Thanks, Dan. I caught Wrenchbender out back looking at the old stuff. I noticed that AC in the truck motor bay, then gradually realized what the entire truck was doing sitting there on the ground by that door. Old farm trucks are something I’m very familiar with. My Dad bought a new 1945 KB-5 International, red of course, and from then on, to me, if it’s a truck it has to be red. My parents owned and operated the grain elevator in Tonganoxie, KS for several years, beginning in 1949. Grain came in trucks of every description as well as wagons, even occasionally pulled by horses. My husband and I later operated farm to market trucking business, spread ag lime and bulk fertilizer, and farmed a good bit, also had a tire business where plenty of farm truck, tractor and wagon tires went through. So Mongo’s shop and old trucks made me feel right at home. I spent many hours in spring driving a 1959 Chevy 1-ton pulling anhydrous ammonia tanks around Leavenworth County. Sometimes I hauled grain in the fall, depending on the elevators and grain markets. We had a 10-wheel 1963 International Loadstar, a 1960 something Emeryville 18-wheel that did most of the grain hauling. A 1965 International Loadstar carried the twin-loader for our 1969 Big A fertilizer spreader. Our beginning in business was in 1956 when we bought out a retiring trucker who primarily hauled livestock and water. Hauling water was a busy job pre the rural water districts. Those trucks were mid-1940’s Chevrolets. A new 1957 International was a lemon and didn’t stay with us long. There were a couple of GMC’s and a Chevy cabover along the way, Chevy pickups and a 1979 Chevy van. Oh yeah, we had a car or two. We had farm tractors, of course, some new, many not, some quite old. Thanks for the trip back in time.0
