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Farm truck in for a radiator, a pump and wipers

A 1952 Chevrolet 3800 pickup at a car show in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Not the one in the story.
A 1952 Chevrolet 3800 pickup at a car show in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Not the one in the story. Photo: MercurySable99, CC BY-SA 4.0. The real one is in the original post.

This 1952 Chevy 3800 long bed isn't a show truck. It works on a farm, and it came into a restoration shop for a radiator, a water pump and a wiper motor. Everything on it is original, down to the smaller 216 Thriftmaster straight six. The radiator went out for a re-core at the shop that does their radiator and fuel tank work, which has been open since 1929. The wiper motor was fine. It just needed the linkage hooked back up and a switch rod. The shop bills time and materials, no flat rate.

It rides on Cooper Super Roadmaster 7.50-17 tires.

Retold from a post on r/Justrolledintotheshop. Read the original

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