Cannonball Runner

A truck parked in less-than-ideal conditions for more than four decades probably shouldn’t be expected to start and run in less than a day.

“I had a couple of buddies over,” said J.B. Stoltzfus, owner of the 1958 GMC D860 “Cannonball” shown here, “and we went through some things and then (in) a couple of hours, it was running.”

Then there’s the 32-ft. 1952 Great Dane trailer that was sitting on a dealer’s back lot for not quite as long.

“I think he said 30 years,” Stoltzfus recalled. “We aired it up and we drove it home.”

It wasn’t as simple as it sounds for either the truck or its trailer, although the Great Dane needed not much