Jon Los

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  • Playing with Big trucks

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    Like I said at the end of the last post, my old Kenworth wasn’t a purebred. As I made some enquiries, I found that it had quite an interesting history that was closely related to the building of a major highway in BC, the Hope-Princeton Hwy. As I was sandblasting the chassis and the cab,…

  • Playing with Real Trucks Pt . 7

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    And there it was, almost ready to go to work. Except for a few things that needed to be done, and at the top of the list were new rear ends so it could go faster that 47 MPH. I did take it to a lot of shows, and even won a couple of trophies,…

  • Playing with Real Trucks Pt. 6

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    This was it, the big day had finally arrived, my old Kenworth was going to turn black. I’d kind of grown accustomed to the primer grey but it wasn’t going to be grey for much longer. A little bit more sanding, and checking all of the masking, and it was time. Bill the body man…

  • 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…

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