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We moved to our own farm in 1955 or so. We had owned it for a while but my grandparents lived there while we still lived on the farm my father managed for his boss from his day job in the city. Somewhere along the way we acquired a pickup truck, useful for hauling our Shetland ponies around as well as the ocassional pig or lamb. It was a stick so I had to learn how to drive it although I don’t remember ever driving it on the road, just around the farm. It was several years old when we got it and it definitely wasn’t cool. Ours was green, pretty close to the classic Jaguar green but without the cache.
I never gave much thought to how we grew up but clearly we were living some fantasy of my father. He used to talk about someday getting a ‘spread’ by which he meant a lot of grazing land to run cattle. He would sometimes talk about it mostly during road trips or driving vacations. When I think back on my childhood, thanks to my father, I had some remarkable experiences which my kids never got in the ritzy neighborhood we chose for them to grow up in. My older son drives a pickup now but you would never get him to haul a hog in it.
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I love the color of the truck! It’s beautiful.
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I am not so partial to blue, particularly light blue. Our truck was green. I liked to think og it as racing car green.
I was anxious to take a look to that beauty but the picture is not there anymore. I have a chevy pick up of the year 1955. It performs greatly, I had to make big arrangements to the engine though.
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I don’t know why the pictures go bad. It was still in my archive and when I put it back it seems to be ok. The 55 model is when they started to get racy. What color is yours?
Oh thanks! That is a beauty! Mine is black. But I want to paint it of a different color. I will post a picture as soon as possible. My camera is not working fine.
I remember a neighbor had a 55 in a beautiful shade of Turquoise – with a white top. Black seems too somber for the 50’s – except maybe for a Lincoln.
this is the best truck in the world i would like to have one of these
I have a 1950 chevy truck which I am painting soon. I absolutely love the blue you have painted your truck! Would you please tell me the brand of paint and the color name you used. I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Karen
Unfortunately Karen, the truck in the picture is not ours and the truck I remember is long gone along with my parent’s farm. Ours was green, a bit brighter than British Racing Green.
Nice truck are u saleing it how munch can u txt me back thanks