Pluck, that was 1972. I bought the truck for a college buddy who was being discharged from the Navy in San Diego. He sent me $700 and said, "Buy me a car and come get me." That's what I bought. I reassembled it, rebuilt the brakes, made a camper for it, and away my wife, 2-yr-old daughter, and I went to pick him up. The feeways south of SLO were too intimidating, so we met him there.
I ended up buying the truck from him and refurbishing it and driving all around Oregon for several years, till I got in a tax bind and had to sell it in 1986.