The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk MY 1966 C-10 WAS KILLED!.

It looks like I'll have to find another truck, because my 1966 C-10 was crushed by a falling Oak tree on January 14. There were hurricane force winds here in the Georgia mountains for a few hours causing a lot of damage in my area. Even though my truck was wrecked, it did break the fall of the tree, and that prevented major damage to my house.

http://stovebolt.com/gallery/ducor_doug_1966_02.htm

sorry to hear about your truck, at least no one was hurt,,,,,,,,that was a booger of a tree....Fred

That's sad to hear. If it was a new truck, i bet the tree would have crushed it and the house. Defiant til the end.
Brendon

Doug,sorry to about that .It has been really different weatherwise around here lately. i live about 3 miles from the atlanta motor speedway which got cleaned out by that tornado earlier this year. for a while i thought it was dejavu "all over again"

I just sent a final update on the truck, and hopefully it will be added to the page soon.

srry to hear man...

Doug,
Peggy will get to it this week I bet. Many condolences on the truck -- what a beautiful truck and it died doing what trucks do -- serving. On behalf of all the Stovebolt Staff, I just want to say how sorry we are to hear of another great old truck's passing. It was trully a beautiful truck.

Sincerely,
John and Peg and all the Stovebolt Staff

Wow, man. That's a drag! What kind of insurance did you have on that? Will you get enough compensation for a new truck?

I am sorry to hear about your trucks passing. It is hard to lose a good vehicle, espescially a good looking old one like that. My condolences on your loss.

Doug Sorry to hear of the trucks passing
As stated if theres anything we can do?
We will cause were Bolters AND we stick together
We can rebuild him
We have the technology

The roof of the cab and windshield were destroyed, and the hood was damaged. I suppose that I could get another cab, but I have decided to replace it with another 1964-1966 Chevrolet truck.

I will post it in the Swap Meet when I am ready to sell it.

I am truly sorry about the news of your loved one I can only hope that some of her parts can make it to another Bolt so that she may live on.
If there is any thing we Texas Bolters can do just let us know!

May God Bless,

Cliff59

Bummer.

I had seen this truck up close, it was nicer than mine... very cool truck.

sorry to hear about it Doug.. but at least the truck protected the homestead.

-W

To see the death pics of Curly's cab(Doug 57 emailed them to me),

go here:

http://photos.yahoo.com/woogeroo

click here:

Truckpics

they should be the bottom three pictures.

At least it caught the tree...

-W

My accountant was going to get her grandfather's truck of the same vintage until a tree squoze it. And that was a much bigger tree the way I heard it.

The Oak that fell on my truck was about 18" in diameter, and was about 60 years old. It was one the larger trees in my yard.

Doug,

It still looks better than my 66 LB FS. I'd suggest just hacking off the cab and making it a convertible, or would that be 'converted' since the top would be GONE.

Rance

that is awfull

Rance - that'd make it a 'roadster' .



-W

Wish I had your truck, I'd cut the top off it and then replace it with the top of the cab off dad's old truck. I helped a guy do that once to a late 70's c/10. Of course could just find a big bolt and swap the whole cab (big bolts are about the only ones around here that aren't ate up with rust).

Rob

Sorry to hear about your truck, a good loking pickup.

It is repairable. If you don't want to I'm sure someone on the site would like to buy it.

Thanks for all of your support.

I'm in the process of finding another cab for "Curly", and hopefully will have him back on the road soon.

Here is a link to the Gallery page with pictures of the damage.

http://stovebolt.com/gallery/ducor_doug_1966_02.htm

Doug,

Sorry to hear about you truck. Let us know when you get her up and running again!

I used to know a bodyman that would fix something like that with some straightening and mega quantities of bondo! He fixed up a rollover Austin for one of the apprentices. It looked fairly decent until they discovered that new windshield didn't fit the "new" opening!

thats awfull im very sorry

I located a very clean 1964-1966 GMC cab today. It is about 25 miles from here. If I cannot find a decent Chevrolet cab soon, I'll probably get that one.

cool man, it would be great to bring that poor smashed truck back to life.

Hey Doug Sorry to hear about your truck. If it makes you feel any better just think about it this way. Your truck gave it's life to save the house that it's owner lived in. There is no higher honor for a great truck!