Cecil the 1953 5 window / S-10 / 5.7 TPI

[oossuuu754]

Most of you know that Chris was injured very badly in a shop fire a couple weeks ago. I have set up a GoFundMe campaign to help Chris (AKA SKYMANGS, Ole Sarge) and his family with medical expenses. Please share this with as many people as possible. Chris was the first to help with any questions, lets see if we can help him out here: Chris Klapp, AKA: SKYMANGS, Ole Sarge

[99 to Life]

damn, that's news to me. Sorry to hear. I have a friend that was badly burnt at his work a year ago, he still is far from recovered. his whole upper body and head got hit. I hope Chris didn't get it as bad, esp the hands. This world has a very unjust balance.

[tlorber]

Shawn,
I had no idea that Chris had was involved with a shop accident. That sucks.
I'm not that proficient with Crowd funding and all that, but do you have an address where people could send a check to help him out?

Thanks,
Todd.

[oossuuu754]

Originally Posted by tlorber

Shawn,
I had no idea that Chris had was involved with a shop accident. That sucks.
I'm not that proficient with Crowd funding and all that, but do you have an address where people could send a check to help him out?

Thanks,
Todd.

Here is Chris Klapp's Address if anyone wants to send him a card or something.

692 NW 100 Rd.
Centerview, MO 64019

We have about $800 gathered so far, thank you. It would be great if we could hit the goal of $5k

[oossuuu754]

Let's see if we can get this ball rolling again. We need about $1900 to get the $5000 goal. Please share this and lets help out Chris. He is making some progress but is still facing a long recovery battle. Please donate here: http://gofundme.com/c49h5mjx8

[oossuuu754]

Updated from Chris' Wife. We still need about $2k to hit the $5k goal

By Jennifer Klapp — Aug 27, 2015 10:45am


So naturally things have changed since the beginning of the week. He is no longer having the skin flap done until they can get this infection in and around his lungs resolved. So tomorrow Chris will be having surgery to have the fluid that developed on the outside of his lungs removed. Then in a couple of weeks once infection is not a worry they will do the skin flap on his elbow.

Every day he is becoming more aware of everything around him. Yesterday I got to tell him about what has happened since he has been in the hospital. How there was a time when we didn't know if he was going to make it through the night. It was a little hard and I don't know how much he understood. Probably more than I believe he understood.

Thank you for all the support and prayers that you all have been sending our direction.

[DeanTX]

Shawn, what size wheel spacer is used on the rear of Cecil?

[WorkinWrenchs]

Shawn great build and I hope that Chris has a speedy recovery. That is horrible what happened but glad to hear that Chris is getting better everyday. I just got my 53 5 window on Tuesday and my S10 donor yesterday so I cant wait to get started but have so many questions for Chris and you, if you have time.

[SKT]

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Any updates on Cecil?

Getting to log some trouble free miles on it?

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[skymangs]

For all of you kept me and mine in your thoughts and prayers, thank you. I am slowly recovering. It will be a while before I am building any trucks though. LOL

[skymangs]

shawn, is Cecil still going strong? I'll be briefly in OKC on the 18th of oct would of course love to see you (and mayap Cecil). my son's graduating basic in fort sill on the 19th.

[iowaboynca]

Wow...it's been that long since Cecil was done? Time flies...

[vintovka]

FWIW had i known i was going to have to add a vacuum booster pump on mine (for the brakes) i woulda kept the old vacuum wipers. New electrics are just ok but miss the old whoosh-whoosh sound iva had over these last 50 years

[oossuuu754]

Not sure if anyone is still following this thread but I have decided to explore the market and see if anyone might be interested in buying Cecil. I have to many “toys” and Cecil doesn’t get the attention he deserves. He is basically the same as the thread build except we went back to a carburetor setup.

Shawn

[99 to Life]

Id love to have that truck but way too many irons in the fire for me. Im sure you won't have any trouble selling it. I still have a dash hanging in my shop I got from Chris.

[oossuuu754]

Originally Posted by 99 to Life

Id love to have that truck but way too many irons in the fire for me. Im sure you won't have any trouble selling it. I still have a dash hanging in my shop I got from Chris.

I may just send Cecil an auction, although I would rather it go to someone who followed the build and was a fan of Chris’ ability to merge the S10 frames with these old bodies.