Hey guys how's it going so it's come to the time that krusty is going to move on to bigger and better things. It's a little sad, but also exciting at the same time. But it's moving on to a new home and just give a quick little back story on krusty. You get people who are not familiar with the videos and everything that was put together on the truck i've had about 17 years about 12 years ago, brought it in and did a restoration on it.

It was rotted to death. The only thing was attached was the driver's door. All the other gates were rotted off of it. The drive the passenger's door had half a hinge holding it all that kind of thing.

So it's been all stitched back together and then i, the new metal that was put on it, was patina just to match the rest of the truck the writing on the truck. You could not read it when i got, it was all kind of covered with a red oxide primer. You can kind of tell it said something in the front, but you couldn't see what any of the gates or the door set on it. So goof off and scotch brite took all that off see.

If i shined you find just some, you can see something right there right there still left behind, but that covered all the writing on it. My guess is a plumber or a painter rather had it after the lumber company, and he did not want to drive around with the writing on the truck, so he just kind of shot over to cover it up. If you look on the inside of the truck, you can see that the gates have paint all running down it. Give me an example: bottom of the gates, like i said, were all rotted out.

I re-welded new metal back in there and then kind of aged it. The decking was all gone. You get through a body in the back of the truck, it would have hit the ground. It was that bad, so all that's been replaced and whatever i could save i saved so the outside skin.

All the way around is the original stuff original paint and lettering. Well, it's been doing me very well put my antique bikes on the back of it for again the last 12 years or so, and it's been a great show piece for me, but it is time for it to move on we're going to go back to the Shop, i got to go anthony, get out start getting all the my uh goodies out of it so that it can go to his new home, and maybe we do a little bit more explaining there got to get it loaded up on a trailer and drop it Off so now i get to have the pleasure of emptying it out from all the years of collecting stuff, tucked away in its little corners and crevices. So the cap shouldn't be too bad, not much room to really hide stuff in there's a package tray shelf. It's got a bunch of junk packed up underneath there then up on the visor.

There is just the paperwork for the truck registration and insurance and that kind of stuff we go get that out of there. But then, where most of it's going to be is what's called the treasure chest, that's the space underneath the bed, it's about five foot by four foot by about 18 inches tall, that's pretty packed and behind the seat. I was wondering where the small engine parts went. It's only been seven years still lost them.

This area is the treasure chest. This is where most of the stuff should be hidden and it should have a little bit of everything: the bw bus, cooler, spear gas for the bikes. I don't remember wheel bearings for this. Any self-respecting vw guy, you have a full assortment of tools and parts that he travels with have a little bit of weight to them.

He's got to tow somebody off the road or get choked off the road or bondage forget what that is. Mother nature never want to get wet and deep in the bowels, because i think this one's parts also actually wasn't as bad as i thought. There's something else, the jack wrapped up in the rag in there and then a spare tire. That's attached to the floor and bolted down a little bit of sweeping out, i'm not going to wash the whole thing, but i can at least get the bug boogers off the windshield there you go.

Let's take a quick look at the business end of uh. Originally, this one came with a 36 horse and it has a 54 50 or whatever you want to call it. It's a 1600 with 1641 jugs and it's got ratio rockers on it gives it a little bit more helps it uh hold the valves, uh deeper, open. Unless it debris just a little bit better and it's been decent in here, they're underpowered as they are with the uh this engine, you can imagine what it was like with the so i still have the 36 it's out of.

I think when i looked it up at 57., the 59 36 horses had a problem with. I think it was oil pressure they all kind of blew up. I actually think they had a recall on them, so it's kind of rare to find one that still has its original engine anyway, this guy retrofitted, in there it's 12 volt, and it's done it quite well. It's held up fairly nice, it's geared low, it's in third gear, you're 20 miles an hour you're in third gear already, so you can imagine how much it's screaming at with just a four speed.

At 55. uh bus has what's called the gear reductions on the end of it or portal axles. So it's a regular beetle setup, but then, when it goes to the outer wheels, it runs to a gear reduction that knocks it down at probably about 20 percent. So say if a beetle's running at 70 mile an hour, this could only do maybe 55 miles an hour for that same engine rpm, so it's great around town and the highway, not so much.

But that's what it's supposed to another thing. I, like that's cool about this truck, is the gates drop down all the way around? It's got a little latches on it flip up and it turns into a flatbed this one's really good too, because when you flip it down, it has a step on it to help you get in it. So for loading it it's awesome. I wish my regular pickup truck did that right now also makes it easy to back up to looks better with the gates.

Up, though, doesn't it i had replaced the bed. The bed was all rotted out. It would have been like a corrugated, corrugated metal kind of stuffed all the way through they had wooden slats on it and then in the wooden slots they had screws that were drilled through. So what happened? Was the wooden slats rotted out the screws kind of get loose and fell out and then water would go in because it was the lowest point and it would take out the lower floor.

That's why the lower section was totally blown out. So when i replaced it, i put all new beams going across on the inside probably should have showed you that earlier and with that sealed it up. I did a solid piece of metal on top and there's no everywhere as a plug, weld. There's no uh moisture.

You can get through down to the lower level anymore and then i just did a bunch of tie downs. I hauled a bunch of bikes on this, so i wanted different places to be able to lock stuff down. So i just added all that the gates, i said were all rotted out. You can see where i stitched in one by two on all of it and i'll, let it age just to match the rest of the truck.

So i was building the bed of the truck i actually kind of modified it a little bit more too. I got tired of uh winching stuff onto the back of trucks and everything so i'd like to go and put a little additions onto them, and this one was no different. Underneath the box, i just added a winch and that's all hooked into the electrical system of the truck and then there's a bunch of metal framed out underneath to help support the winch from under the truck and give it some good support. So it won't rip out, and then you just put the old antique toolbox on it, wouldn't even know it's there.

Am i gon na miss it. I sure am this: there's certain things in your life that you go through, that you put yourself into not just purchasing and buying something say: hey look. I got a new truck and that kind of thing it's when you you put the physical labor into something you bring something back. This was literally in a junkyard uh at some point would have just gotten.

Question would have been gone all together and uh. Let's see if i can put this to be able to relate kind of a tough time in my life when i was doing this when i bought it and then kind of was moving forward. I actually had a friend that passed away and him and i were working on a couple of projects together. I that was the mustang for those who kind of remember.

I had a 67 mustang, he had a road runner, we work on them together and every time i went to go work on either the mustang and the family gave me the roadrunner. I still have the roadrunner now, the the depressing i don't know. If i want to even call it depressing the sadness of losing a friend and and when i had the capacity to go wrench with him, and you just enjoyed yourself the camaraderie kind of like the camaraderie that, when you guys hang out with me and we're wrenching On something it was that, but that went away so when i went to go work on it alone, it just wasn't the same anymore, so i ended up doing some more work on the road runner afterwards, but i just you know i had to kind of snap Out of the mood and the mustang, i ended up selling just because of that same reason i just couldn't carry that that torch anymore. So that's where this truck kind of like jumped in in the middle of that, and i was able to pick this up - you kind of search out for a new beginnings, and maybe that's what this truck was at at the time.

I really didn't have that much. I wasn't that much into vw's i i grew up with them. When i was younger, i worked in a vw repair shop from 15 to 20 19 around there, so i knew them pretty well as far as doing repairs on them. I just kind of got out of them and you know, plus that was my some of my transportation at the time at the younger age.

So i got back into them and figured i'd just kind of relive some of that and that's where this came along and i started to get back into working on the vw stuff and between this one and the the red and white bus, which is right. You probably saw a little clip of it around the corner. There uh really kind of re-sparked my interest, and this is one of those jobs that you work on one of those vehicles that you work on, that either you work on them and you you get like halfway through and you start losing steam and you just you Just kind of like want to get it done and you're kind of are pushing to get it through or you just you lose all steam and it gets put to the back burner. It ends up being a basket case and somebody else buys.

You know 10 years down the line. I know i bought enough of them and i sold a few myself that i've done you know. Hence the mustang was that's how that left. So this one was different, though, because i don't know it felt like you: you're, repairing the vehicle and you're repairing yourself at the same time, so i kind of went and did that as i was bringing this back up, this truck was bad it.

It was it. You know now you like, oh you had to go fix that truck now, but back then it it didn't, have the value of what it does now, and you know the patina wasn't a thing back then, 17 years ago it wasn't, you know nobody was doing. Patina vehicles back then you'd get you go to a show. People will be like what is wrong with you.

You know insurance company wouldn't even insure them they'd be like. Is it all done or restored uh yeah sure it is. You know all that has changed now. It's a totally different thing, but anyway the when i was working on this truck every time i worked on it the next morning.

I couldn't wait to get back out there and just kind of go back on it, some more or the next. You know next opportunity. I had to go work on it, maybe a week later or whatever it was just to go back, jump on it and uh start welding up, and there was nothing left in the back of that truck. The truck was just you know, pretty much naked.

It had the skin going around it, but all the rails on the bottom were shot all the rails on the top were shot, the gates were rotted off of it. There was no floor in the bottom, there's no floor in the top that the cab floor was gone on it again, and the only thing that was hooked up was the the driver's door. Every other door was pretty much just rotted off. Even the gas door was rotted off of it and they were just kind of like stuck on there.

You know so bringing this one back every day it just got more and more to the point where it got complete and keep myself going too. I didn't have uh a bunch of the writing was all covered up, so i'd work on the truck for a while if you lost a little bit of steam and you kind of wanted to revive the uh rekindle the flame i'd go over and okay. Okay, let's go do this door, let's go clean it off with goof off and scotch brite go see what's underneath there and uncover what it says and that's what i would do as the process went along so about once a week. I would do a different section because i wouldn't know what any of the writing had said down any of the slides or anything, and it was really cool to have the reveal of that and the truck like it's like a christine coming back to life.

You know you're doing a wrenching on it, so that's where it is today. It's been served me really well, i put 10 000 miles on the truck, or so at at least it's hard to say it. Doesn't i don't think the odometer works right, never paid attention to it. So uh, that's where it is.

It's uh kind of got me through a tough time of mental emotions by just going out to the garage and doing some wrenching and enjoying it it's a bit of a rant, but anyway, just give you a little of a hindsight of kind of what the vehicle Meant to me so it's i don't i don't like doing favorites in that kind of thing. I really don't like to list them as far as that, because it changes over time. You say: oh, this is my favorite color or my favorite food or something but then a year later you know maybe that changes your food is now. This is your favorite one, so i kind of come and go with that, but i definitely say it's in the top five of the the things i've brought back to life and probably one of the more important ones, but it's time time for it to move on.

All right, brian's, coming over shortly, we're gon na go, get her ready to load it up on the trailer we're gon na go trailer, it uh down to the drop-off point and uh we'll take you along for for that part of it too. This one's loose lucy i've had this one, probably about the same time frame as krusty, but it you know, got the pretty treatment on this one, but it was pretty much. The same scenario was, it was all bondo together and nothing had metal patch panels put on that were put on what rivets and that kind of thing. So all that got gutted out and welded new metal in and put together from yard, sale, repairs and attachments.

Like the door panels are from a yard, seattle, andy warhol, paintings from sears that turned into door panels. This seats, a uh park bench front seat that kind of thing in the back, everything's a little on the eclectic yard, sale, repairs and the same amount of money's into this truck like three grand on this one also - and it has also turned out quite well - it's Holding up fairly well, but this guy this one right here that says just campers: that's a lie: it's not a camper but uh. This is my newest acquisition. You have not seen it yet, but uh.

This is a be for more upcoming videos. It is german i'll. Give you some hints and it is from the 50s, but it is not volkswagen, so you can try taking some guesses but uh that'll be for another day my partner in crime showed up. Oh, i am a partner crying.

That's for sure. What's your thoughts, sir? Well, i'm gon na hate that i'm not able to come and see it every day anymore, but the story alone from from the first rusty rusty, krusty story at the beginning of everything to right now that that makes it worth it. I was just talking about that. A little while ago too, there's the history of it and yeah one of the ones that i didn't drop the ball on and kept going because every morning you got up, i wanted to go work on it more yeah.

Let's get it loaded up, we're gon na try getting it on there without putting the ramps out, because we're lazy and the ramps are tucked in the back of the truck and we're too old, broken down men that it's not that we're lazy! Sir, it's the krusty's! A truck okay, okay, oh yeah, no problem driver ramps are for sissies, got about an hour's drive to massachusetts. That might be an issue. Just i mean you, don't use enough whoops! That's a lot of metal studs! There's that big come in the back jack. I do believe we might be at the new resting place for crusty.

It looks like a nice accommodations. What's your opinion, sir? I love it here. Yeah i'd want to stay here. Look at that! Isn't that fitting uh just get set up.

I can't complain about that. I'm starving it oh inside yeah. This is very forgiving. Illuminating and wonderful.

I mean look how that part. This is sheldon. Sheldon is the curator for the lars anderson audio museum. We are absolutely thrilled that darren has loaned not only the museum, but the general public that will be coming to these exhibits, for this exhibit excuse me over the course of the next few months.

Something is only original once, and that is great patina and it doesn't come easy preservation, so we are thrilled to be using this as an example of what one would do to preserve the vehicle, and this is just an outstanding example of originality. Thank you. Thank you and what's it can be called uh. This is hidden treasures from new england collections, seldom see nice, nice and uh.

This is um. It's gon na be two sections correct sure, where the other one is going to be vehicles and necessity, yep born of a necessity gallery, and that is about how uh trucks uh as a segment of the car world, went from a very basic utilitarian thing where a Car was converted into a pickup truck just of necessity and then leading to the pickup truck being the largest selling vehicle in america, the ford f-150 that is but uh that one right there yeah exactly and it's part of the american consciousness. Uh pickup trucks have their utilitarian purpose, but they have an aesthetic appeal for men: women, children, certainly commercial vehicles, but it's it's part of america. Frankly, the pickup truck - and this is yet another example again i thank you very much.

I really appreciate it's an honor to have my uh rusty, krusty truck uh going big time. It's not only our honor, but it's our privilege darren, because as important as the vehicle is the person behind it is the real story. So we thank you thanks again. I appreciate it.

Okay, all right, sir. We have an empty trailer. I think a driver's coming i'll just ride here. Well guys that is it if you haven't figured it out.

Yes, definitely, my truck is just on loan. I did not give my truck away. What are you crazy? Did you think i was gon na give my truck away and sell it. So i get it back in about a year but uh it does get to go on display.

If any of you guys want to go check it out, you can go to the lars anderson, auto museum in brookline, mass and it'll be on display there for the uh 2021-2022 season. I guess in april i get it back so till then i'll see you guys soon on another project. Toodaloo.