Gary Borders: Driving an old farm truck is a labor of love - WWNO
“I want an old beat-up farm truck,” my wife said wistfully on more than one occasion. Nothing completely restored and shiny. I started looking last summer. Once I did a u-turn to snap a cell phone photo of a 1968 Ford partially restored and nearly flawless. It definitely fit the “beat-up farm truck” requirement. We called a buddy who has restored many vehicles to come look. I retired from changing the oil in my vehicles in 1980, after draining the transmission instead of the oil pan from a 1978 Toyota Corolla while a poor graduate student in Austin. Our free expert was not enthusiastic about the Harvester and started looking online. By the next night he had emailed a link to a 1965 Ford F-100 in Iowa for sale on eBay. The seller included a video of the truck tooling down the road, with Steve Earle singing “You’re the Best Lover That I Ever Had. The truck is bright red. We were hooked, and I began bidding. My BMC and I would go in 50-50 on the truck. Not long after we started dating more than seven years ago, we bought a Mini Cooper convertible together, also red. We won the bid for the truck for less than. Source: wwno.org
