Last year my wife and I started a small family farm on our property in southeast Alabama. Long before we started making products to sell, we had a vision. A vision that included this truck. It’s on our logo, but up until May 2019 it was just an idea. We had seen a lot of 47-53 3/4-2 ton trucks for sale, and fully expected a long term restoration project. We ran across this one on ebay from Minnesota. The body was fairly straight, solid, and despite smoking quite badly, the engine ran and moved under it's own power.
Since it ran and the dump bed worked, we used it around our property for a while until finally driving it into the shop one last time in January 2020. Our plan is to make it look like a farm truck would have in the 1950's with our farm name hand painted on the doors and original looking interior, but upgrade the wiring, engine, and brake system.
So far we have stripped the truck down to bare cab and have started the rust repair and body work. We have the chassis stripped down so we can rebuild the suspension and prep the frame to hold the Cummins 4bt we are rebuilding. Just like with the farm, my wife and I are doing all of the work together. I am teaching her how to weld, do body work, and rebuild the engine and she is loving it. She's even searching the internet for the "next project"!
