The chances of this truck ever having been a US Forestry Service truck is just about 0. Once I started removing the camper, it was very obvious that is was a homemade job by the way it was pieced together. Anywhere rivets were found in the roof, were large rust holes. I could tell the rivets were hand made and put in with a hammer instead of rivet gun. The camper probably weighed in excess of 600lbs. When they added the camper, the flare boards of the bed sides were cut and beat down flat with a hammer. I have since been able to bend them back in place. One day I was standing behind the truck and noticed that the right top rounded corner of the cab was on a completely different radius than the left side of the cab. I opened the passenger side door and pulled down the old dry rotted headliner. I found that the truck had been wrecked hard on the right side and that someone had made a mess braze welding the side of the truck back together. Most of the passenger side is lead! Now I know why that passenger door had such bad gaps around it and is super hard to close. The passenger side sticks out about 2" farther than it should!
Last edited by c Jason Barnett; 06/20/2015 4:05 AM.
