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• January 18, 2013
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30-year restoration nets show-winning ‘32 Ford pickup Del Basaraba was 18 years old in 1971 and working six days a week loading box cars at a Williams Lake sawmill when he was smitten. He was heading to a ALYN EDWARDS fast food restaurant for CLASSIC his lunch break when RIDES he spotted a pickup truck and a car trailer carrying three old vehicles: a 1931 Ford Victoria, a 1933 Ford five-window coupe and a 1932 Ford pickup truck. One look at that old pickup and he knew he had to have it. Del met Joe Astleford from Bella Coola who had parked his rig in the gas station for exposure because he wanted to sell the vintage vehicles. Joe had purchased Del Basaraba the pickup from the was 18 years old Riske Creek Cattle in 1971 when Company ranch bought this 1932 several hours west of Ford pickup Williams Lake. It had truck. lived a hard life with a battered cab and
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Del Basaraba paid $1,600 for this well-used 1932 Ford pickup truck in 1971. It had been owned by the Riske Creek Cattle Company.
fenders and a rusty box. But Del didn’t balk at the $1,600 asking price and went straight to his bank. He was amazed to get a loan for the full amount without putting up any collateral and the pickup was his. Del had grown up an hour from the north central B.C. community of Williams Lake beside his father’s sawmills. He attended a country grade school built by his father for the children of his workers which was just a few steps from the family home. Later, the family moved half way closer to town as Del and his older brother started high school. One day his brother was driving Del to school in his 1952 Ford convertible when he lost control, left the road and hit a stump, totalling the car. Del was 14 when he bought a 1953 Ford sedan and completely restored it using the engine from his brother’s wrecked car. “None of the young teenagers had licenses in those days,” he recalls. “I used to park my car on the edge of town and walk where I wanted to go. When we took my car to Vancouver, older friends with licenses would drive.”
The year after buying the 1932 Ford pickup, Del married Claudine Weil. “She worked in the mill office and one of my friends bet me $20 that she wouldn’t go out with me,” Del says. The teenage couple pooled their money to order a new propane tank truck which launched their propane delivery business. As the years passed, the business prospered and grew. The couple celebrated the birth of two daughters who would ride in the back of the old pickup during parades through Williams Lake. But storing the old Ford truck under a tarp at the propane company’s yard would nearly cause the truck’s demise. Sparks from a burn barrel ignited the tarp and, before Del and his employees could put the fire out, the front of the pickup had been consumed. “In some ways, that was the best thing that could have happened,” he says. “It got me going on the restoration.” But there were several false starts with a series mechanics that did little more than take the truck apart and lose valuable parts which caused the project to stall for years. Continued pg. B5
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