Hey everyone!
Nicolle and I were out just driving around trying to get lost on the backroads today! Funny how life works sometimes!

 

Late 50 Flat 6, he has no internet!!!! And he bought my flat 6 sight unseen, never met me until today! kinda of crazy but...heres more..

 

Awe this was a nice Sunday drive !!!!

 

And no, Im not in any of these pictures!!!

 

Man, that is a super cherry truck! Makes me wish I had a flat-6. What's the guy's story? Did he do the work?

 

Wow, that is beautiful!!! The flat six looks great. Reminds me of my first F-1....same color even!

 

Great find, Jeff and Nicolle. Amazing what's out there that you never saw. I saw a Sheridan Blue '48-'50 the other day in Spfld driving that I'd never seen before. He turned and was gone before I had a chance to track him down. Stu

 

Wow, good find... very nice. Love to see the flat six as that's what is in mine. What area where you in? I've never seen that one. Amazingly enough I just don't see many running around here in Bloomington. You can bet when I get mine back to road worthy it will be driven as much as possible!

Rob

 

Yeah there are three more around here that i have seen, same thing as you Stu, i see them and then either i don't have an opportunity to go after them or they are gone before i can turn around!

As far as the owner of this truck...He only lives aprox 25 mins from me(Manito,IL area) he has had it for 15 years couldn't do anything with it until he retired. He had ALL the work done by others
He seems fairly knowledgable about the F-1's. He said the late '50 models came with column shift? it has the non-syncro 1rst gear and 2/3 is syncro'ed. I made him start it for me! its fresh from a machine shop and it sure sounded great! maybe when i deliver the engine to him, i can talk him into a ride! He is a SUPER nice guy and it was a little strange how he just handed me cash without seeing my engine or knowing anything about me. i even had to mention the exchange of information! Anyway I will chat with him again soon and maybe learn more. But it was cool to just happen to be driving on the right road at the right time! he was visiting friends where i took the pics/ met him. When i saw the hood up and heads staring under it, i just had to turn around! I will get the VIN next time out, if thats ok with him. He said he bought the truck in Bellevue, IL. funny because thats where my truck had been since at least 1964, thats what my title has on it. i also have an oil change(paper) sticker in the door jam that is dated in 1965, it had 35,000 on it then. now its up to 46,xxx something.

 

He seemed to me like he was maybe a farmer??? maybe?

Rob: i was in south pekin headed south on rt 29 towards Stu and Kevin and TARDSTER(lol don't know or remember his name yet!)

And what time in Fairbury? Stu or Rob. Nicolle is doin a Garage( NOT !!!!)
YARD sale....maybe Driveway....definitely not GARAGE SALE !!!
on Friday/ Saturday but she said i could go, but its kind of a catch 22 there...I think she is setting me up for failure! "oh it's okay honey...go ahead and go...i will stay here and take care of everything..." i might come home to a cleaned out garage! truck bike welders tools and all!
so anyway just asking about a timeframe?

 

Man what a nice truck. A drive like that would have made my day. Although I might have run off the road looking at it before I got stopped.

Thanks for sharing.

 

one more...A place in metamora,il (my original hometown!) did all the bodywork/paint. The place is called Diddly's they have a 50's style food joint there and a small sort of drive-in movie screen. they also restore apparently...its a pretty cool place but it would be better if they had a full tilt drive-in movie setup. it's more of a sit-in-the-grass movie screen.
here is a link i hope it works.
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i just tried it and its being updated...

 

LOL! me too! good thing Nicolle was driving!

 

Yup, that's a great link.

 

Nice truck glad you took some pics. too post so we all could see it. THANKS JEFF & NICOLLE. I saw a really nice gray 52 on ebay yesterday. Don't know how to post it from there to fte.