Man Pulls His 1937 Ford Pickup High School Ride From Storage After 55 Years
After a bit of nagging from his oldest son, this man is finally reviving his 1937 Ford pickup he’s owned for decades.
We’ve all had things that we put away and then forget about, only to discover them sometime later. But this is usually a small trinket or something only valuable in terms of sentiment. Never do you see someone put something like, say, a 1937 Ford pickup in storage and then “forget” about it for 55 years. But that’s pretty much the case with Bill Wyckoff, as he recently explained to Hot Rod.
This 1937 Ford pickup was actually Wyckoff’s high school ride. He purchased it his sophomore year for the whopping sum of $200 before doing what every kid back then did – he replaced the original 85 horsepower Flathead with a more powerful mill – a Mercury V8 making 125 horsepower – and painted it yellow. The latter engine was replaced as well later on down the line as the young hot rodder continued to tinker with his ride.
However, one day, Wyckoff parked his pickup inside of his parent’s barn and pulled the motor with the intention of rebuilding it, but that obviously never happened. The truck continued to sit in that very same barn for the next five-plus decades, collecting dust and serving as a rodent hotel of sorts.
As the years went by, Wyckoff had sons, who in turn had sons of their own. Grandpa even helped them complete some projects, but his oldest son kept bugging him about reviving his old 1937 Ford pickup. One Saturday, that son finally said the right thing that prompted action. “If we don’t do something about getting your truck out of the barn, it is going to fall down or catch on fire,” he told Wyckoff. “That got me going, so we loaded up a trailer with tools and a compressor to retrieve the pickup in the barn,” Wyckoff said.
Amazingly enough, the old Ford’s tires are still holding air, and it has finally seen the light of day once again following decades of patiently waiting. “I feel blessed that I still have the truck, and we can’t wait for it to be back on the road,” Wyckoff said. “It was last tagged in 1963, and the plate is still in the back window.”
Photos: Bill Wyckoff
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