share with my fellow Hoons this Hooniverse Truck Thursday.
While I am not old enough to remember when these milk trucks were ubiquitous in every residential neighborhood,
I have seen a few around but none had received the tastefully done mods this one has.
It has old school V8 Ford hubcaps on those black steelies and those oversize shoes it is wearing suggest this muscle truck must have a substantial means of acceleration on the other end.
The interior is still a work in progress but all around, this olelongrooffan was pretty impressed with it.
And while there are other cool old milk trucks out there, it’s just not a Divco.
Yeah, just a quickie Hooniverse Truck Thursday post for this olelongrooffan before I head off to meet Manuel Labor. I almost wish I were in this Divco but my paid for ole Comanche works equally as well.
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Very cool! I'm seriously curious as to this van's motivation.
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The owner should be drinking milk, not coffee.
How come you never see retired UPS trucks in private hands?
UPS destroys all their old trucks. They are custom designed bodies on a standard commercial chassis for the most part. UPS doesn't want to spoil their brand image by having old beat-up trucks being used by a local plumber or abandoned on the side of the road like a U-Haul truck. This might not apply to standard Sprinter vans and such where a repaint would obliterate any UPS identity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Parcel_Servic…
The local junkyard I frequent was actually tasked with the destruction of some UPS trucks. They were not allowed to salvage a single thing so everything from the drivetrain to the wheels and tires went right to the shredder. Kind of a waste if you ask me.
Because they crush them once they are retired. I heard once you could buy the used chassis but the bodies are destroyed. From an interview I just read UPS is as fastidious as Disney about their image. Uniforms have to be worn as per regulation, the trucks are special-built for them, their shade of brown is trademarked, even the procedure for buckling the seat belt and starting the truck is outlined.
The University of Louisville is famous for their population of rare albino squirrels.
Just down the road at the UPS air hub, you can find equally the equally rare albino UPS delivery truck. Painted white instead of brown for their life on the UPS air freight ramp – presumably for visibility reasons. It's one of the few places in the world you can see one painted a color other than brown.
Uniform per regulation?
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there obviously are other images out there but I think this is the least offensive…
I'll see your hot-rodded Divco milk truck and raise you it's antithesis.
A Walker Dynamotive Gas/Electric Hybrid milk truck.
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IMG from my Flickr stream from the Keeneland Concours last summer
The taillights appear to be from a later C4.
Dodge built some similar milk trucks, and some of those were set up so that the driver stood, rather than sat. Scary thought, that.
I'd drive a classic Divco, but I'm paranoid that it would get creamed in an accident.
Right now, recovering from a butt injury, I would be very intrigued by that.
A butt injury?
Is it too obvious to blame Charles?
Somebody tore Devin a new one.
It was in a freak laundry accident. I quite literally lost my sheet.
(Seriously, tripped on the stairs and fell on my ass, much pain for two weeks now. And tomorrow I get to drive for three hours. Yaaaaay.)
If it's anything like when I busted my pelvis, sit on pillows and recline the seat a bit so your thighs and torso don't make as sharp of an angle.
Butter get insurance.
I'd try to sneak in a dairy pun here, if I thought I could get it past your eyes.
I am the milkman, my milk is delicious.
I am the egg man.
Great Psychonauts reference. Loved that game (apart from the bloody meat circus).
I like stock milk trucks, but I also like supercharged milk trucks.
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We can still get milk delivered in our (fancy pants) neck of the woods… Unfortunately, their trucks are not quite as cool:
<img src="http://www.michalthemilkman.com/Moo/Photos_files/Media/IMG_0095/IMG_0095.jpg" width="500/">
Image from: http://www.michalthemilkman.com/Moo/Photos.html#1
I did spot some vintage Divco in the back of their parking lot. <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=172+Channing+Avenue,+Palo+Alto,+CA&hl=en&ll=37.441162,-122.158194&spn=116.424654,165.234375&sll=37.441148,-122.158183&hnear=172+Channing+Ave,+Palo+Alto,+California+94301&t=w&z=3&vpsrc=6&layer=c&panoid=ATJLQOh9PJOe7dG2gVs9LQ&cbll=37.441162,-122.158194&cbp=13,119.38303299036976,,0,2.062648062470899″ target=”_blank”>http://maps.google.com/maps?q=172+Channing+Avenue,+Palo+Alto,+CA&hl=en&ll=37.441162,-122.158194&spn=116.424654,165.234375&sll=37.441148,-122.158183&hnear=172+Channing+Ave,+Palo+Alto,+California+94301&t=w&z=3&vpsrc=6&layer=c&panoid=ATJLQOh9PJOe7dG2gVs9LQ&cbll=37.441162,-122.158194&cbp=13,119.38303299036976,,0,2.062648062470899
Still, quite a nice ol' milk truck.
Maybe not as cool as a Divco, but there's nothing wrong with a nice old Ford milk truck, either.
Wow! This's fantastic! Milk trucks never caught my attention at all until this moment.
Suddenly, a thousand new possibilities. . . .
Trosley drew a wild hot-rod milk truck for CAR-Toons when I was a kid. I've dreamt of one ever since.
/sighs, remembers CAR-Toons, wishes for a moment he was 10 years old again and Hot Wheels were the most important thing on earth
I found the old issues I had and gave them to my son. He dug the crazy pics but was a little off with the Krass and Bernie chasing the chicks though.
Hot Wheels has you covered.
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Actually, Hot Wheels were never as important to me as model car kits. Revell, AMT, MPC, Monogram, Lindberg…
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
That's insane. And awesome. And insane.
Holy crap! I see marine radar! Does it float?
Yes. It was built for an intended amphibious circumnavigation of the earth. Here it is at the Panama Canal.
<img src="http://www.dobbertinhydrocar.com/DSO/ORBITER_Panama_Canal.jpg">
<a href="http://www.dobbertinhydrocar.com/facts_&_history.htm” target=”_blank”>http://www.dobbertinhydrocar.com/facts_&_history.htm
But… if it's amphibious… why take a canal?
For the photo op. Driving coast to coast in a country as narrow as Panama doesn't bring press attention or sponsorship.
Also:
A man, a plan, a canal. Panama.
(spell it backwards)
Do yourself a favor and read about it some time. Quite the tale.
I started to at lunch.–fascinating stuff. Had to quit, but will dive in later this evening.
When you finish that reading, look into the J-2000 built by the same guy. It's often credited as the car that took the Pro Street crowd to the next level.
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Whoa. Will do.
Lala-lalala,
Warm it up.
Lala-lalala,
The boys are waiting
My milk truck brings all the hoons to the yard
And they're like
Its better than yours
Damn right,
It's better than yours
I can ride you,
But I have to charge…
This exact truck was discussed on the GRM forum a few weeks ago. The guy driving it was using it to pick up some car parts.
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/cooles…
Now I understand my favorite song so much better:
"Now the milkman beats you to the door,
What was once a home, home no more."
They must have been racing for pinks.
Divco milk trucks are just way cool. Vintage Truck Magazine publishes articles about obscure milk and delivery trucks like Divco all the time. Excellent reading for Hoons. http://www.ertelgiftshop.com/index.php?main_page=…
Old COEs are so cool. Definitely on my "when I [insert reason I don't have to work anymore] and dedicate my remaining days to building cool cars" project list, below the diesel C3 but above the Brat STi.