As I've documented the journey on my facebook as well, it caught the attention of the lady at the local paper, she came to the farm one day, and talked to dad and I about the history of the old truck and actually put the story of the truck on a regional publication here at home called Delta Crossroads. Heres a link to the story if you'd like to read it, it talks about the family connection and some neat history my Dad shed on the subject. Just click on it and it should come up in form you can read the whole magazine. Go to page 76 or 77, that were the story starts. Pretty cool that they did that, she did a good job I thought with the story and using my facebook pictures.
Here's the link.
http://www.deltacrossroads.com/#!untitled/masterpage_1