It certainly was an adventure. It's somewhat difficult to believe it actually happened. Pictures tho, are the proof. If your not from Oregon you may have trouble picturing 5 mile, 7% downgrades on the back roads. That's what keeps life interesting when you have a load like this.
The truck has a 5 spd. 1st is all the way to the right and down, second is all the way to the left and up. Weird shift pattern. Plus there is a dir under 5th on the pattern sticker. What I like most about the truck is it hasn't been messed with up with a torch and welding rod. There are a few holes that need to be filled where there were extra emergency lights added on the fender and cab top.
I'm not positively sure but yellow appears to be the 1st color it was painted. Being a USAF truck, and that flight line trucks were yellow....it could have been one. Then came a red, then the white.
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