Just Cool Cars: A patriotic '50 Chevy tribute to John Deere

BURBANK, Calif. -- Ed Tucker's 1950 five-window pickup started life as a humble farm truck. But these days, it's good looking enough to lead to lead the parade.

That's because Tucker, a retired truck driver from Burbank, Calif., turned it into a tribute to one of the most famous names in farming, John Deere. The truck is painted in that familiar green and yellow of Deere farm equipment and also has other touches like smokestacks.

It's one of the more interesting Just Cool Cars candidates we've seen in a while, this one at a weekly car show in the parking lot of the Bob's Big Boy restaurant here.

The renovation of the pickup wasn't just about the outside. Under the hood, the half-ton pickup has a 235-cubic-inch six-cylinder engine taken out of a 1960 Chevy Cheyenne. It's completely redone -- including a 7-Up can that serves as the coil.

After the renovation, the humble pickup is now perfect for parades like the ones going on this Memorial Day. Tucker, together with wife Rosie LoBrutto, decks it out with American flags flying above and big milk cans in the trunk.

"A farm truck has to have a milk can," LaBrutto explained.