APACHE APPRECIATION
Pete Schultz had a lot of reasons for wanting to adopt the battered 1958 Chevrolet Apache his wife told him about back in 2012.
Pity was right at the top of the list.
“I saw it for sale and I felt sorry for the poor truck sitting there in that car lot,” recalls Schultz. “It needed work, but it was something that I felt I could handle.”
Pete and his wife Carol live in tiny Fincastle, Va., but at the time they spotted the pickup, they were still living in New Jersey. It was the last place they expected to come across an old farm truck from Montana. “My wife was coming home from work one day and said she saw an old truck for sale on the side of the road at a little dealer lot. She told me it had double headlights, so I thought that’s gonna be a ’58 (Chevrolet) and above. I went to look at it and it was in pretty good condition, actually. I think the truck probably had a lot of good luck behind it. I found out it was a Montana farm truck, but it must have been kept indoors most of its life in a barn or something. You can tell if a truck has been
