What else would you buy if you sold your Harley

[NEWFISHER]

A 1950 Chevy truck, what else?!
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

After getting the orange truck done ( the one I built for my wife but I was always driving it) I had an itch to start looking for another project. Again, not a rusted out mad fab skills frame off job. A runner driver, needs some love etc. At the Led Sleds show in Santa Maria a couple weeks ago ( you must go to this event if you have never been) my wife and I pass a SanDiego Chargers blue 54 5 window with a pre 53 nose job and my wife, being a SanDiegan native , says " I wish our truck was blue, I really like this one". She must have fallen on the soft spot I had developed from her happily taging along on our 2400 mile 7 day journey in the 50 burb through Cali traffic. I said okay, ill post the orange crush up for sale and start looking for a new project. Whalla! Craigslist wins again! This time it wasn't in southern Cali, Montanna or in Washington at the Canadian border....Olympic penninsula. Took off last night after work and met the owner at noon today, struck a deal after a test drive and now I have too many cars/trucks and not enough parking spaces. Oh well, I told the neighbor I'm having tshirts made with all the rigs and dummy up a car show name, give them away to the rest of the neighborhood and they can be apart of our own block party car show and cruise inn ( he just scored his first classic at 24... a 55 Belair).

On to the plan:
Here's a pic of the truck we saw and then one of the "Bolt" ...Chargers not inliner , although it does retain its original 216 powerhouse complete with JB welded case, dinosaur replenishment system and the infamous " james Bond drives a farm truck smoke screen cloaking device" aka the skeeter killer. Needs block sanded and repainted in areas (most), wheels, tires, brakes, a different engine, trans, open driveline and a different rear end. Also could use 12 volts, a heater, a firewall mat, gauges that work and a seat. The bed wood is new ( PO kept selling me on this). The bumpers are original to the truck and I am now the 3rd owner. 1st owner owned ituntil 97 then the nephew got it. Still have the original Washington title! It does move, leak, stop and cough and its a good 30 footer with ABSOLUTELY NO RUST or a hint that there ever was any. Its bones are amazing. I spent more time under it and feeling all of the insides of the panels ( including removing the door panels) and their are no hammer marks or oxidation. Its freakishly cool. Just got home and have my Jim Carter, Truck Shop etc list going and hope to se a lot of the UPS guy in the near future