8Feb17    This is my second day as a blogger. I haven’t even told anyone about this. It is mostly for car guys and not necessarily old ones. Everyone who enjoys old cars and hot rodding is likely to find this project interesting.

The typical build about a car blog is ordered chronologically, and so will this one. I am behind right now and can’t always accurately reconstruct past dates. But when I am caught up, I’ll begin posting in real time or close to it. So follow along here.

This is a 1935 Dodge pickup–common in its day and unpretentious. It fought with Ford and Chevy for market share. I bought it for what is probably the equivalent of $5,000 in Haxtun, Colorado. You haven’t heard of the place. It isn’t much but the seller had a large garage full of old cars. He’s a good guy and a hoarder of old hot rods. I’m glad he sold me the truck in order to make room for something else. That might seem a huge sum to pay for a rusted out, non running, derelict but I think it was a reasonable price. The body panels were all there although in rough shape. Rust most mostly exterior–the kind you see in the west when cars sit out in the open and not directly on dirt.

That cold piece of rusted metal looked great to me when I first say it advertised on eBay Motors. Katie sent a photo of it occupying a position of great honor on her doorstep. You will be seeing  photos of the truck as it made its way on top of or inside trailers from Haxtun, to Fort Collins in Colorado and then to the other side of the mountains in Ephraim, Utah where it currently resides inside Ralph Derico’s KAR Restorations.

When we got it inside Ralph’s shop, the bed and front sheet metal came off. More photos were taken to document the total dismantling. We decided to sell for scrap metal the old engine and various other heavy suspension and drive train bits.

Wheels and tires are old motorcycle items that the seller stuck on there. The frame is straight and shows not signs of repair. Body is good–we’ve seen a lot worse.  Ralph is happy with it.