Motor Mouth: 4x4 Jeep truck sees mud no more - Anderson Independent Mail
You can be forgiven if you don’t remember Jeep building a pickup. It’s baffling considering both Jeep vehicles and pickup trucks have enjoyed growing popularity in recent years. Still, Donnie Mathis is keeping the dream alive with his Jeep pickup. It’s a truck that his father, also named Donnie, bought when the younger Mathis was just 2. At the time, they lived in Brevard, North Carolina. Mathis grew up driving the truck, often taking it mudding and off-roading. By the time he turned 18, his father had given him the Jeep and it followed him to Florida. “I call it my truck of many colors,” Mathis said. Indeed, the truck has been repainted several times through the years. At one point, rust had eaten its way through the truck so much that the cab had rusted off. “I more or less drove it ‘till the wheels fell off it, but the wheels didn’t fall off, the cab did,” Mathis said. For several years, the Jeep sat while Mathis restored another project — a 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. Mathis, however, realized he couldn’t let the truck rot. , Townville School Yard, S. C. 24 at Townville School Road. Source: www.independentmail.com
