My Oklahoma adventure...

[TimE]

My family and I went out to OK for vacation the last week of May/first week of June. While there, I had the opportunity to meet 2 great fellow board members, Joe231 & Scotts62, and see there projects. It was nice meeting you guys, swapping some knowledge and hanging out for a while. Oh, and thanks Joe for bringing up the rear mount kit and thank you Scott for the great deal on it.

We did a lot of riding around while there and I saw numerous 60-66 trucks sitting around but didn't get any pics of them. The 4 door crew cab that Joe posted about was one that I saw that I thought was cool . Another one that I saw while there was a 62 CC that had a large horse trailer for a bed. It was pretty neat and I would have liked to get pics of it but it was a ways off the main road and the kids were getting restless so I didn't take the time.

I also wound up buying a '64 Custom Cab LWB and dragging it home with me.The funny thing about the '64 is that it was sitting two blocks from where my Aunt lives in Warwick. For those of you that don't know, the population of Warwick is probably about 50(if that). Anyway, when I agreed to purchase the truck the guy produced the original bill of sale and the original OK title for it. Unfortunately, the motor, tranny, aluminum grill and chrome front bumper was gone. The guy had used some of the parts on his 64 short fleet but he sold me the rest for a good price [$275(I thought it was a good deal anyway)].

I tow barred the truck home which went really well until I got about 40 miles from home. When we started out from a red light, we heard a slight popping noise and it went away. I pulled over in a parking lot to see what the problem was and everything appeared fine so we headed on out for home. No more real issues until we got about 3 mile from the house. I had to stop at a red light and when I went to ease forward before the light turned green, the Suburban wouldn't move. I got out to see what it was and the rearend had locked up. My Dad was a little concerned about it and I got back in and told everyone to hold on, we were going home. I gave the Suburban a little extra throttle and the rig began moving forward with the 64s rear tires sliding. There was a "POP" and it was rolling again. I ran numerous stop signs on the back roads to where I live to try to keep it from locking back up. When I was turning into the drive at my parents' house, the rearend locked down on me. I drug it out of te way and unhooked it. Talk about lucky! It would have been terrible if that thing would have locked down on the Interstate. I guess I can't be too upset that a 44 year old rearend locked up after sitting for several years and then doing 800+ miles at @ 70 mph.
Anyway, here are some pics that I took.
The 1st is of the 64 hooked up to the Sub just before hitting the highway.

The 2nd is right after I mounted the tow bar to the front bumper.

The pic of the Gold door was a $5 yard sale find. We were headed back to Warwick from the city on a back road, saw the door in the front yard at a house having a yard sale, stopped, asked about it, gave 'em 5 bucks and hit the road again.

The pics of the Suburban were taken at the Mopar show on Reno at the park. I didn't see the owner but it was a sweet lookin ride and I just had to take a coupla pics of it.