Pixel (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pixel) wrote,@ 2008-04-23 16:18:00 |
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No fair!Memories of an old truck
So I've rambled before about the old chevy pickup that was the last car my dad drove before his eyesight got too bad.
It was a beat up rusty stripped-out model Chevy C/10 shortbed pickup with a 6-cyl & 3-spd. It had been badly painted blue at some point in its highly checkered past. Dad drove it until he caused an accident that totaled five other cars(and drove it home from the police station). Then he sold it to one of my uncles, who used it for dump runs & such until the front suspension collapsed. that uncle sold it to my other uncle who patched it back together and continued to use it for various jobs. He was the one who had to break *out* of a junkyard by mowing down a gate wit the truck after the owner accidentally locked them in and went home for the night(the truck had a cracked plastic grille to show for it). It was used for the move to the house I grew up in. We used it to clear the lot that our summer cottage now stands on (with my grandfather, who died a year later and never saw the cottage completed). My grandmother once repainted it with thinned down housepaint & paper towels because she wanted it to all match again. It featured heavily in a lot of memories from my childhood.
When he turned 15 my cousin got it from my uncle. He and I tore it apart with great plans to restore it. He taught me how to drive stick in it with the truck stripped down the a bare cab on the frame, no bed, hood, fenders, doors and the seat not bolted down. Eventually my cousin got distracted by a '71 Chevelle and the truck sat. Eleven years ago it was sent to the junkyard.
Well aside from the wheels and the '69 grill rather than the '71 this truck on ebay is the spitting image of my Dad's old chevy.
Same faded blue paint, same blue vinyl interior, same cracked steering wheel same white-painted bumpers. It is about as close a match as could be without being the same truck.
Now that I don't have the bug, I could find room for a third vehicle, right? And having a dump-run and beater pickup is always handy, right?
So I've rambled before about the old chevy pickup that was the last car my dad drove before his eyesight got too bad.
It was a beat up rusty stripped-out model Chevy C/10 shortbed pickup with a 6-cyl & 3-spd. It had been badly painted blue at some point in its highly checkered past. Dad drove it until he caused an accident that totaled five other cars(and drove it home from the police station). Then he sold it to one of my uncles, who used it for dump runs & such until the front suspension collapsed. that uncle sold it to my other uncle who patched it back together and continued to use it for various jobs. He was the one who had to break *out* of a junkyard by mowing down a gate wit the truck after the owner accidentally locked them in and went home for the night(the truck had a cracked plastic grille to show for it). It was used for the move to the house I grew up in. We used it to clear the lot that our summer cottage now stands on (with my grandfather, who died a year later and never saw the cottage completed). My grandmother once repainted it with thinned down housepaint & paper towels because she wanted it to all match again. It featured heavily in a lot of memories from my childhood.
When he turned 15 my cousin got it from my uncle. He and I tore it apart with great plans to restore it. He taught me how to drive stick in it with the truck stripped down the a bare cab on the frame, no bed, hood, fenders, doors and the seat not bolted down. Eventually my cousin got distracted by a '71 Chevelle and the truck sat. Eleven years ago it was sent to the junkyard.
Well aside from the wheels and the '69 grill rather than the '71 this truck on ebay is the spitting image of my Dad's old chevy.
Same faded blue paint, same blue vinyl interior, same cracked steering wheel same white-painted bumpers. It is about as close a match as could be without being the same truck.
Now that I don't have the bug, I could find room for a third vehicle, right? And having a dump-run and beater pickup is always handy, right?
