- TRUCKIN.COM [5 7 ] OCTOBER 2019 -
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here are not very many people who share Shawn
Shipers’ experience. He has been fortunate to still
own the first car he purchased in the fall of 1987 on
his 16th birthday: an all-original shortbed with a six-
cylinder, three-on-the-tree ’67 C10 pickup he named Ol’ Blue. This
was Shawn’s main form of transportation through high school.
One weekday morning during his senior year, Shawn was
T-boned at an intersection on his way to school. He came out of the
wreck OK, but his beloved C10 did not. It suffered a bent axle and
a caved-in bedside. After that moment, the truck sat in his parents’
garage until he had the funds to repair it. One positive thing that
came of this situation was the Pro-Street era was emerging in
the local car scene, giving Shawn the drive to push on with the
necessary repairs and narrow the rear end and tub it to give his
truck a unique Pro-Street look.