perfect spot for this story...
so as a kid dad told about the time when the gas station owner needed a motor for his old ford truck. Dad bought a beat up 47 ford truck and pulled the flathead, putting it in for the gas station owner and "clearing the rest of the truck as left overs" so with time on his hands and a 283 powerpack chevy v-8 3 spd in the shop he put the 2 together- wah-lah a 47 ford w/ chevy power..... the thing would need more traction so he cut the rim off the ford truck (16") wheels and cut the center out of some oldsmobile 14" wheels and welded the 2 together-now we have 4 14" ford truck wheels and wider tires! couple that w/4 std trans flywheels welded under the frame rear of the rear axle and he had a bonafied hotrod....now all my childhood-preteen years and even later i heard of dad's old ford jalopy that would yank daylight under the front wheels....and I wanted to dupicate this truck to some extent...
fast forward a few years..now i was married, 1st kid on the way, and i found the start of my 47 ford truck...my dad and father-in-law both help me get the basket case home, and the father-in-law discovered that this particular basket case used to belong to his grandpa!...ok he's wanting to make a charitable donation
(it needed many parts) so we head out to a junk yard where the only other 46/47 ford truck in the country is-which happened to be a long bed 3/4 ton (why i hadn't started w/it) so after arriving at the old junkyard, i started looking at the body, rubbing on the fenders, then the doors-which is when i find an old texaco star...yep that particular old ford truck used to belong to the guy down the road who had the gas station years ago!!!-remember, the one dad put a motor in for, which STARTED this whole ramble....we talked to the guy and he sold us the truck-and delivered it the next day..well there's bs and then theres true bs this falls into the latter catagory, as the story of how we wound up with a 46 ford truck named after the guy who run the texaco station, whose nickname was "chigger"-that got shortened to chig- which was carved on the steering wheel of his truck!
used the cab, front cap, and doors off of the texaco truck...to make mine
now you have a very lengthy b.s. post---enjoy.....
