I was asked to comment on the Alderson truck project. It's a very rare truck Bill acquired years prior from an auction. It was an Independence Missouri Parks and Recreation tree spade truck. Bill won the bid but sold the spade off of it to the counter bidder.
The truck is a 1971 or 1972 1 ton dually Longhorn NAPCO 4 wheel drive conversion. It only had 9K miles on it but the frame was destroyed by the spade.
Bill found another Longhorn frame and we built it from the ground up. Bill brought the chassis / drivetrain to me to restore while Wayne rebuilt the body.
We got the bed for it the day before the show. We were putting it on when the
Friday at the Aldersons event was getting started. The image before is Wayne, Troy, Kenny and I putting the bed on Bill's favorite truck just before the party as John and Peggy pulled up.
Here is the 1966 1- ton that I mechanically restored that Bill let me show at the 2012 Reunion.
Sadly Bill passed away the
following year but got his final ride with his truck to the cemetery.
Scott
