In 1947 this truck loaded with a flathead was chopped an lowered Painted black and green and decaled with Bardahl In 1958 Richard Hicks bought the truck
and decided to drop a 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket with
4 Stromsburg 97's on a Horne Intake, backed by a Cadillac LaSalle top loader. With a Auburn Dash and 51 Merc. steering wheel. It was quite the looker. As a child I would walk home from school and stand on the runner board and peer in the window. When that truck went down the road It would turn every head in town. At 7 years old I was hooked. Since then I've owned just about every hot car I could buy but always in the back of my mind I wondered what it would be like to drive that 33 Ford Pick-up. for over 30 years I asked Richard If he would sell it. The first time I asked I was 18, he just laughed. Finely 30 years later, he decided the only way to get rid of that pesky kid was to sell what he called his " First Born ".