One thing that had to be addressed was that rear bumper.. in recent pictures you can tell the cancer is causing the passenger side to droop and the unevenness was looking worse and worse.
So that came off. Cutting out the cancer and welding in new metal will be a side project.
Now the problem was:
1. Not street legal without a rear license plate.
2. Looks bugly. (butt ugly) Pun intended.
So, off we went to a local junk yard to look for another bumper.
First junkyard didn't have anything from the 60s but at least I was steered towards one that did. Went there and was told to go to the far left corner, so we did. We found about a handful of 60-66 chevy/gmc c10s.
First few didn't have a bumper at all.
One had this, I guess you could barely call it a bumper:
I will go back and take that tail gate off to make a bench out of it though!
Then we found this:
Not my style.
We didn't see any more trucks so I told my girls we should head home but my 6 year old said, 'Dad why don't we look in the other corners? There's lots of cool old cars here'
I couldn't say no.
Not only did we in fact see many old cool cars/trucks, we also found this hidden treasure:
