I photographed this old pickup truck at our Canada Day Parade a few weeks ago. It has obviously been restored as I doubt it would have looked this shiny even when it was fresh out of the factory. In the day it was built, pickups were meant as work vehicles and that was pretty much all they were used for. How these vehicles have evolved! Just as this particular truck would never be used for work today, neither are most of the new pickups being sold today. There is no limit to the amount of money or the amount of options put into a lot of trucks today. One could as easily haul manure or attend the opera in today's fancy pickups.
My friend had a truck identical to the one above, and when his dad gave it to him, it was a well used farm vehicle. He cleaned it up, had it painted blue, did some mechanical and power train adjustments, and we used it for our Friday night entertainment for a few years. I thought it odd at the time that we would be cruising the drive-ins in a truck. He was very much ahead of his time.
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