That spring I also bought my first set of wheels, a 1946 Ford pickup truck that I bought from my uncle, Leonce A. Amirault, who owned the B/A service station at the time. (B/A became Gulf on Jan.1, 1969, and later Ultramar) I paid $45.00 for this truck, junk price, and I got mostly what I had paid for as it had given up the ghost a long time before. However, with a bit of mechanical ability, I had the machine running in no time at all. The little truck still had a few flaws. I bought a new battery, picked up a few old tires from back of the service station, and gave the machine a fresh coat of green B/A paint. Not that I necessarily liked green, but the price was right for free paint. I did the painting with a brush.

 

One of the rear wheel cylinders would not hold brake fluid, so I disconnected the pipe and flattened the end; brakes on three wheels had to do. When the wheels with brakes stopped, the other one had to stop also. On top of that, the truck left a smoke screen that would have done justice to any of the James Bond spy movies being shown 40 years ago.