The year 1959, when “The Battle of New Orleans” and “Mack the Knife” topped billboard charts, was the final year for the Chevrolet Task Force truck series. Its light-duty model, dubbed the Apache, sported a wide grille, quad headlights and bold styling. Under the hood would be either a base 235ci inline-six or 283ci V8 engine. While the truck went out of production, an ongoing love affair with it has never ended. For Luke and Madison Underwood, the Apache fit their …
Sears was launched in 1886 as a watch and jewelry mail-order business. The following year, Roebuck partnered with Sears, and the iconic catalog expanded. The first department store opened in 1925, and …
There are many things worth the wait. Autumn. Football games. A puppy. Warm cookies from the oven. Vacation. Christmas morning. A Ford Bronco? Most wait times can be measured in minutes, hours, …
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a tank, it’s a train, it’s Superman!It’s a cybertruck!According to Tesla, the company responsible for putting this rugged, tank-like, electric vehicle on the road, cybertruck …
Youth is impressionable. At the age of 6, David Reynolds attended the New York World’s Fair, which covered 646 acres at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens. More than 51 million people turned out …
Karen Wadovsky of Christiansburg has always loved to drive and appreciates classic cars. As a teen, she’d drive her dad’s dump trucks and large moving vehicles. But it was “Papa”, her grandfather …
If you need to transport a dozen or so people regularly or you need a cleverly outfitted work vehicle, or you make deliveries of medium and large things or you want a …
For the communications technology buffs among New River Valley Magazine readers, the first time that 14 cities were connected via telephone lines was June 28, 1966, at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in Detroit. …
It’s not often that a substandard fencing job spawns the name of an imaginary farm for the name of a real truck. I was finishing up the restoration of this 1946 pick-up …