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# 2685 More truck pictures in Photobucket! From Marc : Growing up in Piedmont Virginia, right on the VA / NC border, there were farms all around and a lot of trucks. I remember, as a kid in the late 60s and 70s, all the tobacco farmers' trucks lined up at the warehouses as their crops were going to auction. Lines of pickups and flatbed big bolts .. it was great. (Sounds like heaven ~ Editor) There were early-mid 60s single axle Chevy cab over tractors that the tobacco companies used to pull their canvas cover trailers of newly purchased tobacco, heading off to the prizeries to get weighed, tagged and off to get processed. Bits and pieces of Bright Leaf that blew out of the sides of those trailers lined the road. Well, one day I found one on eBay that caught my eye. It had all the stuff I wanted already done ... hmm. I put in a bid and followed the auction closely. I was sniper bidded in the end ... serves me right as I'm guilty of doing that, too. The auction didn't meet its reserve. So, I emailed the seller and talked to him about the truck. It has a new clutch and the rust had been fixed. Hmm ... ok. He went on to tell me that he got the truck to haul mulch and take trash to the dump and so on. I told him that I lived in the Myrtle Beach,SC area. He said that he was coming there to play some golf. He'd bring the truck down from High Point, NC for me to look at. Ok! Bring it on then! We met at the gas station down the street and there she was. I looked around the truck and saw some of what I would soon find to be the usual rust areas of these trucks. (Hmm "fixed the rust did ya?" I was thinking.) To him, fixing the rust was all about taking a handheld grinder to a few places of surface rust and bubbled up paint. Good thing he didn't dig in too deep! We got to talking turkey about the price. He had his idea and I had mine. After about 10 minutes or so, we came to an agreement and off we went to the house to finish the deal. He got a couple of beers and I got a full tank of gas. ~shurg~ The interior looked pretty good. The dash and doors had been sprayed over with a pretty good match to the original. The ceiling and the back of the cab still had its original paint. The seat had an old school roll n' pleat job. The three on the tree was replaced with a smooth shifting Saginaw 4 speed with an old Hurst shifter. Whoever did the job, did good on a lot of it as they even ground down the old column shifter mount and filled it in. Are they some old Cal-Custom clutch and brake pedal pads? I think JC Whitney had those, too ... probably still does. heh. The wiring was untouched and in good shape. It was missing the ashtray and the radio, which have been found online and installed (original working AM radio to boot came with the matching chrome edged knobs ... yes!) All the lights, wipers and gauges work fine. The speedometer is off by around 13-15 mph from its transmission swap. The odometer lost some teeth at 78000 and stayed there. First to go were those awful mirrors. After working with the rusty mounting screws, out came the sander and the mig welder. I got the holes filled, smoothed and primed. Then I put in a call to LMC for a new black round mirror and a new glove box inside box part. The bed is in great shape. The wood had been replaced years ago and had lost its finish somewhere along the line. I sanded it all down, metal strips and all, and applied about five coats of polyurethane and primed and painted all the metal strips black. I sanded the "fixed rusted places" smooth and sprayed on some primer. After all that, I was thinking if I could bring the paint back to life. Hmm ... ok ... time to get the buffer out. She shined up pretty good, primer spots, too. haha. So far so good. I shined it up as best as I could and took her out to shoot a photo.
As with a lot of the old trucks here, she's a work in progress. And sometimes she can be a real piece of work.
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