I posted this on the VCCA forum, but wanted to intro here too.
Hi! My name is Matt. I found this forum looking for a place to be able to ask questions as I get my family's 1947 3100 pick up back on the road after a lot of misadventures.
My dad bought this truck a little before I was born in 1972. It was built in Oakland California - around the 3000th one made after they switched to the Advanced body. Before him it was owned and used from new as a shop truck by Machado Blacksmith Shop in Walnut Creek California. Original shop details are on both doors on top of nicely patina enhanced original paint. It was a regular presence in my life as transportation until around 1980. In the early 1990s he took it apart, had a shop rebuild the original 216 engine and started in on some general clean up. Life happened and eventually it ended up a basket case in Gulfport Mississippi just in time for hurricane Katrina to flood it out ruining the transmission and torque tube rear end. It made its way back to Northern California near Clear Lake in about 2008 where he and I did some work to it, but nothing major. He moved to a house near me here in Murphys California in 2020. More misadventures saw the truck sitting in a field in his old Clear Lake neighborhood until he had it towed to my house just before Christmas last year. It's sitting on my driveway loosely assembled for transport and the unattached parts are in a pile in the barn next to the MGBGT and Alfa Romeo. I reckon it's time for the misadventures to end.
What's my current plan? With help from my dad and 11-year-old son get it on the road while my dad can still drive.
Thanks for reading this long introduction thread. I'll start a rebuild thread in the appropriate place soon.
Last edited by Peggy M; 03/13/2024 10:28 PM. Reason: added more info to the title
