In memory of Tom Bowlin: the little green truck build

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Some of you may have been following along my other thread on the little brown truck located here:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=415708

I have decided to end that thread and open a new "build" thread. Tom, the original owner of the little brown truck (and a close friend of mine) has just passed away this last week at the age of 79. He ordered the truck from the factory and owned until I bought it in 2010.

I bought the brown truck from him 4 years ago and drove it daily until last April when I got into an accident. Since then the truck has been completely disassembled for restoration and has been sitting the past 6 months. Now that Tom has gone, I am making it a goal to have the truck back together by next summer so that his wife Lynn and I can drive the truck to the ocean to spread his ashes.

I'll post just a few quick pics to get this thread going.
Sometime around 1979-1980


The man and his truck

Sometime in the early 80's after sleeper conversion and lowered

New wheels, late 1980's

And what she looked like the day I bought it