Fallen pilot remembered through truck restoration - WAVY-TV
About two years before the crash, Snyder brought a 1960 Ford F-100 back home to Virginia Beach. “He wanted to do it as a father-son kind of project,” said Greg Paules, Snyder’s friend and a fellow pilot. “He was a real family man, and that was kind of why we wanted to help out with this,” Paules said. “He got this truck and he had all these big plans for it. ”. Paules is one of many making sure the plans continue. For the last month, Snyder’s friends, co-workers from the squadron, and his teenage son, Brady, have been meeting in Paules’ garage to work on the truck. “The guy down the street that has the truck bed is in the same squadron,” Paules said. Paules said the goal is to get the farm truck up and running by the end of May. “We just want to make it reliable so Brady can get another 20 to 30 years out of it without having to do anything, other than routine maintenance,” Paules said. Paules said their plan is to give the truck new brakes, a new wiring harness, exhaust system, windows, and relocate the gas tank. “It will look like an old, rusty farm truck,” Paules said. Source: wavy.com
