John Shaw is a Wisconsin guy who had plans to restore an old truck of some kind. Never in a million years did he think he’d wind up finding one living quietly in retirement in Southern California some 2,000 miles away.
Somehow, however, Shaw and his venerable 1930 Ford AA dually seem made for each other. Shaw is a salt-of-the-earth kind of guy, and the rugged, no-frills hauler is right up his alley.
“Well, we were originally restoring an older truck and we were having problems,’’ says the resident of New London, Wis. “And the guy that was doing it found this one and he took some pictures of it and said it looks good. We were in Arizona at the time for the winter, and the truck was in California. The other one was an older one and had a worm gear differential and a three-speed transmission and the cab was completely shot. This one was in better shape, and so I called the guy and talked
