Mechanical Heritage and Abandoned Truck

>> In the 50s. Uh he bought this property. I think he built this shop around 1950 or something like that. But he was uh his father was a mechanic actually. His father was uh in Pittsburgh. He was the old Studebaker factory. He was a one of the head foreman there. But he learned his skills from his father. But he had an innate mechanical genius about himself. Anyway, >> so your grandfather was from Pittsburgh. >> He's from D. My grandfather's really from uh um down in Great Falls, South Carolina. Down that way. Rock Hill. >> Oh, >> that's where he's from. And uh >> which truck was hauling this trailer? >> Well, that truck and other truck we had all trucks and stuff. That truck right there. Went all over as far as California with that truck. Got about 5 miles to the gallon. But uh >> Do you ride with him on the road, too? >> Yeah. Everything. I did everything with my father. I did everything with him. What's the axle buried in the ground for? >> We had a dog. >> Oh, really? >> Yeah. >> Chain up the dog at home. >> That's cool. >> Just stuff like that, you know. You got to need need a place to tie up the dog. Let's just bury an axle. >> The chain big chain on, you know. >> Yeah. This this one thing about this truck was you could carry uh instead of taking two vehicles, we could put cuz it's a dual seater and we put uh and it had air condition on it too. They actually had an air conditioning unit. Uh it was air conditioned and uh had two seats in it and it had dual tanks and uh we had our little eight track tape player with balon in there and back seat. We having four people on that. Well, we could car six or seven people in this and I had to car another >> What year did he buy this from the petties? >> Uh, I don't know. Let's see. Plumouth gave uh dodge gave Richard this truck and then when he got the the trucks that he could drive up on. So, he sold my father this I would say. um 64 65 something like that. I don't remember the exact year but it came in handy. I mean you know it just run a lot of gate with Ronda. I mean it was it was a it was really it was really nice. It was upgrade for us you know cuz like I said we could instead of taking two vehicles we could put everything we needed. It was a garage on wheels and everything, all the equipment was inside this this this truck. I mean, this was high-tech for the 60s. You got air conditioning.…