IAR Recyclers Newspress May / June 2016

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Page 6 Recyclers News Press
Van Horn Truckload of History
Lloyd Van Horn
Monson Salvage, Inc.
Lone Rock, IA
North End Auto Wrecking
Dubuque, IA
Nugent Auto Sales & Salvage, Inc.
Maquoketa, IA
Osage Auto Salvage
Osage, IA
P.Q. Auto Parts
Sioux City, IA
Pat's Auto Salvage, LLC
Waterloo, IA
Piper's Auto Salvage
Bloomfield, IA
Poell's Enterprises, Inc.
DeWitt, IA
Preferred Auto Sales, Inc.
Lockridge, IA
Quandt Auto Salvage, Inc
Carroll, IA
Sam's Riverside
Auto & Truck Parts
Des Moines, IA
him just to see what an antique auto auction was like. Well, there hap-
pened to be two interesting old trucks on the sale and the next thing I knew
I bought them both!
This led to going to more sales and resulted in spending much of my spare
time looking for and restoring early makes of rare or unusual trucks. I stuck
with buying just pre-1930 trucks and mostly the rare makes, which were
built by companies that are long gone. At first I had in mind to try and lo-
cate one of each make ever built, until I found out there were 1,801 com-
panies over the years that had tried their luck at building trucks.
My wife Margaret also took an interest in the old trucks and soon she was
doing the seat upholstery work, as well as helping with keeping the Muse-
um open in the summer months. Our grandson Scott also became interest-
ed and was involved with much of the restoration work, so this turned out
to be a family project that we all enjoy.