welcome pete.
awesome truck you have. and to think in 1981 a 14 year old kid would want an old truck, instead of say, a camaro or mustang, that is so cool.
looks perfect just the way it is.
also, you live in a beautiful part of the country.
leonard
Leonard-
One of myy dad's oldest friends owns a '53 just like mine, that his dad bought new and used for a farm truck. His mom had painted the truck with house paint, and he credits this with saving the truck from rust. After he had spent many years restoring the truck, I told him one day that I'd love to have an old truck like his, and he called a few days later letting me know that he'd found one for me. It was sitting in a farmer's field missing some glass, but otherwise in decent shape. The owner, Orville Balzer (no kidding...) had parked the truck there two years earlier. He went out with a new battery, and it fired right up. $800 dollars later, it was mine. The paint was already ten years old at the time (hardly anything left of the same paint now...), but I didn't care, it was
my diamond in the rough. The brakes didn't work worth a darn, but we drove it home 40 miles anyway with cardboard stuffed into the missing windows. I think this 40 miles was probably the best hour I ever spent with my dad, one on one. From that moment on, I knew I'd have this truck for a long long time... None of the kids at school "got it", but I loved it. And it still puts a smile on my face every time I get behind the wheel, all these years later.
I now drive my kids to school in the truck, and I don't think many of the kids at school "get it", but my boys and I love it.
Pete
