Classic Trucks

WATERBURY, CT – It cost only $500 and, as Mike Semanoff of Waterbury succinctly declared, “It was worth a shot.”  Semanoff was talking last month about the 1972 International Harvester Scout II that he’s owned for approximately eight years and driven cross-country three times, visiting 42 states. He regards his …

FALLS VILLAGE, CT – A vintage Railway Express Agency delivery truck that has been fostered for seven years by the owners of Jacobs Garage has found its forever home. The Railway Museum of New England this week paid $12,000 for the 1946 Dodge model and plans to use it for …

BANTAM, CT – It’s 102 years old but doesn’t show its age thanks to a facelift nearly 20 years ago, and pampering ever since. The Bantam Fire Company gives it the respect it deserves because of the role it serves. “It’s a point of pride,” said Chief Ryan Litwin of …

WATERBURY, CT – Paul Mendyka of Waterbury has no plans to cosmetically alter the 1949 Chevrolet 3100 pickup that he bought in 2019. “I like it the way it is. It’s kinda crusty like me,” he said, “and I just absolutely love the truck the way it sits. I’ve had …

PLEASANT VALLEY, CT – Buying a classic vehicle isn’t always a simple process. For example, the Long Island seller of a 1974 Land Rover Series III required Mark Lanctot of Pleasant Valley to first put in writing why he wanted it before accepting $6,000 and handing over the keys. “I …

WATERBURY, CT – Jermaine B. Atkinson of Waterbury was 17 years old and attending Kaynor Technical High School when his father, Clarence B. Atkinson, purchased a new 1996 Ford F-350 XLT in December 1995. The pickup was soon nicknamed “Black Beauty” for its exterior looks. “He’s always been a Ford …

 LITCHFIELD, CT – Jeff Crampton of Litchfield wasn’t like so many others who get the urge to acquire an old vehicle and then quickly get in over their heads. He neither gave up nor forked over large sums of money for someone else to do the restoration job. Crampton had …

Seated on the driver’s side running board of her store’s time-weathered peddler truck, Yvonne Gilyard Reynolds was enthusiastically recalling the history of the 1928 Ford Model AA. “The store has owned this truck for 95 years,” she said. “The business itself started five years earlier, so this was bought brand …

CHESHIRE, CT – Earl Genest estimates that his 1989 Ford Bronco II XLT compact sport utility vehicle has been driven 465,000 miles. He’s personally watched it turn over the 100,000 mile mark twice in the 25 years that he’s owned it. “I kept it up,” he said Sunday of his …

LITCHFIELD, CT – He’s owned it for seven years and is now looking to sell it. It’s a pickup variant of one of the most maligned models in automotive history thanks to the 1965 book “Unsafe At Any Speed” by Winsted, CT native Ralph Nader.  The vehicle being sold is …