yuccales - thanks, I'm quickly finding out why dad was a lead foot. Fun thing to scoot around town in. We always got lots of comments on road trips. A stop in to Summit in Sparks, NV to check out some truck parts and one of the employees came out to look at our caboose.
gmc684x4 - the train was purchased from a local SoCal guy in 1971, funny enough the engine was completed in 1968. It's older than the truck! I don't know who the original owner of the truck was.
Grandpa ended up selling the train in 2007 before he passed, I was fortunate enough to get it back in 2017. Dad's first time pulling a trailer, just around town some. That's him smiling away, probably because he didn't cream anyone on the way home!
and speaking of hauling things around, I volunteered myself to deliver these CT90's to a relative in Lake Havasu. Also both older than the truck, probably hadn't been run since the early '70s. Anyways, we're getting ready to start the trip home, I'm turning the steering wheel to get out of their driveway and I suddenly find the wheel doing a 360 with zero effort. Oops, the rag joint broke and the steering column is now totally separated from the power steering box. I can see my relative's jaw drop, so here we are parked back in their drive way underneath the truck looking at this rag joint that's in three different pieces. I'm sure glad it happened there, he was a contractor and had the required tools to install a new one...plus some guidance, since I've never actually seen a rag joint before!