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WARNING: LONG POST AND FOR A DARN GOOD REASON:
WHAAAAAAATTT???? That was my father in laws Truck who gave it to my wife not long before he died! I took the Grey Hound bus to St. Petersburg FL to get that truck and drove it back up to Greensboro, NC where we lived. We had that truck until we were forced to sell it in Murfreesboro, NC! WOW!!!!!! I am blown away!!!!!! Can't wait until my wife sees this video!!!!
We sold it around 2011 when we had to move to Colorado looking for work. We are now in Missouri near St. Louis. What a shock to see this truck! My Father in Law, Edward F. Silvia (1941-2009) , an Army Sargent retired, had this work done on this truck. He bought it new and slowly did all this mural and glass etching of eagles. He drove it to Rhode Island and back to St. Petersburg every year for many years. He also wired up a lot of stuff (CB radio, running lights, fog lights, extra tail lights, running board lights, etc) and got to the point where we couldn't run the truck anymore due to such heavy rewiring of lights and radios and other things (as you noticed). So we were forced to sell it seeing we had to leave the state and couldn't afford to rebuild it. When my daughter was 3, she started calling it "Trucky". Sad to see it go, but glad to see "Trucky" is still out there and someone rewired it and brought it back to life!!!! Ed Silvia would be pleased.
Where you see the vertical rust next to the door is where a lighted assist handle was put on (both sides). One of the many electrical add-on's Ed put on the truck. Also missing are the five teardrop shaped running lights over the windshield. Those rainguards were on when we got the truck. BTW, all that sticky substance was hard to clean, it was very dirty when we got the truck!
Also missing, spare wheel cover with airbrushed Eagle. (We may still have that in storage). Also missing, eagle painted rug and hood liner, not sure where those are. Now I'll have to be honest here, I do not remember the hand drawn ram on the back of the driver seat! Maybe my wife (Gwin) does. The rear bumper showing spots and holes where lighting used to be (14:10), were lighted when we sold it. Apparently a lot has been removed to resolve wiring issues. Also missing is the huge chrome grill guard on the front (probably stolen when it was sitting). We may have pictures somewhere of the truck in its full glory before all these things were removed and it was still running good, if so, I'll post them here for you (it will be a while, not sure where they are). Yes, I remember the broken rain guard on the passenger side, which is why we didn't reinstall them. That is not its first trip to car shows. This truck won many awards over the years Ed Silvia had the truck (I saw the awards at his house in Florida). The new owner said he bought it for $600, which is about right, we had a huge yard sale. Like I wrote, we had to move out of town and had to sell it.
It was an honor to see it done like this and it was the first vehicle in your new studio! Edward Silvia would have been pleased. Oh...an overhead carpeted box inside the cab with more wiring and where the CB Radio lived, that is missing too.
UPDATE:
Wife and daughter saw it, got really emotional!
The reason I don't remember the hand drawn Rams on the seats is because we had those "indian weave" seat covers.
The Truck was sold to someone else first, then they left it sit to rot, NOT US!
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