here are so many reasons for owning a classic truck, with the most satisfying being the ability to top off the tank and hit the open road. Settling back into the seat with your favorite hits filling the airwaves while cruising to a destination as the sun cracks the horizon is about as perfect as it can get. After what seemed to be an eternity, due to the pandemic, it was awesome to hear that the Canadian borders were finally opened for travelers to visit once again. Nothing says welcome back better than a cool event that fuses nostalgia and traditionally styled classic trucks, hot rods, and customs for a truly memorable weekend. Now in its seventh year, Jalopy Jam Up, held in Rockton, Ontario, Canada, was revved up to greet truck and car owners after a two-year hiatus with a full schedule of festivities.

n most cases hardly anyone ever gets to see the foundation of a great build—and we mean the chassis, how it was assembled, what components are used, how some engineering feat was accomplished, and generally how a builder (at home or in a shop) was able to pull it all together. Once the body and bed get dropped on top of it, no one will get to see all the workmanship and creativity that went into it.

That’s why we’re happy to showcase this particular chassis because, besides checking all those boxes, it’s a spectacular piece of rolling art in its own right. Well-known slammed truck owner Tony Leal is having Old Anvil Speed Shop (Orange, California) go through his ’68 International Harvester Travelette. The body and bed is about to be bolted down, so we thought it would be a good time to get some photos of what lies beneath.

his month we revisit our friends at L & S Customs in Prospect Hill, North Carolina. If you’ll recall, we recently featured (Dec. ’22) the ’68 Chevy longbed they finished up last summer—this time around, we’re taking an insider’s look at Tony and Joy Capps’ ’59 Chevy Apache that’s getting the L & S touches thanks to our inside man, L & S’ own Troy Comer.

“Tony Capps and his parents are lifetime members of the Antique Auto Club of America,” Comer tells us, “with his parents having owned over 20 classic cars and trucks from the ’40s to the late ’60s, preferring Chevys. They both had cars from their birth years, so Tony’s wife, Joy, decided she wanted something from her birth year (1958) as well.