Lost & Found - Dad's '59 Studebaker Truck

Nice...keep up the great resto.....

 

You know I'm there any time you need. It's a bit of a long haul in the A. But I figure it will make good stories when we're old and grey

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so is the truck going to have the flatbed and stake sides back on it ? or did you find a NOS bed for it already lol...
let me know if I can help with anything from my side of the pond..

 

It'll remain a flatbed @rob-redm since the bed is the one my dad built for the truck. I'm going to try to salvage what I can from it; the side rails are good, but most of the cross-pieces are tweaked and I'm going to have to engineer a better way of mounting it to the frame.

Every once and a while I come across a bed, usually in the form of some old codger's farm trailer, and I think about scooping it up, but I really want to keep this thing dad's truck. I want to put my spin on it, thus the metal flake and turning the pearl paint job up to 11, but I don't want to change it too much from my limited memories of the thing.

 

Very cool story!

 

Cool!