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08-08-2023, 11:46 PM
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 Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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East Coast VA Field Find
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.
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08-09-2023, 12:23 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Toppenish, WA
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Re: East Coast VA Field Find
I bought one in about that shape for 25.00 with a title 40 something years ago. It ended up being the cab patch panel and title donor for my buddy's 48 as it had a 48 3/4 ton title.
The gal who had it said her dad had had it and took it all apart before he passed away. The frame broke in two when we tried to load it and that and a lot of other stuff went straight to the scrap yard and pretty well got my 25.00 back and ended up with the pieces I wanted, my bud ended up with what he wanted and the nice lady had a pile of junk cleaned out of her yard. Still that 5 window cab is interesting if the other side looks as good as this side.
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08-12-2023, 06:26 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Lakes Region NH
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Re: East Coast VA Field Find
That's pretty far gone. Not much left to turn into a nice truck.
The stories are always good, though. And when it's a labor of love, well, there's no end to the work folks will put into restoring a truck with sentimental value. There are still restorable trucks around the northeast. It's rare they're found in a field because when the field is abandoned it becomes a woodlot. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...5146202791011/ https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...41851783686065 |
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08-14-2023, 07:30 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Motown
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Re: East Coast VA Field Find
mother earth was trying very hard to reclaim those minerals
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08-20-2023, 06:09 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Hampton, VA
Posts: 904
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Re: East Coast VA Field Find
If someone had found it years earlier it could have been a nice truck.
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08-20-2023, 08:58 PM
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