Earl Gilmore, the godfather of all dekotora

If you’re spent any time at all on the Intertubes, I’m sure you’ve seen photos of the dekotora – those brightly lit and garishly decorated trucks in Japan. As David Greenlees showed us recently on The Old Motor, they weren’t the first to festoon their trucks with lights – Earl B. Gilmore, of Gilmore Oil, […]

Preserving a warrior’s legacy

Bruce Hays’s original plan was to restore a complete, but somewhat worn, 1959 Chevrolet Apache pickup that he’d bought to give to his wife as an anniversary present. Hays was a Desert Storm veteran and a captain in the Wyoming National Guard. He was recalled to duty in Afghanistan, and killed there in 2008. Hays […]