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I purchased this truck last November and I have an order coming from Jim Carter Truck Parts coming about every other week! I am really happy to work with them.

I bought it in 1981 for 275.00 it when i was in the Army it was in Elizabethtown Ky it started and ran when I got out I drove it home 45mph 3Days. eventually when i got the money to do it right i did. Here it is. I drive it all the time in the summer. it's still all stock. 216 engine 4 speed I had the motor rebuilt now it does 50 MPH. " It's not how fast you get there, it's how cool you look getting there" Not sure if the 2 pics came thru if not let me know and ill send them again.

I’m the second owner it was a farm truck in Grass valley California. 261 4x3x2 speed rear. Military bed with a Garwood lift. 55K original miles now lives and sometimes still works in Carson City Nevada

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The revival of a 1934 Chevrolet truck and how area businessmen contributed. The story begins in the late 1990’s with a neighbor asking if he could store an old truck in my shop that was in the process of being restored and for doing this I would receive half ownership. The chain of events that followed is how the restoration was completed. In the years that followed the neighbor passed away and I was left with a truck that was in very poor shape, to say it was in the process of restoration would be a stretch. Basically very little restoration had been completed. I made the decision to begin the process of restoring and rebuilding the truck from the ground up. The first item on the list was to rebuild the engine. After several attempts by a series of backyard mechanics, who were quite frankly were over their heads, I manage to find an engine rebuilder via a recommendation and that person was Clyde Wilson at Auto Value in Brainerd. In talking to Clyde I found that his specialty was rebuilding all types of high performance, vintage, and industrial engines. He agreed to rebuild the engine, and began the process. Of course locating parts was a challenge and between the two of us we accomplished the task at hand. I located a new cylinder head and assorted parts from Bob Marx Parts in eastern Wisconsin. Clyde also located a used engine which we purchased for a number of parts needed for the rebuild. Other parts needed were supplied by Auto Value in Brainerd, The Filling Station in Lebanon Oregon, and Jim Carter Chevrolet, in Independence Missouri. I also purchased some parts from salvage yards. Once the engine was rebuilt, including a cylinder rebore, new pistons, new rings, new head including values, springs, etc., main bearings, and other parts, the next item was to locate a body shop to rebuild and paint the truck. I decided to go with Larry Karpen and his team at Hickory Lake Auto south of Aitkin. They took the truck completely apart and of the frame and began the rebuilding process from there. My wife picked out the colors for the truck and Larry found the Chevrolet specification paint colors for that year vehicle. The project took Larry’s team over a year to complete. His team also did a complete rewire of the truck’s electric system. The next process was to build a box of some type. In doing my home work along with a close friend Dick Nubson, we managed to find a sales brochure and some specifications of a truck and stake box in the General Motors Heritage center web site. Dick then designed and blue printed the box and I set out to determine the lumber needs to complete the task. Once I had written the specifications for the lumber needs, the next project was to secure the lumber and someone to cut and mill the wood. I went to John Benson, a local logger and he sold me a number of white oak logs, size and length determined by Jeff Avelsgard, who then cut and milled the logs to the right size. Once the logs were cut, the lumber had t