Crap More Work!

Well,.... Chris decided that her project of old ford truck restoration/rat rod was not a big enough job for me and because i am not a smart man I opened my big fat mouth and it looks like we will be trying to add a big yellow turd to this whole truck restoration thing......

Sooo...... I was our surveying today and look what I found....

Believe it or not, it is a 1948 Ford F-5 School Bus with the original stick shift and Flathead 6 under the hood. What is cool/strange is there is a metal tag on the dash that says, "Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs" on the dash, wish I would have gotten a picture of it.

Look ma, no rust. There is no cancer on any of the front clip and the only thing missing is one headlight ring, unlike our 48'.

That is not dirt on the floor, the entire thing is covered in some kind of rodent droppings. Hazmat suit and respirator are in order.

 Luggage compartments. Cool! If you look at the bottom of the side windows there are 3 bars that fold up and down, not sure what they would have been for, guess nobody wanted to go to school.

 The big red taillights are actually glass and are painted with, "STOP" on the inside.

 It looks like most of the side had a cool black paint job that tapered to the bottom rear.

 More rodent poop.

 Are your items secure in the overhead compartment?

 Flathead 6 with bonus pack rat nest.

Chris's idea/dream is that it would be re purposed as the "COOL BUS" for taking friends and family to the local HI-WAY Drive In for movie nights. I am sure the people behind us would just love the view....

Not exactly sure what will happen as the ranch manager has to talk with the owner to see if he wants to sell it or wants it gone. As of now our offer is to haul it off so he does not have to deal with it but who knows, the owner might have plans for it. We will see.