Im looking forward to sharing in the online truck community here and I'm sure I'll have questions on the way as well. I'm a Pennsylvanian that is stuck in Georgia playing army in the Atlanta area. My truck (and other old toys, all ramblers) is up in PA but I try to work on them yet.
I'm pretty excited about my truck project. It is a 1937 Chevy ton and a half I picked for a few hundred dollars... or at least most of one. I have the cab (needs roof and I just picked up a seat riser/floor pan) and the doors and engine compartment and the frame (which is pretty solid) and two wheels. It has a 56 Chevy straight 6 that turns over but I haven’t seen it run yet. The truck also seems to have its original transmission, however, it has a PTO and I’m not sure if that was standard or if it implies it is from another vehicle. The cool thing is I did get some of the back story on the truck. 1936 saw huge snow fall in the north east and the 2nd major Johnstown (Pa) flood killed many people and caused a lot of damage was caused by the snow melt. A beer distributor in Johnstown lost his business and used the insurance money to get each of his two sons started on their own beer distribution. This truck was purchased with that insurance money as the delivery truck for one of the sons. I know it’s not the story of the year, but I always love to know what brought about something existence.
My intention is to spend a few weeks this summer getting the cab put together and then slowly work on the rest till I have a running usable truck and then worry about the details. I plan on making it a flatbed and using this truck.
