Was at a cruise in 1977, and while there this BIG fella comes up to me and asks me where I bought the truck. I told him and he says I thought so, I know this truck. I asked him how he knew it and he told me that he and a buddy were down in texas and bought a 1949 merc, bought my 57, put a hitch on it and flat towed the merc back to canada. True? I have no idea, but, one of these days I'll do a little digging