Old Datsun Truck

[Soobthang]

So the Datsun was all rusted out...... I often go the local you pull wrecking yards, and see vehicles that belong in a garage being restored rather than being scrapped, breaks my heart....... If I had the money, a big shop (on acreage!!), and a big big flatbed dually I could make dreams come true. I'm rolling Old School. Don't make 'em like that no more. Dying breed. That will outlive the competition.

[retro]

So the Datsun was all rusted out...... I often go the local you pull wrecking yards, and see vehicles that belong in a garage being restored rather than being scrapped, breaks my heart....... If I had the money, a big shop (on acreage!!), and a big big flatbed dually I could make dreams come true. I'm rolling Old School. Don't make 'em like that no more. Dying breed. That will outlive the competition.

The engine looked like it could have been restored, but we literally cut the frame in two with a hand-held hacksaw, I pulled the sides of the bed off by hand, etc. The cab looked mostly fine, and the frame underneath it was in "better" condition having been a little more protected, but I took off the passenger door and was trying to kick the driver's door open since I couldn't get the handle to work so I could take it off, and when I climbed in the whole cab rocked on the frame, so that's when I figured it would come off pretty easily if I just yanked on it. The transfer case had a big piece busted out of it (the original reason he parked it). About the only thing on it that somebody "might" have been able to re-use was the engine and transmission, and having sat there for 20+ years, you'd have had to put a lot of time and effort into taking the engine apart and cleaning all the congealed oil sludge out of it.

Here they don't really check for titles to the vehicles, but if it looks remotely drive-able, they take a picture of you standing next to it. I mean if you show up with a frame that's rusted in two and car doors full of mud from sitting in a riverbed for years, they don't say anything, but if it looks like the car may have been in decent shape recently, they take your photo with it.