Jon Los

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  • Playing with Real Trucks Pt. 5

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    This was it, the big weekend when my 7 year long restoration project was about to be painted. I got to the body shop around noon, and there was still a lot of prep work to be done. First things first though, could I get it started after it had been sitting for almost a…

  • Playing with Real Trucks Pt. 4

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    Good, quality body work takes time and isn’t cheap. If it hadn’t been for Bill teaching me how by letting me sand a lot of his projects to help offset my cost, it would have easily run into many thousands of dollars. It was painfully slow, but a year after we started, it was ready…

  • Playing with Real Trucks Pt. 3

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    I was 4 years into the project. So much for a few months eh? But it was starting to look like a truck again. The cab alone took me 2 years to restore. I had to build a lot of new parts like the running boards from scratch. My friend Dennis at Truck Specialists sold…

  • Playing with Real Trucks, Pt. 2

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    Dads shop was on the Fraser River in New Westminster BC, and next door was Benson Shipyards. Old man Bert Benson took a shine to me and said I could use a space near his marine ways to do any sand blasting I needed doing after hours. He even supplied the sand. So, as I…

  • Playing with Real Trucks

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    I was 20 and it was after I’d worked for my dad’s marine diesel repair business, in the Arctic Ocean rebuilding the generator engine on an ocean dredge, and I found myself with a lot of money for the first time in my life. I was driving a 3 ton truck, delivering soap, when one…

  • Playing With Trucks

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    What can I say, ever since I was a boy, big trucks fascinated me. Other kids were into bikes, cars and stuff but there was something about the big rigs that captured my imagination. When I was in my early teens I discovered truck models. The fact that I could build my dream rigs in…

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