I was going to continue the blog by showing and telling where we are with the refurbishing of our grain elevator complex. But I got a phone call from my dad about a week before the 4th of July that changed my direction. Hence, I lost track of time and haven't posted since then.
He said that he had a 1929 Chevy truck sitting in his barn that we could have if we could come and get it. He had intentions of restoring it but it just was taking too much time and he wanted to do other things. And it would go with our Elevator complex quite well.
So, along with two grandkids and one son-in-law, who, THANKFULLY, is a mechanic, we headed off on a road trip from Wallowa, OR to Coeur d' Alene, ID. It seemed to go well. At least no one got car sick and we only heard the question "Are we there yet?" seven times. When we pulled in, we found this beauty...
A 1929 Chevy truck that my father had taken down to the frame and then started to clean up. The running gear is good and it moved smoothly onto the trailer. We snuck the running boards and the doors under the frame on the trailer and loaded the working engine and transmission (seen in the photos below) onto the side of the truck and the back of the pickup pulling the trailer respectively. We strapped what was left of the seats onto the gooseneck under the truck and the rest of that parts and pieces, including the original windshield, went into the back of the pickup.
The thing about the 1929 Chevy truck was that everything from the back of the cab forward came standard. But the customer was able to order the back end in about any configuration that they wanted it. Some were ordered with actual pickup beds like this one...
and others came as flatbeds with rails attached (as seen below). We're opting for this one as we have the original hinges for the back-end gates and the other metal that belonged to the flatbed
