1952 Chevy panel truck, this is what I am driving now!
Have you ever seen a cooler rust bucket truck!
Has three on the tree, slips out of second when you let off the gas, six cylinder, only the oil pressure gauge works, starter sounds like a stump grinder and it came equipped with a dozen black widow spiders! Have to charge the battery on a daily basis.
We will restore this one next summer. Currently we are restoring a 56 Chevy NAPCO four wheel drive truck, all original.
We did have to replace all the suspension, new leaf springs and shocks because it had been lowered using a torch to heat and bend the ends of the springs. Frame was sitting directly on the axles, no shocks; bouncy! Rides nice now.
Fenders and running boards will be metallic burgundy and the body, metallic silver. We will custom paint "Rock N Roll" on the sides, even with and behind the doors. A thousand watt stereo system will be installed, hence, Rock N Roll !! I will do all the upholstery work on my commercial machine. This is what the customs agents phone call was all about; I bought a pair of original bucket seats out of Canada. Has a late model bench seat, now.
Is it hard to believe I would drive a rust bucket truck like this? Sometimes I think you boys believe I am bullsh!ting you with all my wild stories. All of my stories are true!
Maybe spiced up with emotionally charged words but nonetheless true, even being tossed in the Tijuana jail for three days when I was sixteen!
I am a jailbird. I am a criminal. Sigh.
I am also a great teller of tall tales!
Purl Gurl
* yeah, that is our hilltop in the background.
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