00:00 Careful, what is that over there?
00:02 Look.
00:03 What?
00:04 Where?
00:05 L-I-V-E-D-A-N-G.
00:07 I had a hog.
00:09 A big old hog.
00:11 And this old man, Lloyd Hall, he had this pickup.
00:17 And we needed something to drive.
00:20 And he said, I'll trade it for that hog at $50.
00:24 Richard was 15 at the time.
00:27 That's good old bartering right there.
00:29 The truck's been in the family ever since.
00:32 When I was really young, my grandpa was taking me out to show me the truck.
00:36 And he said, do you like my truck?
00:39 And apparently I told him, that's my truck.
00:41 And he said, OK, that's your truck.
00:43 And he always said he was going to give it to me.
00:46 And then he did eventually.
00:49 Grandpa Richard even nicknamed the truck Cannonball back in the day
00:53 because of how strong and powerful it was.
00:56 But Cannonball hadn't been strong for a long time,
01:00 sitting dead in his yard for 45 years.
01:04 There's a square of brown right here.
01:06 This is where the truck sat for a long, long, long, long time.
01:11 Well, I've always wanted to restore that old truck
01:14 and not just put it off and put it off.
01:16 And then I'll be like, man, I wish I fixed that up for him.
01:19 I wanted to do it now because my grandpa won't be around forever.
01:24 And his grandpa loves telling old stories about his adventures with Cannonball, too.
01:30 Here's the last one right.
01:32 Yeah, and that was a long time ago.
01:34 We took off across there when he was little and didn't have a break one.
01:39 We got to book it down to there.
01:43 But now he'll be able to tell some new stories.
01:47 All right, today's the day we're picking up the 1954 International pickup.
01:53 Starts right up like nothing.
01:56 It's my dad in the International right now.
01:59 There's the brake lights that didn't exist.
02:04 And yes, that bumper is a steel bumper welded on, literally a steel pipe.
02:09 My grandpa did that some odd years ago.
02:13 He had no clue what I was going to do with it.
02:16 He didn't know that I was going to get it running
02:18 and drive it down the road and pull up to his house in this truck.
02:23 What is that over there? Look.
02:27 What? Where?
02:29 A lot of these things.
02:31 [laughter]
02:33 Daddy's crazy.
02:40 [music]
02:42 Water pump, brand new water pump.
02:57 Oh, they rewired it completely.
03:02 Oh, they did.
03:04 Yeah, they got rid of the cruddy wire, they said,
03:06 and put new fuses in it and rewired it themselves.
03:11 Didn't think I'd ever let you see that.
03:21 He can't believe it still, you know, it just doesn't feel real.
03:24 I mean, it doesn't to me either, because I've seen that truck, you know,
03:27 dead for a long time, and it's like it's been brought back to life.
03:32 Like my dad's, like an old family member has been like brought back, you know.
03:37 It's like an old friend.
03:39 How long do you think it's been since you drove it?
03:44 I don't know.
03:46 It's been way, it's been 20 or better.
03:50 Cannonball is one of the only things his grandpa has left from his mom,
03:55 and Blake told us he hopes people recognize the importance of family
04:00 every time we get with them.
04:03 You need to be together with your family, really.
04:06 That's what it's all about.
04:08 People, they wish their grandpa was still alive,
04:10 or they wish they could have done this for their grandpa.
04:12 And like I said before, we're not all going to be here forever.
04:15 Some are here shorter than others,
04:16 so I hope that people can take that into consideration and live in the moment.
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