"This Loadside started its life on Barksdale Air
Force Base in Louisiana. I have been told that the Air Force used them as
"follow me" vehicles. It was purchased from the Air Force by a used car dealer
in Bossier City, LA. It was then sold to a person in
East Texas. He did nothing to the truck and gave it to a school in East Texas,
and the school was going to "fix up" the truck as a school project. The school
did nothing. It was then given to Woody Thomas to haul away. Still nothing done.
Woody in turn made a deal with Tom Fricker, and he was to fix it up.
When I purchased the truck, I found a small problem with
the title. Because this truck had never been titled in any state, the
only paperwork was a government bill of sale to the used car dealer in Bossier
City, who was no longer in
business! I contacted the person in East Texas
who had purchased the truck from the used car dealer
and we paid a visit to the county tax office with the
paperwork that was with the truck. That did the trick.
I then started to "fix up" the truck. With a lot of help from my friends and
Mike Dobie, it was finished in time for
Dallas '95 CORSA convention.
The truck was equipped with an automatic transmission and gas heater. To the
best of my knowledge, this was all of the extra equipment that the Air Force
ordered. I show the truck in forward control - modified, as I have added a
radio, painted it white with a silver band and blue pin stripe. I now have
standard 14" wheels with three-prong hubcaps. It has the bench seat that came in
the truck. The bumpers have been chromed and the undercarriage painted.
I have entered the Loadside at the CORSA conventions in Dallas, Albuquerque,
St. Louis, Daytona Beach, and Flagstaff."
