Leaky Rad…

We’re always looking for curious things while out on road trips, some fresh meat for our minds and camera. Be it some old building, something train related, a subject with with a weird or quirky slant, a Boler or two (yeah!) there’s any number of things that pique our interest. We’re easily entertained though. Here’s something, seen from the highway as we passed through the city of Camrose Alberta, homeward bound, by the long way of course, after a most incredible weekend (link below to see that). There to the left, it’s an old pickup in front of some company offices.

The firm, FT Aggregates, deals in rocks, gravel, whatever, and the truck with the leaking rad display, it’s to get your attention. It did for us! Not that we’re in the market for any screened sand or landscaping stones.

The truck is a 1952 or 1953 model if we’ve done our homework right (we’re so/so at this) and comes from maker Fargo. If you think it looks like a Dodge, it’s ding, ding, ding for you. It is in every way except badging. Fargos were sold in Canada at Plymouth dealers from 1936-1972 and in other countries at various times, but not the US. They’re common enough, especially on the prairies, and nearly every trip across the farming areas of Alberta and Saskatchewan, we see one somewhere, usually languishing in retirement, but occasionally on the road. This one’s got a bad rad as you can see but a little stop leak from Canadian Tire ought fix that. Or maybe not.

Spotted while on the way home from this…
YEGPIN 2018 – 14 hours in heaven.

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Date of adventure: May, 2018.
Location: Camrose, Alberta.

A bit of a leak…