October 2010 
If it wasn't for my brother, I would not own this truck. 
My brother called me about a 1986 Volkswagen Cabriolet he knew of which was a basket case, 
but it was being offered free for picking it up in the Kansas City area.  In one of my previous lives, 
I had had some experience with VWs, so I thought what the heck, I'll pick this one up, 
fix it and have a fun little topless putter.  I trailered it home,  cleaned it up,  put it in my barn, 
and started looking for the parts it needed.

Part II - The Son Connection
August 2011
If it wasn't for my son, I would not own this truck. 
My son called one afternoon and said, "hey Dad, I saw on an internet blog some guy has a 
94 Silverado that he wants to either sell, or trade for VW parts. Are you interested in trading that VW in the barn for it?" 
I said maybe, lets take a look at the truck.  So we looked it over and thought, 
well it's pretty rough, but if the guy will make us a reasonable deal, then sure what the heck!, after all, it's not just a truck, 
its a truck that actually starts, runs, and drives! the VW is a basket case that I really haven't invested much in yet anyway. 
So, we haggle back and forth for a week or so, and finally settled on a deal for the truck. 
We brought the truck home and two days later a tow truck showed up and hauled the VW away. 

Part III - The Discovery
September 2011
So I start the clean up on the truck, standard procedure. 
I have bought and sold a wide variety of vehicles my entire life, so I am rather hardened to the initial clean up of a 
used project vehicle. I always know it's going to be an unpleasant experience to some extent, however, 
this one exceeded my wildest expectations.  Long story short, the interior pictures below are 
AFTER I had spent 6 hours cleaning it.  These were filthy people!
When I arrived at the glove box, the owners manual and papers contained, 
were in surprisingly good condition, considering the rest of the vehicle, and while looking through 
the papers, I came across several receipts for warranty work, battery replacement, etc... made out to the owner of the 
vehicle who at the time the receipts were written was listed as a company by the name of Bio-Electronics
which on the face of it, seems irrelevant...    unless you are me.

Part IV - The Bio-Electronics Connection 
December 1994
I have said all that, to say this.
When I bought the Red and White 1994 Silverado I drove it to work the next day to show my co-workers. 
The CEO of the company I was working for at that time came out to look at it and he said, 
" I cant believe you bought this truck, this is the exact kind of truck I've been looking to buy." 
Two weeks later he did buy a truck to be used as his personal use company vehicle. 
That guys name was Doug Dippert, the company he and I worked for was Bio-Electronics, 
and this is that very truck he went out and bought two weeks after he saw mine. 
I actually drove this truck and probably put close to a thousand miles 
on it back in 1995 hauling equipment in it from time to time.