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I inherited the ol' pickup from the first owner, an animal science professor who drove it daily to work and into retirement. My old friend has no kids, and while I was in college I did odd jobs around his property and on his vehicles. He's been saying for years that he wants me to have it when he's done with it, and the time has come that he can't drive anymore.

I remember when he had it repainted in the 90s, and I've done a few dozen repairs to it since then. It runs fine today, but it wasn't in a condition to be driven 250 miles last weekend. For now it's in my parents' tractor shed until I get the space to work on it. I expect to restore it like 1968, with a few inconspicuous modern upgrades. I've always liked 3/4 tons best, but this half-ton is a lifetime keeper for me. It still doesn't feel like mine, it'll always be his.

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Nice!

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I'm the same way. "My truck" will always be "dad's truck" or "the truck" as we called it back then.

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Very nice truck with a nicer story. Cool that it has history you can relate to. Not many of have trucks like that.

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Gig em Aggies!

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Bittersweet truck. Sorry to hear the donor is unable to drive. He put the truck in good hands.

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That was very nice of him! Great looking truck too!

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Great story and nice truck.

Hope the restoration goes well.

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Hope you get it home soon. We always need more of these babies rolling around our Texas!

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Very clean and nice truck, good story also glad you got it.

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wow talk about clean. is it as rust free as it looks?

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Nice truck!!! Remove that ATM sticker I bet it runs better! J/K.......\m/

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Nice truck!! And, as dan42 and others have already said, what makes this deal even better is the story. It was good of you to be a good friend and be supportive of this gentleman. Enjoy your truck, although you'll probably always think of it as "The Professor's"! :flag:

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A real beauty.

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Nice truck.

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NICE TRUCK!, Nice story and very familiar to me. I bought a '68 C20 CST from an elderly neighbor years ago and drove it pretty much trouble free for 10+ years. A little weathered and scruffy, but what a sweet running, driving truck. Paid him $325 for it. He'd had a big slide in camper in it. 327 w/400 trans. Sold it for $500 to another neighbor that owned a roofing company. He had it painted and lettered in his company logo and used it for many more years to drive around and estimate jobs. He liked it 'cause it was a conversation piece with his customers... and was so reliable. It ended up hit front & rear in a rainstorm chain reaction rear ender on the expressway in '04.

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Cool truck and great story.

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Agreed! But keep the BEEF sticker.

Nice truck.

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Hard to be humble when you are an Aggie..!!!
I bleed maroon.

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Thanks for the compliments. The old guy is 93 now. I used to sit and listen to his stories about growing up in eastern Kentucky in the 20s...moving with his family to Idaho in the 30s, then going under and moving back to Kentucky...being a national guardsman in KY during coal wars...WWII as a battlefield medic in Europe thru the entire war...graduate school...how much he loved Texas A&M...and getting old. I'm sure most of you know how tough it is when you realize those stories are lost to the ages because the storyteller can't remember them. Bittersweet is definitely the word.

No, it's not as rust-free as it looks. It doesn't have a lot of underbody rot (as you would expect from a Texas pickup) but it has a rotten cowl/firewall. He parked it under trees a lot, so leaves collected in the cowl and you know the rest. Some of the work I did in college was shadetree bodywork to seal out rainwater from dripping on his feet while he drove. That was temporary at best. A new cab is in the plans unless I figure out a firewall transplant is more practical.

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Very nice truck, it's cool that he wanted you to take her over.