Old Cars Weekly

Memorable Wrecker

It’s been reported that only 10 percent of the population is into old iron. Not so for the other 90 percent. To the latter, old cars and trucks are just a piece of metal. For the former, such as Greg Rich, Jr., old cars and trucks represent nostalgia and are worth holding onto.

One of those old vehicles that Rich finds loaded with nostalgia is a 1951 Ford tow truck. The Indiana, Pa., resident remembered the tow truck going back to when he was 5 years old in 1954 while living in Kane, Pa. The wrecker was based upon a 1951 Ford F-3 bought new by Zook Motors, a Ford dealership

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