![]() ![]() 20 from Jason Lee Wilson & James County: Pre-order proceeds to benefit Australian firefighting, recovery effortsĪround the time of the "Tennessee" record release last year, he and the James County band members set about staging a couple shoots for a potential music video for the "Come Down" single. Wilson's been busy this past year, no doubt, with this and other projects, since we last checked in with the past Trucker Talent Search champ. ![]() Frank has been given a new lease on life and, as one critic described, "with pure class" he is "purposeful, aggressive and refined." Stylish appointments chosen include frenched '53 Chevrolet taillights, windshield visor and dual spotlights. His 16-foot grain bed would make way for leaner 8-foot unit complete with winch and gooseneck hitch. Frank's cab was extended to a length that complements the factory styling and accommodates 5 passengers. After his health was restored by the insertion of a military grade 6.2-Liter GM V8 diesel, it was decided that Frank would begin a series of surgical procedures to transform his body into a larger and more capable form." A failed rod bearing in the original 235-cubic-inch six-cylinder necessitated a transplant. ![]() Yet, Frank still struggled with a weak heart. Frank, Wilson went on, "was given new legs with a higher-geared late model Dana 70HD and IFS with disc brakes all around. "Frank was put out to pasture and neglected in a barn lot from the 1980s until 2003 when he coughed back to life and made an escape to the hills." Meet "Big Frank."įrank was a 1956 Chevrolet 4400 series cab/chassis at birth - spent his early years "hauling grain in Middle Tennessee," as Wilson posted on the Dixie Lee Speed Facebook page, where he shares details of various projects from time to time. Speaking of (so to speak) resurrections, Wilson also shared some of the details of a restoration project he's helped finish for a Tennessee-based owner. Not a bad rate for a phantom come to life, wouldn't you say? Wilson went one better, bringing the bulb inside away from the evaporating rays of the sun and offering it up as the genuine article on eBay. Asking price? $100. "Somebody said you ought to bottle that up and sell it on Amazon," he said, but that wouldn't have been the first time such had happened – search "blinker fluid" there and you'll find no shortage of gag oil quart bottles on sale labeled as such. "I found the elusive blinker fluid!" he wrote when he posted the picture to Facebook. "I was doing a wiring harness swap," he said, and "I don’t know if I was swapping bulbs or looking for a good bulb or what." But when he removed the bulb below from its plug, he was mystified by just how that much liquid could have gotten inside of it - until he realized what he had. That extended this past week to a bulb he came across in the course of work on a customer's pickup with his Dixie Lee Speed custom vehicle business. Singer-songwriter and now-former driver Jason Lee Wilson of East Tennessee I've always known as a man with a refined sense for the sometimes hidden meaning, or opportunity for humor, in all things.
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