The LongbedQueen

WORDS AND PHOTOS BY ANGEL DOOLY

EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU COME ACROSS A FAMILY HEIRLOOM, PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. The Ford truck you see before you was passed down to Kimberly Miller 10 years ago by her grandfather, Stanley. As you can see, Kimberly embraced the opportunity to make this ’80 F-100 her own. She did not disappoint!

At the time, she had another truck she had planned to customize. Instead, her grandfather convinced her to sell that truck and take his. After going to the DMV to square away the paperwork, her grandfather decided to take one last drive in the truck. On the way home, he got into a wreck where another car ran into him. Everyone was OK, but the truck really needed some work then.

Over the years and through a lot of trial and error with other shops, work was either done incorrectly or kept getting pushed back for various reasons.