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Last weekend, I met the original owner of a 1958
Fargo pick-up truck, and his son.
The truck has its original 313 V-8 and a step-side
box, and has been restored by replacing the metal in the running boards, the
wood in the bed and repainting the truck. Front seat and dash
have been redone, but the door panels and steering wheel have not (yet).
The original rubber floor mat is in great shape.
But, the owner has not been able to rebuild the
brakes satisfactorily, so the truck has not moved out of its old garage for
quite a while. It was a bit of a shock to see so much bird droppings on that new
paint!
The owner tells me that the rear-end is geared for
power, not fuel conservation, so he always got pretty low gas mileage, albeit
pulling some pretty big loads. He also tells me that the 313 V-8 car engines
were manufactured in Windsor, Ontario, but the 313 V-8 truck engines were
manufactured in Mexico, and so he has not found any engine parts
sources.
Does anyone know of any sources for brake, engine
or rear-end parts for this truck?
I took a photo of the data plate in the door jamb
area -- can anyone help decipher it? And would I be correct to assume that there
would have been another data plate under the hood (on the rad support?) that
would have provided some more info on this truck?
This is all to help the original owner ... the
truck is not for sale, and probably won't be, for a few more decades, since the
son is an engine engineer on one of Cadillac's new engine projects, so I'm gonna
guess he'll be next in line, before I ever get a chance to pick up this
pick-up.
Thanks for your expert help.
Dick Woodside
1958 NY T&C Wagon (engine is currently being
rebuilt)
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