>YELLOW RUST BUCKET A GIFT
The Car: 1949 Chevrolet 3100. The Owner: Larry Lasswell, Burlington. The Story: On the eve of his 60th birthday, Larry Lasswell’s wife asked him what he wanted for a gift.
Larry told her he’d always loved old pickup trucks. The unflappable Mrs. Lasswell lobbed that one right back to him.
“She said she didn’t know anything about old pickup trucks but that if I wanted one, I could get one,” Larry says.
So the search was on. Larry looked high and low and finally found an unlikely candidate in Florida — and immediately fell in love with it.
“It was a 1949 Chevrolet 3100,” he recalls. “It was banana yellow and I was told it was a good runner with no rust. It turned out to be a rust bucket that didn’t run at all, but I had found my truck.”
Larry had the banana yellow rust bucket professionally restored in Milton, a project that took more than a year but was well worth it: it’s now a glossy black traffic-stopping beauty, and the apple of Larry’s eye. “I never imagined I’d own one of these,” he says. “On sunny days, I take it into town for a newspaper and a cup of coffee and it always draws an admiring crowd.” Show us your candy! Do you have a beautifully restored or modified car? Send us your goodquality pics, along with a few sentences about why it’s special to you. Please include your name, city of residence, make and year of the car, and how long you’ve had it. If we choose it, we’ll run it in Toronto Star Wheels and online at Wheels.ca. Send your email to wheels@thestar.ca and be sure to use “Eye Candy” in the subject line.