So I have stared at stovebolt for a year now dreaming of owning a 5 window AD truck. I loved the 54-55 models and there beautiful front grill round fenders and running boards. I owned a few antiques in high school that I worked on, but now I have moved on to needing a truck and convincing my wife too. I traveled several hours from my local area going to people who have said that they had a fixer upper in great shape only to be disappointed when I arrived and driven home with an empty trailer. I live in Idaho and there are plenty of these trucks out here, but farmers tell me there grandkids want them or that "one day I'm goin to get around to fixing that old truck up". I ended up finding my project not ten minutes from my house when I went to this old mans house asking him if he had any old motors lying around I could fix up. He has lots of trucks lying around his property, one restored 54 chevy 1/2 ton and a restored 57. There was one truck in the corner I never saw though a 55 1st series
cab with corner windows sitting on a frame. I talked with him about it and he said there was no title and that it would be hard to get one. He agreed to sell it to me though and any parts from all his other trucks lying around the yard. So one complete truck for 500 dollars! And then he told me if I worked around his property he would pay me ten dollars an hour off the truck! He is also letting me use room in his shop and all of his tools for 35 bucks a month. So now I have the truck that I have wanted, all the parts to assemble it, a place to fix it up, and it all paid off already from chopping wood! I have a paint shop, sandblasting tools, grinders cutters and anything else I need to get going. So I have had the truck now for a month, I was able to get the title after jumping through hoops with the DMV and I have torn the cab off the
frame. I look forward now to making good headway on this truck with the help of all my fellow stovebolters!
