welcome back to the brothers workshop today it's story time it's all about the
66 and the journey we took to bring her home before we get in this story go
ahead and subscribe the channel and if you like this kind of stuff give the
video a like in order to understand why I bought this truck you're gonna have to
understand what truck I was actually looking for in the first place and it
wasn't a Chevy he's actually a Ford my great-grandfather had a Ford F 3 48 it's
the truck he'd built his business out of we had a photo of this truck for as long
as I could remember and every time I look at it I thought wow that thing is
really cool he'll be awesome one day if I could actually fix one up and make it
look identical to that the time finally came where I could actually do that and
I began looking for a project truck and I found a few Ford f 3s in fact they
were actually 1948 they were the exact model an exact year but I also found a
later 1950s model I can't remember the exact year but it was the one with the
weird grille it's really ugly I'm not even gonna lie to you but I almost
pulled the trigger on it because the price was right I was a little skeptical
because I found it on Craigslist so I went out there and took a look at it
who walked around it and I was pleasantly surprised it was a really
nice truck a monkey line most of these things are rotted out by now but all the
cab corners were there the 4 was there you know everything was there except for
the seat needs some glass those are all things you could fix pretty easily
that being said we decided to hold back it wasn't the exact truck that I wanted
and then I found a guy locally here who sources trucks from throughout the
entire United States this guy seemed really cool at first seemed like a nice
guy I told him when I was looking for he actually had in 1948 Ford f3 and look at
it didn't realize how tight the cab was and that was gonna be an issue for a
tall guy especially if I wanted to cruise it enjoy it like like we buy
these things because we want to ride them we buy them because we want to
drive them and enjoy them not sit in our garage and stare at him so I sat in it
it gave me a whole new respect for what my great-grandfather went through when
he was working in these things so that truck has a lot of history with our
family going back to the Ford I almost bought here it was gonna be an
overwhelming task to get it roadworthy I would have had to hire
somebody to do this one which is not what I want to do I decided to pass on
that one however he had a Chevy 3800 it was in 1948 and it had a nine foot bed
man this thing was beautiful and it needed minimal work compared to that
Ford and had a patina that was beautiful so I already told him I didn't want the
Ford it was just gonna be too much by this time I really found a love for
Chevy obviously the shot trucks a 2014 Silverado well I was trying to make up
my mind between the Ford and Chevy I ran into this one on Craigslist so I gave
him a ring when I looked at it I was blown away absolutely blown away two
weeks went by and he hit me up and he was like hey are you still interested in
the truck I'm not getting any feedback and I'm like yeah absolutely we talked
it out I told him let me think about it for a second
and I called the guy with 3,800 and I said well hey this is what's going on
would you be willing to work on a price and he said absolutely not how dare you
ask me almost instantaneously he went from like the nicest guy in the world to
an absolute jerk that some of the things he was saying to me I just couldn't do
it and I'm not gonna work with somebody
like that and I'm sure not gonna give him my money so I walked away from the
deal I have a love for see tens that that 3,800 couldn't match
and being that this is a c20 it's almost the same truck it also ran in drove it
was a no-brainer for $200 more why not and I haven't looked back this I
couldn't be more happy with this truck don't settle if you want something look
you'll find it it took me two years almost to find this guy and I'm very
happy that I didn't settle because I almost did the number one lesson I've
learned from this if you're new to it and you've never worked on a truck
before you've never had a project truck before get something that runs and
drives that you could work on here and there minor things because if you don't
it probably will sit there forever until next time guys hey do us a favor
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