Saturday, April 19, 2008

Boys and Their Toys

The engineer finally bought himself a fancy new pickup truck.

**pause for laughter to stop**


Okay, so it's not fancy or new. And yeah, it might have been manufactured before we were even born, but it runs great and will fetch all the lumber and other supplies we could ever need. And you know what? It can even fetch goats! And hay and feed and fencing for the goats! AND make an interesting conversation piece. What more could you ask for from a farm truck?

The young gentleman that we purchased the truck from was quite the character. And he had plenty of toys. A tour of his barns was a lot like touring a tractor mueseum, I counted at least eight. Did you know Porche made a tractor in the 50's? He had a 1940 International crew cab truck, most likely the only one left in existance. A 1926 Chevy pickup, a mere two years older than him he pointed out, he rebuilt the cab on himself. He retired from Allison Transmission back in the seventies and has been busy tinkering with his toys ever since. After we were there for a while his wife of sixty years "buzzed" him in the workshop to get back in the house and eat his sandwich.

I see now I'm going to have to find one of those buzzers...

4 comments:

Renee said...

"I never knew he was a pick-up man..." Joe Diffy song

Sandy said...

Nice truck! There's a whole lot to be said for a truck like that. Alas, I couldn't see the two pictures at the bottom. They have a red x in each of them. I wonder if it's me or blogger...

LRC said...

I absolutely cannot show this pic to my hubby. He literally drools over trucks like this.

Jennifer said...

Nice truck!