March 2, 2010

yellow truck

This appears to be about a 1959 4400 Chevrolet truck. In high school I drove a 1959 Chevrolet pickup. My parents never bought me a car but I could drive whatever wasn't being used on the farm. I wasn't proud. The pickup was green with yellow wheels; my dad had wrecked it so the driver's side was crinkled. It had 4-in-the-floor but that just meant first gear was for grannies and pushing over telephone poles. It's one-time max speed was 78 mph down the overpass at the Shallowater road. The radio worked great if you remembered to put a fuse in and you had to check the brake fluid under the driver's side floor mat often. For one who valued transportation, the pickup was great. It made a few circles around the Hi-D-Ho and the Abernathy Dairy Mart.