Re: Steve McDonalds' "time capsule" 66 Custom Camper Build
Unlike high mileage trucks, these seatbelts are clean and bright Fawn and have nice working retractors. The seat - oh my God - I've never seen anything like it. Simply mint as if no one ever sat in it. inside door skin paint and armrest wear is somewhere else you can see indication of mileage - barely any wear at all. Best of all maybe is it is still wearing all four of the original US Royal tires it came down the assembly line wearing. The lock-rings on the wheels were Blue from the factory and at some point the old man painted them white. Probably when he repainted the white on the roof. The zinc oxide in 60-66 truck White cab and roof paint would react with the iron in the steel cabs, and the paint would pull iron atoms into the paint making the paint "rust" or turn orangeish brown. Many of you have trucks whose once-white cab paint is now more like rusty looking or red oxide primer than White. So this man saw that happening to this truck in the 70's or 80's maybe and smartly had it repainted. But the Blue is original and not touched anyway. Odometer shows 11,409 miles and is accurate. Usually low miles on anyones odometer means its 100K+ but that mileage can be told by observing several aspects common to low miles vehicles and most alleged low miles trucks are way over what they show but this one is the real deal
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