John Loparco clearly remembers the day he found his 1946 Chevrolet 1-1/2-ton flatbed in a location that didn’t quite match up with the truck’s history.
“It was originally a farm truck, from what I can tell from the research, out in Kansas,” he explained. “It lived on a farm its whole life, and my buddy and I decided to bring it back to life. We actually stumbled on it. It had found its way into the Hudson Valley. We drove by, we saw it, we talked with the guy who owned it and the rest is history.”
The fact that the truck had spent its working days on a Kansas farm rather than in New York explains why it was in rough-but-solid condition when he
