Old Cars

Kyle's 1955 Merc Here are a couple pictures of my 55 Mercury pickup. It gets attention everywhere I take it. The truck is one of a very few Mercurys that are stock and mine is Very Stock!!! I took it to the F100 supernationals where it took home a "Mercury Best-of-Show" and it has apperaed in many national magazines. I live in Houston Texas and I am in the process of building a '53 Ford and I have a '52 waiting behind that one. Kyle

55 Cameo found in June 2001 at GoodGuys 8th Summer Get-together in Pleasanton, CA. Truck is original V8(VIN match), Hydramatic transmission, original pattern (possibly NOS) red/biege interior, Deluxe heater, AM Radio and I've put factory stock Power Steering and Power Brakes on it plus I have a NOS outside sunshield to paint & put on it. It has Coker whitewalls and 57/58 bed trim on it, when I put some 3.38 gears in the rear end I'll ready to hit the freeway. Ernie  55 Cameo  Novato,CA

I have always had this thing for flat beds. I have finished the Chevy 3600 and it is all original, very solid with all new or completely rebuilt parts. The International is my personal favorite and I am in the process of restoring it completely. The motor is out of it at this writing as its being rebuilt. The IHC has been in my wife's family since it was new. We know of its entire history from when it was delivered to the International dealer in Dover TN. to be used as the dealerships delivery vehicle to when we brought to Oklahoma from Tenn. My wife's Grandfather used this truck to deliver the IHC H, Super C or C tractors he sold as a salesman for IHC. He would strap a C on the flat bed with the small front wheels right up by the driver's side corner of the bed and the back wheels just barely on the bed and pull a trailer with another tractor on it to deliver them. When he retired from IHC in 72 the Company signed it over to him as a retirement gift because he always favor...