Thread: Ugly but rare milk truck

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I stumbled into another truck/project. I purchased some 67-72 parts from a guy in a town about 15 miles from me. It was muddy and I had to go to work so we agreed I would pick the stuff up a drier day. I paid him and left. Long story short I could never get a hold of him and then when I did he didn't remember me paying him. I told him where he was standing when I gave him the cash. He said he would think on it and once again, I couldn't get a hold of him.

I knew he was selling a lot of stuff because he sold his property to developers. This guy has a lot, I mean a lot of stuff. A couple of weeks ago I get a call on a Monday and it was the guy. He said he was sorry how things went down and he felt really bad about it. He said he had a milk truck for sale that he had to have gone by the next day. He said come out and get it and you can have it for what you already paid me. I knew of the truck but I wasn't sure about it.

I went and looked at it and decided, what the hay. I have little investment in it and I've never seen another like it. I can't even find another like it on the net. Th next morning I went to retrieve the truck. It had 3 flat tires on the LH side and she was sunk into the ground. The guy had his hired hand bring his skid loader down to assist loading it and the skid loader is no match. I really did not think this thing would be as heavy as it is. Long story short I had to cut my fender off my trailer to get it on the trailer and out of there. The fenders need work and I want to make them removable anyhow. But now we are the proud owners of a 1969 Chevy milk truck. It is a C30 but has 1.5ton suspension. I was going to sell it but I think my wife wants me to build her an ice cream truck so for now the heavy pig resides on the trailer. Haha

The floor of the cab area is rusty due to setting for years with no glass due to punks breaking it out of it. I can fix all of that. It has no power brakes, or power steering. i think I will put it on 8 lug disc brakes and it won't have a spark plug engine. But then again, we might sell it. It's up to her on this one.

I think it would look cool painted white, with aluminum wheels and a big waffle cone painted on the side.

Man that looks pretty cool, and the body looks pretty solid. You sure stumble across some odd stuff! Lol

Just curious, why do you hate spark plugs so much?!

UM... Ryan?!?!?! I will have to admit, officially, I am speechless! Enough said. 8-)

Originally Posted by Driver50x

Man that looks pretty cool, and the body looks pretty solid. You sure stumble across some odd stuff! Lol

Just curious, why do you hate spark plugs so much?!

I don't hate them. I just don't have many good ones laying around and they cost too much to feed if you want to work them. I just don't know how you could justify putting a gas burner in this heavy thing and then drive it around getting 6mpg's and have no power. I should weigh it before I off load it. The box is steel and fully insulated and I'm guessing there is the weight. Maybe if I didn't have a few cummins engines laying around I would have a different attitude on it.

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Ok, that definitely makes sense.

Well and everybody "...has a few cummins engines laying around..."

I did some more research on this truck and from what I can tell, these weren't offered after 1969. And they only made 236 in 1969 anyway. So it definitely is rare. A good friend of mine says we should take all my BBC parts, throw it together and stick it in this truck. Put headers and side exiting exhaust on it and just take it to Good guys and cruise it. He said keep it don't sell it. I just might do that. I was going to sell it but I am starting to think this thing could be set up as a camper and haul a bumper camper as well. There are so many possibilities for it. It has the same frame as my Longhorn and this truck has a GVWR of 14k.

My Dad and I did get the old 6 cylinder running off a bottle of gas a while back. The old thing didn't smoke too bad and sounds pretty good. I happen to have the correct engine mounting provisions for a 1972 truck for a BBC so we will see. Haha I also acquired a couple of cabs over the summer that I can cut pieces out of the floor to fix the floor in this truck. My brother had some 19.5 wheels that have the same lug pattern and we put 3 of those on this thing to get it off the trailer. I'll probably put the other 3 on and leave 19.5s on it for now as they are almost free.

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Man, this thing is killer! Talk about an all purpose shop truck.

Get a shaved ice machine and make it a summertime mobile shaved ice stand! What a great summer job for the kids in a year or two! Cruise around GoodGuys at the fairgrounds, too!

Originally Posted by falconvan

Man, this thing is killer! Talk about an all purpose shop truck.

I did consider making it a service truck. A guy's tools would be secured and water tight. You could even have a work bench etc. One of my friends said it would be a killer swap meet rig. There are so many possibilities. I even thought it could be a light use camper. Attach some bunk beds that could act as shelves. Get a really quiet generator and put a RV roof top AC unit on the roof and be good to go.

Originally Posted by rspears

Get a shaved ice machine and make it a summertime mobile shaved ice stand! What a great summer job for the kids in a year or two! Cruise around GoodGuys at the fairgrounds, too!

That's a very good idea too! Allyson did want to use to as a food truck but I really don't think it would have the room she would need. I did tell her we could set it up to pull a trailer. Get an enclosed trailer and turn it into the food service area and use the box on the truck to store extra equipment and supplies.

I think I have the 6 cylinder and 4 speed traded for a rebuilt TH400 and some BBC parts to a guy around St. Louis. Getting a jump on it I guess.

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