Anyone out there know of any clubs, groups or swaps in the far western suburbs of Chicago, IL, that gravitate toward the old trucks? I’m having a little trouble finding others in the area that is enjoying the same pleasures that I am. Ya know, like crawling round under this greasy old beast up to my elbows every night scraping 56 years of red clay and grease off her shapely frames and blowing their allowance every week on new/old parts, or driving all around gods creation looking in junk yards and over grown fields behind the barn, for one more part to keep her running another day. Already I’m finding people wanting to give me extra junk parts, got an offer for a 235 the other day, just haul it away, but I don’t think I want to go that route. After all, the 216 pulled her around all this time, it should pull her around for the remaining 35 years I have left.
It really is fun though, and what a pleasure to work on after trying to work on the new cars. The reproduction parts availability for these early trucks is nothing short of amazing. Now if only vender would reproduce a set of tubeless WHEELS that would fit a 1950 3600 and look like the original split rim!
I belong to a half dozen antique radio clubs and could go to a swap meet every week if I felt like driving, so I’m sure there are a bunch of guys round here that are into the Stovebolts. Even after only two weeks, I can see I’m gonna have to find a way to trade some of my 300 odd antique radios for old antique truck parts, or should I say, classic truck parts? I’m gonna need the room, not to mention the cash!!!!!
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
