I just recently bought a 1952 3/4 ton truck. Love it, and what a find! It was a small town fire station's water truck since new, a local farmer bought it in 1981, used it a couple of years and it was in a shed the rest of the time, then I bought it. Superficial light rust, and just under 18,000 miles! Seriously! Awesome huh?! I plan on making a daily driver out of it, which doesn't take much. I am having the normal problems sourcing the recirculating heater core, (the round donut cut in half). A heater is an item high on the list, here in soon-to-be-very-cold Iowa.
Unfortunately, I don't have time to rustproof it with POR15 or something similar before winter sets in, so for this year, as soon as the darn sodium gets sprayed on the roads, I will have to stop driving it.
I want to do most of the work on it myself, but I work at farmers co-op and right now at harvest my hours are 12-17 hrs a day, 7 days a week. So it is at a local shop getting the brakes redone (blew a wheel cylinder on the drive home) and a couple of other minor things done to make it driveable. It runs great, purrs like a kitten, but no heater! :ohwell:
Glad to be here with Ol' Blue! I also have a '79 C-10, which is my primary driver. I hate new trucks! :cool:
