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| | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 24 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 24 | Well i now am the proud owner of a 1940 1/2 ton chevy short bed. will 22k miles original and i have the original title also and am also the 4th owner of the truck. The truck was in awsome condition when i got it and now have it torn all down and am starting the rebuild prossess on it. well i got the truck from a guy who just wanted to get rid of it so now she is my baby.
1940 1/2 ton chevy
| | | | | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 77 Member | | Member Joined: May 2003 Posts: 77 | The truck was in awsome condition when i got it and now have it torn all down Yep, you've definitely got "Stovebolt Disease"!  I feel obligated to tell you, it's terminal.  There is NO cure! 
Just trying to avoid the potholes on the road of life!
49 Chevy COE
55 Chevy pickup
+ way too many other project vehicles!
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | Piper, welcome to the bolt, dont know a lot of about trucks but a lot of the folks here do,, I do know something about the Navy though,,,regards..Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | Three owners put on 7K miles each in 64 years? That is a little more than 300 miles per year?
Sounds like a great truck, but could the odo have been around once?
54 3100 with 235
62 flatbed dump C60 with 261
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 734 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 734 | Tony M, since when are you the devil's advocate? :p Wow Justin, even if the odo has rolled around once or ten times, that's a nice score. I'm jealous as that's what I'd like to work on next, late 30's - early 40's. What do you do in the canoe club? -David Kustoms-and-Sleds | | | | | Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 177 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 177 | Question: "Tony M, since when are you the devil's advocate?"
Answer: Dec 2001
Adios, Kip
Write On The Cross At The Head Of My Grave
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