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Semi-Truck Playhouse
Will Stoner drives a 1986 GMC General truck and so do his toddler sons. The kids’ 1979 General cab is parked next to the swing set by their sandbox.
    “They get in it and pretend to drive, then they get out and pretend to check the trailer before they get back in,” Stoner says of the unusual playhouse he set up for them.
    Before he picked up the cab in a junkyard this summer, his sons loved to climb up into the General he drives for work.
    “Every time it was outside the kids liked to play in it, so I thought I’d get them one of their own,” Stoner says.
    He drives truck for a living and seems to be influencing his sons. Not quite 4, Trent knows all the truck emblems and Jack, 1 1/2, calls every truck a Mack.
    Stoner tore out old carpet and interior panels in the old truck cab so bugs and varmints won’t have places to nest, but left most everything else intact. The truck has a seat, dash, steering wheel and a CB but some crucial parts are missing – such as a key. The young father plans to get a key and make other improvements such as putting the truck cab on a stand, and adding tires, a bumper and shifter to make it more realistic.
    He also may do some swapping.
    “I may use some parts on my own truck,” he laughs.
    Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Will Stoner, 355 Rexmont Rd., Lebanon, Penn. 17042 (ph 717 273-2302).


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2011 - Volume #35, Issue #6