If you’re drawn to the occasional truck features in this magazine, you might recall seeing Kent Zimmerman’s 1947 Diamond T 509 flatbed in the November 2017 issue, or his ’37 Chevrolet ½-ton pickup back in March. Kent is the sort of old-truck owner that fellow old-truck owners can appreciate: his haulers don’t play second fiddle to an elegant Full Classic or an exotic sports car. It’s just old trucks for the sake of old trucks. Kent buys them wherever he can find them, hauls them home on his open trailer, and proceeds to tackle the restoration work himself, with assists from friends and pros for paint and body or upholstery work. When he’s finished, he uses his trucks—to haul brush, tote stuff to the transfer station, or bring home purchases from the lumber yard. Of course, he also finds time to show them off.
This ’50 Chevrolet cab over engine that Kent restored, as a four-year project, casts a long
