-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Culver <sculver@iwl.net>
To: Hudson29@aol.com <Hudson29@aol.com>
Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Fresno
>Paul-
>
>Great story! There are plenty of them out there, just need a trained eye
to
>spot them. In northeast Texas, they still use AD gin pole trucks and
>pulpwood haulers on a daily basis, year after year, decade after decade.
>And they don't think of them as anything but equipment.
>
>Smokey
>'50 3600 5-window
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hudson29@aol.com <Hudson29@aol.com>
>To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 10:14 PM
>Subject: [oletrucks] Fresno
>
>
>> Last weekend I had a brief road trip from my SoCal home to my
brother's
>>home in Fresno, CA, a distance of some 250 miles. I have been storing his
>35'
>>5th wheel house trailer in my yard and jumped at the chance to get rid of
>>this rather large obstruction. I have another pickup, a Ford F-250 with 1
>ton
>>springs and a 460/auto/gearvenders over/underdrive setup that provided the
>>tractive effort for our journey.
>> Fresno is a farming town, smack in the middle of the great Central
>>Valley. It is basically a desert, made wildly productive by the miracle of
>>modern irrigation. The valley has been farmed for a lot of years, and has
>>lots of old farming equipment sitting around. I had been after my poor
>>brother for some time to find me an old AD to drive as when I was last in
>the
>>area twenty-five years ago, it was full of them. Well, I don't need a
truck
>>now as I found one just around the corner last year, but I did look
forward
>>to having a look to see what was available after so many years.
>> The routing for the trip was pretty simple, I-5 north to Bakersfield,
>>then split off on old Rt. 99, the trip home being just the reverse. The
>>oletrucks started in Bakersfield. I didn't see a heck of a lot of them,
but
>>they are still out there. Every so often, one would appear, parked next to
>>the other pieces of old farm equipment, awaiting it's fate sometime in the
>>future. The area gets just 9 or so inches of rain a year, so a lot of
>>basically sound projects await out there guys.
>> In Fresno at the trailer park where I spotted the 5th wheel, a '52
>>Suburban in almost completely original shape still labored on. It had
>>recently been painted and somebody had removed the rear seats years ago.
It
>>was hauling trash when I saw it, and the owner set and yarned with me for
>45
>>minutes or so. He had the truck for twenty some years and done nothing but
>>grind the valves and change the oil up until he splurged and had it
>painted.
>>It's hard to kill these old Chevys.
>> On the way home we ran into one last oletruck. At the very top of the
>>Grapevine a '54 AD howled along in the slow lane, driven by an elderly man
>>with a Frank Sinatra style hat. Yup, the're still out there folks!
>>
>>Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@aol.com
>>1951 Chevrolet 3600 Pickup Project, See it at:
>>The Poor Man's Advanced Design Tech Tips Page
>>http://home.earthlink.net/~conntest47/
>>Fullerton, California USA
>>AEROMARK - Need Rubber Stamps or Signs? See:
>>http://hometown.aol.com/hudson29/myhomepage/index.html
>>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>>
>>
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