Just an Old Farm Truck

By Jim Hagarty
This beautiful old truck caught my eye at a car show in my hometown tonight. It is a 1946 Ford half-ton, built in Windsor, Ontario, the first truck built after the Second World War. It was bought from a Saskatchewan farmer in the 1980s by its current owners and was completely rust free. It has 56,394 original miles. The Ontario couple who own it completely restored it in 2012. It is painted the original Greenfield Green. When new, the list price on the vehicle was $1,022. The current owners refer to it as a “farm truck.”

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Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.