Well - if you look past my pop at the truck, you can see that it was involved in a fire; from the back of the truck and up to the firewall. The engine remained unscathed and almost all of the front chrome pieces were there.
Story goes, and I believe it, that the original man bought the truck in Kalamazoo Michigan in 1948. Worked it on a farm for a short time before making his was West. The truck was not large enough for his work, so he parked it with about 4,600 miles on it. It sat and sat until the man's grandson got it. he put it in storage where someone set it on fire. The great grandson held on to if for a while before deciding that he'd never get to it.
After the parts truck was stripped, it was time to get back to the work at hand with the restoration.