A LITTLE FACT, MAYBE A LITTLE FICTION

In 1987 I purchased this truck from an elderly couple who had used it to pull a camper for most of it's newer  years. They had just rebuilt the engine about 6 months prior to my purchase and the rest of the mechanicals were in really good shape. The mileage was a true 59432 on the odometer. The sheet metal was a different story. The bed was held together by at least for rolls of duct tape from all the rust that had taken it's toll over the years. The same thing for the doors and one fender and both floor pans where starting to look like a Fred Flintstone car. As the truck sits on my homepage, it has some after market body panels and a used bed from Greensboro, N.C. which I bought from an old follow who ran a junk yard. A buddy of mine and I needing a road trip decided to head south to find some body parts.

We ended up in Greensboro and stopped in this place and I new right away I had found paradise. Acres of old Ford trucks! Well I finally found a bed that wasn't to bad and ended up paying this guy $75.00 for it. The problem was how to get it back to Columbus, Oh., remember I had 200 pounds of duct tape and a little bit of rusted steel for a bed. Yes we took the truck with us on the road trip, might as well check out how it runs, right! The old junk yard owner was sitting in his easy chair, drinking Bud and swattin' flies and he and I came to terms that if I bought him a case of Bud and paid his two sons $25.00, they would cut my old bed off and putt my new one on. This seemed most agreeable to me. That leads to a story of how we were stopped in West Virginia by the state police for having no tails lights on the way home. I will save that for later.