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From: <LandBBall@aol.com>
To: <MPHUDAK@aol.com>; <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] young guys
> My 58 short Fleetside was built the same year I got my drivers license, at
16.
I drove it to Florida 14 years ago with stock susp (rebuilt) and 350/granny
4spd.
It now has a 79 Z28 subframe, 4link 9" /disc brakes, 350/350, the whole
Maryanne
(Wifes Name).
But then, I've been doing this from the start, when I was 15 and paid $60
for a 1936
coupe. Before the young guys ooh and ahh too much , remember that we only
made
$1/hour, and when you were building a hot-rod, necessity, was the mother of
invention.
I have a lot of respect for the restorers because I learned a long time ago
that it was usually
faster to modify or replace the original parts with newer more efficient
parts, and often
cheaper. Also, along with the skills involved , a high degree of patience is
required in restoration.
Tom Warner
twwood@bellsouth.net
oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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