Antique Truck Print - 1938 Chevy Panel Truck - Goldenglow Butter - Vintage Panel Truck - Classic Outlaw Biker Transport

Antique Truck Print - 1938 Chevy Panel Truck - Goldenglow Butter - Vintage Panel Truck - Classic Outlaw Biker TransportTreasures from the ANTIQUE & VINTAGE TRUCK COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 20 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 20 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us. When I was a kid, I lived in the countryside where 18th century farms were common. We're talking N. C. and Andrew Wyeth

Treasures from the ANTIQUE & VINTAGE TRUCK COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 20 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 20 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

When I was a kid, I lived in the countryside where 18th century farms were common. We're talking N. C. and Andrew Wyeth country. Real pretty, real picturesque. Wall calendar, greeting card nostalgia beautiful. That said, we also had a remarkable number of bikers. Pagans, Warlocks, some Mongols, and lots of lone wolf types who hadn't committed to a club but partied with all of them. It was idyllic horse country where people rode to the hunt through rolling fields with miles of split rail fence, but with 74s blasting straight drag pipes off in the distance, for them what had ears to hear such things.

Understand, this was the era before store bought bikers, and these kids meant business. They were always killing each other in bloody battles over control of various lucrative trades which we will not elaborate on here. When they were at parties or bars or riding, full colors were common, but they would definitely make an effort to dress down when they thought it was good for a particular situation.

That said, I don't care if they were all dressed like 7th grade math teachers, no biker could resist a vintage panel truck, just like Roger Rabbit with 'shave and a haircut'. All bikers in the late 60s through the early 80s adored big vintage panel trucks. Hell, even I had a 54 Chevy 3/4 ton in dark blue, and my 49 BSA A7 did not make me a biker.

Well, nothing says to the local constabulary 'Hey, wake up boys, outlaw bikers inside!' than the neon sign that was a vintage panel truck roaring through the countryside in the Mid Atlantic, at night, in the 70s...

Just sayin'.

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