Here's the rest of the story.....
He bought it from a farmer in Kansas where it had been getting used around the farm daily. The farmer just got too old for the farm work and sold it at an estate auction where this guy bought it. The old farmer said it was his father's, and it's actually 3 trucks built into one......
The stake bed is actually the back half of a Model A truck - apparently from the first truck the farmer's father bought in the 20's. When it was time to replace the Model A, he bought the '38 as just a cab and chassis, and used the stake bed from the Model A. You can see the original frame rails (with wood inserts) still bolted to the stake bed, and the brackets welded to it to bolt it to the frame rails of the '38. Then when the original engine crapped out in the '38, it sat in a barn for a long time until the old farmer took the flat head from a '40 Ford truck he bought at a junk yard, sometime in the 50's.
The current owner rebuilt the flat head a few years back and "used some old moonshiner's hot rodding parts" to give it more power.
You can't see it in the pics, but he made his own headers for it. It sounded really awesome when he drove away........ :thumbup:
Hey Stump.... remember the guys in the '39 Ford coupe with the locked up brakes when you were down here a while back? Sure was cool to be able to lend them the tools they needed to get rolling again.....Gawd I love it when stuff like that happens! That car was badass too......
