A FAMILY HEIRLOOM IS REBORN…

AS A CUMMINS-POWERED ’51 CHEVROLET

- MIKE MCGLOTHLIN

You see them all the time, especially during planting and harvest season. The service trucks that show up in the field to keep equipment running are the backbone of any farming operation. When he didn’t like the prices he was seeing while shopping for the family farm’s new service truck, Chris Ohl decided to take matters into his own hands. He would build it himself—and it would be one of a kind. After all, his great grandpa’s ’51 Chevrolet 3800, a 30,000-mile 1-ton grain truck that’d been parked for a number of years, was practically begging to be transformed into a service rig.

WELL-PRESERVED PATINA