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# 2747 More truck pictures of my old truck From Doug : After about two years of searching (and a few near misses on eBay), I finally got my dream truck. It's a 1940 Chevy 1/2-ton. While performing my usual Sunday morning search on Craigslist, I found her! -- my “working but not too well to be expensive” find. Being located just 30 miles from my home in Portland, Oregon, I was in the car ten minutes later. Things started out with excitement from the beginning -- she ran out of gas on my test drive. We had to push it along for about a quarter mile. It was actually perfect, running out of gas on a beautiful fall day, a gravel farm road … an “iconic moment” that actually gave me some time with the truck while the former owner went to fetch gas. Following the wise advice from others, the brakes will be the first order of business (and I used a Bolters tip about the garage door pulleys to get the emergency brakes back on line!).
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