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Old 05-25-2023, 12:35 PM
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GM Truck Engineering and Marketing had a relationship with a big farmer in Illinois by the name of Stoney Adkins.

I don't think Chevrolet provided his trucks (I think he just was a big buyer of fleet vehicles) but a lot of the ads in the 1970's and 1980's with this kind of flavor were taken at Stoney's place.

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Old 05-31-2023, 02:58 AM
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Great update Keith also cool inside info that would be lost to time if not shared.
Here’s a few more ads w/ farms etc, some obviously not near Illinois.

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Here’s a cool WW2 GM Canada Ad w/ strong words of pride for being part of Mosquito Bomber production.

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Here’s a few more including some Opel Ads for Lynn.

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