Well I'm sure you gotta be talking about the one in the bottom of the picture cuz the one in the top of the picture gets exercised a couple times a week. Just not when it's raining or snowing. Makes a big difference you know, and do I wipe things down once in a while, sure, ya gotta wipe off those inevitable oil leaks. and getting the bugs off that spray through the radiator on a night ride to Skips Drive-In is the biggest challenge for me. Mines not a daily driver either, I've got a GMC Sierra for that, and I figured why after spending literally hundreds of hours taking everything that can be unbolted down to bare metal and painstakingly rebuilding and masking and painting it doesn't make sense to drive her through mud puddles. After all she's given over a half century of service and been abused daily for most of her life, so I feel it’s time for her retirement. Sorta like her turn to be put out to pasture, that way maybe my grandchildren will get to enjoy a ride in the county some nice warm Saturday evening in July, 2050 on her 100th birthday.
I would have to agree with those that knock the trailer queens. If all I was gonna do when I got her finished up, (which is quite a ways off yet) was put it on a pedestal and never drive it that would be a shame. I have repeated this many times, as Tim L put it, "I look at this old truck as a rolling museum." Rolling being the key word here but not necessarily rolling through the job site mud puddles or slush covered roads.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
