At one time there were about 2,000 of these Good Humor Trucks on the streets of America. Are you old enough to remember the wonders and delights of youth? Was there an ice cream truck in your summers? What sweet delight it was to run barefoot clutching your quarter and chasing the sound of the bell, eager for the cold sweet delight of your favorite treat! Those days are long gone, of course. They ended in 1976 because of rising gas prices. This old truck has the potential of being restored to its former glory and perhaps introducing a new generation of children to the joys of a Good Humor truck, at least at car shows. You’ll find this truck listed on eBay in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. Bidding has reached the reserve and is over $7,000 at this time. The engine is incomplete and other parts are missing but the truck looks solid overall. It’s been parked since the seller purchased it in 1992. The area in the picture over the hood that has been blacked out is hiding another Good Humor Truck.
It looks pretty complete inside and the top is included, but that’s not the most interesting part of this picture. Is this some kind of creative photo editing, or is this that the same truck framed in the window? It’s not, of course. It’s the truck in the background that the seller tried to hide in the photo above. It appears to be a 1966 grill so perhaps the other truck is in better condition.
The left side looks pretty solid as well and the sign looks nice. There’s likely bondo hiding here and there after years selling ice cream.
Here’s the one-eyed friendly 1965 Ford face. The bells would have been clanging with the promise of a cold treat as it approached.
Here’s the engine, or most of it. The distributor, carburetor, radiator and other bits are missing. Perhaps this truck served as the parts truck for the seller’s 1966 truck.
Here’s the view you’d see chasing the ice cream truck down the street. Hopefully, you’d catch up. These Good Humor Trucks must not be very rare. The seller has at least two of them. There is a company, GoodHumorTrucks, that restores them. A few years ago Good Humor sent out a fleet of these classic trucks to cities around the company to try to boost sales. Instead of patrolling, they were summoned with a tweet and received a sample. I suspect the pieces missing from the engine and compressor may have been used on the seller’s other truck. It’s difficult to determine the value of specialty vehicles like these. Scotty wrote one up here a couple of years ago that was in much worse shape than this one. The buy it now price was $8,900. A really nice one sold on eBay a few years ago for $65,000. Hopefully, there’s someone out there with the resources to restore this one. It will be interesting to see what it sells for.
I really want and ice cream sandwich right now!
I want this so long as it’s filled with toasted almond and eclair bars.
Mmmmm…definitely my two favs.
Woulda thought far more than 2,000 of these roaming the country back then. Neat truck, and there’s another in the background?
Every year at the annual Fall Hershey AACA meet there is one of these trucks parked in front of the Giant Center.
These Sixties Good Humor trucks are an interesting metaphor for a changed America. Think of the driver back in the day in a spanking white uniform and cap, Now contrast that with todays seedy busted up converted vans that look like they’re driven by pedophiles…most of whom dont appear to speak English. Sic Transit Gloria
I just had one of those seedy ones go by the house here aand I thought, I wish it were a Good Humor, came into the garage, picked up the tablet while still hearing the jingle, and what do I see? The Good Humor truck I was wishing for. Only not patrollung the streets.
Barrett Jackson just sold a fully restored GH truck over $100k.
We were there at B/J Palm Beach. It sold for $107K + 10%. My friend took a picture of the big screen with the $107K price and texted his wife with “I bid it to $105K and lost it. I asked him how that went . . . . . NOT GOOD. She was told before we went that I was the bidder and he had a guest pass so he couldn’t bid. She still expected we would do something stupid. It didn’t happen.
Disappeared this year : STORE BRAND 12 pack chocolate covered vanilla ice cream on a stick. Gone, except for Aldi’s, which has shrunk to a tiny size.
& rear pockets are now gone from under $10 shorts for males.
& store brand frozen french toast – completely gone, as of a few years back.
That’s all we get here are chocolate covered vanilla. The trouble is we want chocolate on chocolate. We also have the french toast. However, we can’t find shorts here for under 30 bucks.
What about the Thing in the background
I just saw one of these trucks sell for 100k two weeks ago at Barrett Jackson. Definitely bring back memories. Even if my 80’s childhood
The thing in the background? The car? May be a Jolly
I think it’s a rare Thing Acapulco Edition.
We didn’t have GH around here when my kids were little, but there were ice cream trucks. Funny how the kids couldn’t hear a thing when you told them to do something and you were less than 3′ away from them, yet they could hear that truck bell 6 blocks away!
I can still hear my ma yelling from a block away “we’re going to eat so don’t buy any ice cream” (Didn’t hear ya ma)
If you had the (very) disposable income it would make a cool Tom Daniels style custom-FE motor with blower sticking out of the hood, fenderwell headers, big meats in the back, etc.
Yes and one sold recently at auction for $117,000. Unbelievable!
There’s one of these at the Smithsonian looking sort of sad outside unprotected.
This brings back some tasty memories. Literally! I can remember when other things like milk, butter, cheese, produce, and eggs were all delivered to your home. I miss those days.
I wish they were a little clearer on the type of children they want. Would a forty and a forty-two year old work?
I’ll take a Rolex as fair trade.
This would complete my creepy clown Halloween costume.
Reminds me of Cheech and Chong’s Nice Dreams every time I see one of these trucks.
I’ll have a fudgesicle please… That’ll be a dime young fella…
I thought they were called fudgicles.
Wow! Ended: May 20, 2018 , 8:03PM
Winning bid:US $20,202.00
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