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If you’re looking for a nice old pickup to restore, try looking around a granary out west. The experience worked pretty well for Don Schweitzer, Sr., of Clintonville, Wis.
“I got this truck from a grain farmer from North Dakota,” Schweitzer said. “It’s just a plain-Jane truck. It actually shows 55,000 miles of use. I think that’s original, because, being a feed mill truck, they never actually drove it very far… only short distances.”
The farmer lived in a small town not far from Bismarck. “I don’t really know how he got hold of it,” Schweitzer admitted. “I found it advertised in a magazine. I called the guy and he said he still had the truck, so we decided to go out there and get it.”
Schweitzer’s dad had been the original owner of a 1960 Ford F250 Flareside pickup with four-wheel drive, which he had restored twice. Naturally, that truck left an impression on him, so he went searching for a ’60 Ford F250 of his own.
As if to show how passionate old truck restorers are, Schweitzer drove non-stop from Clintonville to North Dakota with a trailer hooked on the back of one of his trucks.
“When we got there to pick the truck up, it was about 80-90 degrees,” he recalled. “It was really hot and miserable to be there. It took us a while to load the pickup on the trailer. Then, we drove non-stop all the way back to Clintonville.” The trip was about 9 hours in each direction and about 550 miles one way.
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