There’s something special about an old truck. It carries the dust of a thousand roads, the memories of past owners, and a design philosophy that speaks to a different era—one where machines had souls.

Paul Hepner's true passion in life was restoring old trucks, according to his daughter. Sign up to get the most recent local obituaries delivered to your inbox.

Everybody wants a cheap pickup truck, but here's the thing, they're extremely hard to find — even the cheapest pickup trucks on sale today all cost north of $30,000. The problem is that we as ...