1957? Series I 107" Pickup Truck
Now I happen to think that 107 Pick-up’s
are really beautiful. They are so square, their bed looks like an
antique American pick up--long square, big. The tops are wild like
a caterpillar tractor and they are so rare in the States. When I was young
in the sixties and I had my first Rover, I saw an add for one in a magazine.
It showed the truck, (the only rover that qualifies as a truck in my opinion
in the States, a place of pick ups) in Oregon at a lumber mill being a
truck. After my 88” station wagon in New York City I was amazed.
So when the Cotati three contained a 107
I was delighted. But… it was missing the tranny, ball joints, the
tie rods, the roof and windows. Now a tranny we could pull from any
car, the tie rods and ball joints too, but a 107 top and upper windows
are just not that common. The Pick-up truck roof would be nearly
impossible to find -- we would have to import it.
So the olive green 107 sits, full of oak
leaves, a piece of masonite as its roof, waiting. Now just as Roo wants
to get one of the 80's running, I want work on the 107. But such
is life, many things to do and little time and how important is a 107 to
my life right now compared to … but one day at the Paly All Brit
a man drove up in a 107 with hay in the back and a cowboy hat on--in Palo
Alto--a suburb next to a Nordstroms. It looked so good I thought,
some day...