[Robert Haas]

So we made an offer and bought the truck. (My best friend and partner in our hot rod shop is partnered with me on this one)So we Went out to the ranch and with a new battery, a can of carb cleaner, 3 gallons of fresh gas and a can of starting fluid. We went out and attempted to bring it back to life. The plan was simple enough. We would air up the tires, fire up the motor and back it out into the bright lights of the San Joaquin valley. Tires (They are brand new 12 year old tires) held air, motor fired up and ran on most of its cylinders and with a couple bumps the pressure plate let go of the clutch disc and the the brakes eventually let go of the drums they had welded them selves to. With enough coaxing the engine made enough power to back the truck out of the barn.

We drove it a mile down the road, and filled the tank with fresh fuel and drove across the street to a coin car wash and washed the decades of dust off it.











The more I drove it the healthier it got. By the time we left the car wash it was hitting on 8, and idling like a sewing machine, no smoke, nothing. I planned to flat bed tow the truck back to our shop but the more I drove it the better it ran and I decided to just drive it back to Salinas. It made the trip flawlessly and acted like it had never been parked. Never got more then middle of the guage in regards to temperature and the aftermarket oil pressure guage said it held 60 PSI on the highway.