Has To Be The Most Rusted Out Truck Ever

[culp7]

Wait so is there A build thread on this truck!?!?!? I'd love to see it

[thelonerife]

c'mon patina lovers where are you? Yall should be tryin to buy it and take it to shows. lol. I think there should just be a patina/rust bucket show. That way we can compare them all at once.

[Classic Heartbeat]

yeah, this picture dosn't make sense! I don't think it's possible to rust like that. Maybe it's a photoshop?

No photoshop there. This truck belongs to a customer of mine who's name and website has escaped me at the moment. The truck had and now has again a snow plow.
The truck originaly belonged to the owners big brother who use to take him out riding around when he was a kid plowing driveways in the winter for extra money. They use to fight and argue all the time as he was growing up, but they were very close. The two had a lot of history in the truck, both good times and bad. One day his brother sold the truck witch angured him because the truck meant so mutch to him. After the truck was sold he feared that he would not ever see it again, and then his brother passed away shortly there after.
He told me that one day he was driving around and saw the truck behind a chain link fence in a storage lot. He located the new owner and worked out a deal for the purchase of the truck.
Thinking of his brother the whole time, he completely restored the truck back to mint condition, buying what parts that could be purchased from us and fabricating what he couldn't.
I thought that he would store it in his shop, keeping it as a reminder of the times he had with his brother, and the love they had fore each other. Even though they fought frequently. However he suprized me when he said that he bought another plow for it, and plows driveways with it to this day. He said that was his intention all along, and he does it out of respect of his brother's memory. I will try to remember his website and post it if I can find it. But I still think of him every once in a while, and wonder how he and his truck are doing.
Thanks culp7, for posting the picture. WES

[1956cameo]

If those trucks were on ebay they would be called rat rods and have a $20,000 price tag on them!

[Classic Heartbeat]

Here is a more recent picture. WES
Here is what I was able to find. It's not the website but it tells the story of the truck.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3182583
WES

[Classic Heartbeat]

Found the website and he has most of the restoration pictures uploaded in it.
http://www.jakesgeneralstore.com/ima...-1968-gmc-2500
WES

[ready2go69]

Here is one of two 69 Camaros I own. It has a few rust issues also

[68C15]

subscribing, this has to be the most complete restoration EVER!!!!

[nuke1]

Originally Posted by ready2go69

Here is one of two 69 Camaros I own. It has a few rust issues also

I would be proud to own that, heck check out my camaro builds, if you wanna sell, i might drive down.

[Classic Heartbeat]

I didn't even notice that he ditched the original bucket seats in favor of a bench.

[FRENCHBLUE72]

Those are some rusty azz rides btw jyj good to see ya back on the board agian..

[hgs_notes]

I had a challemger to this. A 2wd blazer I got for parts. When I unbolted the top from the driver side bed rail, the bed side down. There was about a 3" piece of bed floor still holding it on. A couple jerks and it was off.


No saws were used to tear down this rig.

[LEEVON]

Reminds me of the trucks my Grandpa used to wear out at the fertilizer plant he worked at. They looked like that after about 2 years.

[Liz]

Originally Posted by junkyardjohn

Kinda reminds me of all those years i lived in michigan............... On a calm night you could hear the corn grow & the cars rust..

welcome back darlin. you have been missed.

[Jebb1978]

That is the coolest story, I have that kind of love for my Dad's old GMC. That is why it is still in peices and it was never near that condition.

[67ChevyRedneck]

Originally Posted by junkyardjohn

Kinda reminds me of all those years i lived in michigan............... On a calm night you could hear the corn grow & the cars rust..

WOOOOAH!!! John! Welcome back! There's been a couple threads started asking about you.


@ johnfabris! WOW!

[Pont406]

That's some restoration. Most rust I ever own was a 70 f-body. It spend most of it's time near the beach. Trunk was gone due to rubber mat and 1/4 panel was rusting out. I parted it out.

[Huck]

Looked at a Blazer in a scrap yard in northern Ill---Jamie_72 crawled over and through several vehicles to get inside this blazer only to get onto a bucket seat that fell through the floor with him on it. This thing had so much rust we couldn't find anything worth saving----I'm still laughing at the image of Jamie trying to catch himself as he went down and down and down!! hehehehehehe
Now another way of looking at this is ---rust put trucks into the salvage yards so we could get usable parts. If they didn't rust, we might not have access to parts like we do. Glass half full!!!!!---Now if it's 1/2 full of Jack---we're really talking!!! hehehehe

[junkyardjohn]

Originally Posted by Liz

welcome back darlin. you have been missed.

GLAD TO BE BACK & I MISSED THIS FOURUM & ALL (WELL ALMOST ALL) THE WONDERFUL HELPFUL PEOPLE ON THIS BOARD. MY COMPUTER DIED AWHILE BACK, & I JUST DIDN'T HAVE THE TIME TO SET IN FRONT OF THIS MACHINE FOR THREE + HOURS A DAY (YOU GUYS ARE KINDA ADDICTIVE) AS I'VE BEEN REALLY REALLY BUSY BUILDING THIS HOUSE. ON THE PLUS SIDE.... NOW I HAVE A NICE HOUSE & SHOP OUT IN THE MOUNTAINS, & IT'S JUST ME & THE DOGS. SOMETIMES I'LL GO A WEEK OR TWO WITHOUT HEARING ANOTHER HUMAN VOICE.(& THATS A GOOD THING) I MISS ALL THE RUSTFREE JUNKYARDS, BUT I SURE DO LOVE ALL THE GREEN & ALL THE CRITTERS. I HAVEN'T BOUGHT ANY BEEF IN FOUR YEARS, BUT I EAT MEAT FOR DINNER AT LEAST 4 OR 5 TIMES A WEEK. IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK & I CAN'T BELIEVE THE HUGE MEMBERSHIP SINCE I'VE BEEN GONE. JOHN

[MESS-HALL]

Originally Posted by Classic Heartbeat

Here is a more recent picture. WES
Here is what I was able to find. It's not the website but it tells the story of the truck.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3182583
WES

Nice read, thanx........hard to believe that was the same truck.

[special-K]

I forget where that white truck is from,but I have posted it her before.Yeah...Muy Rustido!

Originally Posted by AirSpeed

I am so glad rust doesn't grow here, it must suck to have to deal with it! Do you guys use some kind of rust killer? A rusticide? Does rust bite? How long does rust live? Does it stink when it dies? What happens if you touch it? Looks yucky! Other than metal, what does it eat? Will it eat people? Is it slimy? I hope it never migrates to Northern California like killer bees migrating north! That would be scary! People with a rust problem shouldn't drive their infected cars up here, I think they should be turned around at the border if their car or truck has a rust infestation!

In Fall River or California?The most rusted trucks I`ve seen were coastal California trucks.Here`s one:










laugh

[TCLARK]

Originally Posted by culp7

Don't know if ya'll have seen this pic.
It Speaks for itself
ENJOY!

[IMG][/IMG]

Dosen't smoke !

[fine69]

Originally Posted by John Fabris

I challange!!!!

this 72 GMC 1 ton longhorn was pulled from a yard located on the cliffs of Bolinas CA (north of SF) Note, the doors and top of cab came off during the ride home... Was a 402/400 which I still have and that will be going into my new 68 panel.

Dang, they must have washed this one with salt.