My Truck Story : Carter Auto Restyling

From a "decrepit shell" to a road-worthy, street-legal driving machine, the brains and hands behind Carter Auto Restyling restored his father's 90-year-old 1936 Chevy Truck and shared it on his YouTube channel.

Kyle, who calls himself a "washed-up autobody technician and hoarder of mediocre classic automobiles" on YouTube, said work on the restoration took longer than his YouTube channel. In fact, it started before there was YouTube or even the internet going back to 1981 when his father bought the truck for $200.

At the time, the original chassis, engine and transmission were gone and the truck had been dismantled.

Kyle's video shows what the truck looked like then and the restoration which included attempts to mount it on a 1958 Chevy truck frame and an International Scout chassis until they found an original '36 Chevy truck chassis.

The painstaking process of the mechanical and body restoration and Kyle's attempt "to keep the repair as authentic as possible" is shown in the video. He drills down to fine details including his discovery of a 1949 axle buried in the snow and finding five-bolt hubs in a junkyard near his home in Saskatchewan that he used for the rear axles.

By the end of the nearly 1:40-hour-long video, Kyle says his plans for the truck are "to simply drive the wheels off it. I'm very happy with how it turned out, and I'm very happy with the way the truck drives and performs."

He said the only thing he would change is upholstering the seat. But that's a project for another time.

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