John Julius’s 1938 Chevrolet 1-1/2-ton truck has led many lives in its nearly 80 years of driving around Wisconsin and beyond. And even though it’s been in his family since day one, Julius is still seeking some answers about its past.
“I don’t know how the box and the chassis got together,” says Julius, a resident of Greenville, Wis. “I believe that my great-uncle bought it brand new, and he had a cheese business in Birnamwood and Aniwa and he bought it for the business.”
But one day many decades later, when the old farm truck was out in the rain, the boards of the stake bed revealed the first page of a new mystery…