My Grandfather bought his very first brand new truck in 1954. It was a 1954 Ford F-350. He wanted to use it around the farm, so he took the original truck box off and put a grain box and dual tires on the back to make it more useful around the farm. It hauled everything from pigs to grain. It was kept in a shed all its life and proved useful on the farm up until the early 90’s when he passed away. My Mother and Father purchased the truck on the auction and put it in their shed where it sat mostly unused until 2004. I decided to start restoring the truck during my Senior year of high school. The truck started right up after putting a new battery on it, but it was in need of some attention. So the motor was pulled and the top end was overhauled with new valves and pistons and the heads were planed down. The body had some dings in it from being a farm truck, but most were able to be fixed up. We found a donor passenger door and that is the only piece of the truck that is not from the original truck. The project took longer than expected, as they always do, and got put on hold as I went to college and started a career. The truck sat in primer for 10 years and was a project that I always wanted to get done, but never found the time. Until this past summer. I took a week of vacation and decided to try and get some paint on the truck just to see how it looked, and to see if I could paint it myself, or I was going to have to take it somewhere to have it done. After a couple attempts at mixing paint and either ending up too runny or too thick, my Dad offered to help. While I did the prep work on the other pieces of the truck, he mixed and sprayed the paint. The original truck was all black. We took some inspiration from an old John Deere dealership truck I had seen and decided to do a little custom work ourselves. My grandfather got me interested in the old John Deere tractor and helped establish a threshing bee in our area, so I think he would be ok with the new color scheme. After my initial week of vacation, I spent most of the nights this summer doing other finishing touches to try and get the truck ready for our annual threshing bee. We ended up getting it done the night before the show started and got plenty of looks and questions while there. It took a lot longer to complete than we thought, but we will be able to enjoy it for many years to come.