Indiana couple, Model A truck together for nearly 60 years - The Elkhart Truth
(AP) — They’ve been together a long time, Bud, Nancy and their truck — nearly 59 years. Their love story starts in LaGrange in 1956 when, in a two-day span, Bud was smitten with his wife-to-be, Nancy, and a 1928 Ford Model A pickup truck he found in town. The truck doesn’t look special: It’s just an old Ford covered in flat black-ish primer. “I courted my wife in that truck,” Bud says with a smile, pointing toward the truck as it sits in the driveway behind his LaGrange home. Bud just always liked the old Fords, the Model T’s and the Model A. For most of their time together, the truck was a daily driver. When Bud started a remodeling company, the truck hauled lumber and paint to the job site and then hauled Bud back home at the end of those days. Nowadays, it’s used to haul grass clippings and tree branches to the town’s composting site, taken on short trips to Lucy’s for ice cream, and around the area just for the fun of it. The truck always draws a crowd wherever the Hoppers go. It’s no... Bud loves to drive the truck, and says he couldn’t do that if the truck were beautifully restored, so he keeps it in pretty much in the same shape he found it — a little rough around the edges. Source: www.elkharttruth.com
