JANUARY 2013:A 1947 FARGO 1 AND ½ TON TRUCK WITH A LONG FAMILY HISTORY

People tend to notice when an un-restored workingman's truck built in the late 40s shows up a car show.

Many people will never have seen one on the road because most of these brutes have been worked to death long before 2013.

We spotted this very unusual truck at a 2012 car show and found that its current owner was the grandson of the original owner.

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JANUARY 2013: 1956 CANADIAN BUILT CHEVROLET 1300 3/4 TON TRUCK

Temptation is the biggest curse of car guys.

There isn't a day that a car guy doesn't look at an old ride and think about the possibilities but fear, common sense and hostile wives usually outweigh the impulse to buy a project.

That was the case with this '56 Chevy pickup but after six months fear and common sense lost their edge.

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JANUARY 2013: AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A 1951 DIAMOND T SEMI

It would be more than fair to say that we do not encounter too many 1951 semi-trucks at car shows.

It would also be fair to say that most 1951 Diamond T 921N highway tractors hauled their last loads down the road a long time before the dawn of the 21st Century.

That's why we were very happy to find Barry Davis and his restored '51 at a 2012 summer car show.

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JANUARY 2013 STARS OF THE SHOW--A LOOK BACK AT SOME CLASSIC IRON ON THE SHOW CIRCUIT

There's an old adage that a bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at work...the car show is a great fishing hole.

There were some weather "events" (21st Century media speak for typical summer storms) that marred a few shows but that's part of the old car adventure and it was still better than a good day at work.

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