47-55.1 East Coast VA Field Find

[Robert Crandall]

I am continually envious when I find articles about people who brought a truck (any truck, of all makes) in from the field where it sat for 50 years then made a very nice truck out of it. I was alerted a couple of weeks ago that a local salvage yard had just received an early Chevy 50's truck, so I had a look. In east coast Virginia it is almost unheard of to find a field truck at all, but one did turn up there. Note the stance. The driver's side of the frame is rusted completely away between what remains of the cab and the bed.