Originally Posted by tko
....i really have no need for a 1.5 ton truck. But the whole darn thing is kind of sentimental to me. i learned to drive on that exact truck. when my dad bought 20 years ago it had been sitting in a mechanics lot for years with a brand new 235 sitting in it. we used to haul around 250 bushels of corn for quite a while. years later my grandfather acquired it and gave it back to me about a year before he died.
With all due respect--where is it written that you have to have a "need" for a truck in order to have it? It was your family's truck, passed down from your dad and grandfather. That's reason enough! Leave it the way it is, drive it in a parade once in a while, and just enjoy your family heirloom.

Rich
1947 Loadmaster
1947 Chev. Loadmaster
1959 Chev. Viking 40

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