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May 2017

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Custom Rigs 48 | Overdrive | May 2017 A fter three decades of hiding in barns, a Chevrolet Loadmaster has come out in the open in a big way. The antique, owned by grain farmer Buddy Salyer of Marengo, Ohio, sports a new coat of luscious green paint. It was one of several trucks competing in the Antique category of the PKY Truck Beauty Championship at the Mid-America Truck- ing Show in Louisville, Kentucky. "This truck spent 15 years in Kansas inside a barn," Salyer says. "Then a friend bought it, and it sat 15 years in his barn." Salyer, who bought the Loadmaster in 2012, says it has special mean- ing to him. "My dad bought one in 1949, and he hauled coal in it," he recalled, though he has no memory of the truck. "He had a picture of it, and it was this color green." Salyer's friend Kevin Young, who has a drag racer, handled the re- build. While Salyer has no plans to put the truck to work on his farm, Young has other ideas. "It'll probably get a little Sunday work go- ing to the race track," he says. Antique Chevy Loadmaster comes back to life The truck has split rim (two-piece) wheels and bias tires with tubes. The bumper was taken off a Mack to replace the original. The round devices on the bumpers are breathers that feed air to the carburetor. Buddy Salyer rebuilt the Chevy "just for fun." Kevin Young and Buddy Salyer replaced the engine with a 350-cubic-inch 300-hp Chevrolet gas engine. BY MAX HEINE Photos by Max Heine

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