I stumbled across a website with all the Chevrolet sales brochures, and a bunch of paint code info, and other stuff
you can look up a lot of cool stuff here! http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/brochuredisplay.cgi
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U Haul was created out of necessity when a Navy Hospital Corspmen was discharged after WW2, and found that there weren't rental trailers for a DIY move, and could only move what would fit in and on his car
Discharged from the Navy in the summer of 1945, 29-year-old Sam and Anna Mary tried to rent a utility trailer to move their possessions from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore. It couldn't be done. They had to take only what they could fit in the family car, a 1937 Ford See the promo photo below for an accurate idea of what fit in a trailer instead The Shoens reasoned that many other families had a need similar to theirs: the short-term availability of a trailer that could be rented "here" and left "there." No one, at that time, seemed ready or willing to serve that need. That winter, to cut expenses "to the bone," Sam and Anna Mary moved in with her folks on the family ranch. They were broke, but believed they had a business. Based on his appearance of success, Sam obtained credit from a local lumber yard and was able to obtain war-surplus steel from a Navy yard. There were some major start-up hurdles, including the trailers themselves. They purchased trail...