Well, field find actually. I was driving to a friends house a few days ago and a couple hundred feet off the road I spotted this little pickup in the middle of a field. After knocking on a few doors I was able to determine who the owner was and tracked him down a few days later. The man bought the old pickup in the early fifties and began his work on it. Channeled, shortened bed, original dropped axle, juice breaks, motorcycle front fenders, split bones. He managed to built a neat little hot rod. He supposedly drove the car till mid sixties when he blew the motor. The car has sat since then being drug around from place to place with him. It has been sitting in its current state for the past eight years. I begged and pleaded for him to sell it but he would have no part of it. He insisted that he was going to fix it up one day, you know he won't. He told me that in 1962 he bought a crate chevy 327 to put in the car and never got around to it. He supposedly still has the motor sitting in the crate in his garage with 0 miles on it. I'm gonna keep on the guy and see if I can't talk him into gettin rid of it. Pretty cool though huh. God BLess
Thats what I was thinkin. Give him a hand to get that engine in and on the road again. Who knows maybe someday he'll just give it to ya.
and while you are there, ask him if he has any pics he could show you or allow you to share when it was on the road.
Hmm, 40-odd years of procrastination and NOW he's gonna find the energy to do it up. I offer him my encouragement.....he'll need it! Hope you manage to buy it. I figure if you do you've got 40 years of sittin' on your hands before you're just as bad.
sounds like a few cars i've found,they'll prolly wait until the body is fallin off the frame & then want to sell it & wonder where all the people went that used to want it.
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