Junykard Find: 1972 GMC Vandura, Pacific Telephone Edition

If you were cruising American roads during the late 1960s through middle 1980s, you saw them everywhere: Bell System vans in their unmistakable white/green livery. Those trucks are nearly extinct today, so I was pleased to find this ex-phone-company Vandura at a self-service car graveyard near the Tesla Factory in Northern California.
The Bell System subsidiaries all over the country ran cargo and passenger vans made by Ford, Chrysler and GM, so there were Econolines, Club Wagons, Tradesmen, Sportsmen, Voyagers, Sportvans, Chevy Vans, Rallies and Vanduras working for Southern Bell, New Jersey Bell, Illinois Bell and so on.

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