Cell Phone Pictures

Here's a collection of pictures from my cellphone, taken over a period of half a year I'd say.

The Wagoneer the day I bought her.

Running out of gas for the first time. . .

Cody loves the Wagoneer, but I'm not sure how much he did this day. Late summer and out of gas!

When I first bought the Wagoneer it has a vinyl roof, as you can see. This was an option for early '80's Wagoneers and was apparently pretty rare. However in this case the vinyl was in too bad shape to save and I stripped it off.

This is why I had to strip the vinyl off the roof.

Getting the roof cleaned up.

 Looking good.

Almost completely cleaned off, just waiting for primer and paint.

This bike will be mine, or if not this one, one like it someday soon. It's sitting for sale in front of a pawn shop on Veteran's Parkway. It's a 1969 Triumph. The fella wants 4500 or best offer for it. It was love at first site for me!

VG30E (300zx motor) in a junk, obviously a victim of an engine fire, probably caused by the infamous leaking injectors. 

Old Chevrolet Pickup in junkyard. You don't see many like this in junkyards anymore!

Very cool old motor, in same junkyard.

Ah, my 1989 Nissan 300zx Turbo. In it's usual position on jackstands, where it spends way too much time.

At one of my fishin' holes.

Very cool old Chevrolet 4x4!

Our Jeep Grand Cherokee, where it spends way too much time!

Ah! Julia, my lovely, lovely daughter.

Inside of my Z before the swap.

Old GMC Pick-Up

I spotted this cool old GMC on the way to the Smoky Mountains. I knew I had to stop a take a look. The owners only wanted 1,500 for it, and it was all there - except for the floor!



Old Barbour County School Bus

A 1947 - 1953 Chevrolet Suburban school bus sitting in front of a thrift shop in Opelika, Alabama!

Chevrolet!

The "cab."

1980 Chevrolet Work Truck

An old Chevrolet work truck sitting on the scales at the Plains Peanut Factory (or whatever it's called.).

In Plains

Brian Mallard's 1965 Chevrolet C20 parked in Plains, Georgia.

1965 GMC 3/4-Ton

The 1965 GMC 3/4-ton (or 1-ton) truck that sits outside of Macon Road B-B-Q in Columbus, Georgia.

Cool truck! It's got a dump bed.

A lot of the 1960's GMC trucks were powered by GMC's giant 305 V6 engine. Really a cool engine, and apparently one that took a lot to kill, but horrible on gas!

The Truck

My ultra-cool, artsy lowrider magazine cover shot of my truck. Of course it doesn't quite look pretty enough to grace the cover of a magazine right now. Also, it's not - and will never be - a lowrider.

Old Chevrolet Trucks

A 1966 Chevrolet C10 short stepside bed. A pretty cool old truck, and while I do like this design of truck - and have one of my own a lot like it, this particular truck didn't grab me that much.

A 1958 or 1959 Chevrolet Apache 3100 short stepside bed. I love the design of the '58 and '59 Chevrolet trucks!

Parking Light

The parking lights on the new '65 Chverolet C10 work, as pictured here! Yay!

Looking Like A Farm Truck

The New Old Truck

The new old truck! A 1965 Chevrolet C10 Fleetside, and I love it! It almost runs, too - just needs a fuel pump and a master brake cylinder. This truck is very similar to Ken Green's long gone 1965 Chevrolet C10 - also a Fleetside.

It has a wood bed... the first old Chevrolet that I have ever seen that still has a wood bed. It's not the original wood, and does need a little work, but still - I think it's very cool. These old trucks used to come with wood beds, but most of the time people weld in sheets of metal when the wood gets weak - or just let it rot out.

A Chevrolet C10!

The interior. The black plastic was covering up the driver side window, which was "lost" inside the door.

The gauges.

The horn button... with the red bowtie... another "first time I have ever seen that!"

'65 Chevy in the Back Pasture

Stopped under a tree looking at the neighboring pastures. This is a very nice area in the back pasture. Would be a great place for a picnic!

The same location as the picture above, but facing the truck - and our pasture.

Same location as the other pictures... doesn't the truck look small here?

My Truck!

Above and Below: Most of you should be familiar with my 1961 Chevrolet Apache 10 by now. If not, here it is again. A couple of black and white shots. In fact, the first pictures I have taken of it since I have moved it.

I have often wondered what kind of history my truck has behind it. Well, I finally found out some of it. The other day I was sitting in the cab reading the Patrick McManus book, "The Night The Bear Ate Goombaw" when I noticed a raised square on the dashboard, where the black paint was peeling. I had noticed this many times before, but had never really thought about it - until then. I set the book aside and began scratching away the black paint to reveal - a sticker, (I guess that's what you would call it,) and it is pictured above. It reads, "No job is so important, and no service is so urgent, that we cannot take time to perform our work safely. Bell Systems." Finally! Some history on the truck! It was once owned, and probably originally ordered, by Bell Systems. A telephone company truck.

Due to the peeling red paint, I have always known the truck was not always red. The cab was a dark green. The bed was a happy light blue. I figured that the bed was not original to the truck - it's never sat quite right on the truck. It's the right kind, it just wasn't mounted right. Of course, my theory on the bed being from a different truck led to some disagreement from my "hired hand." Well, I took a look at the paint code - only to find SPEC - instead of a number. I am assuming that means special - and it was ordered by Bell Systems in that green.

Finally, I did something that I do not know why I had never done before - I decoded the vin number. Ah! My theory was proven. The bed could not have been original as the truck was ordered without a bed. A Cab/Chassis.

Disappointly, for me, that's about where the known history of my '61 Chevrolet Apache 10 ends. It was probably mounted with a utility bed by Bell Systems, and sometime later down the road someone put a true bed on it. I wonder how long it served as a Bell Systems truck. Was it used until Bell Systems 'broke up' in 1984? I do know that two owners before me the truck was owned by a drug dealer - which explains the happy red color, mag wheels, and Corvette engine. The drug dealer paid his lawyer with the truck. Then it was sold to Brian Mallard in the mid-90's, then I inherited it about three years ago.

But what of all that unknown history? I suppose I can only wonder!