David LaPell
Blackhawk
Over the last few years I was doing a lot of freelance writing. I did some in Backwoodsman magazine (I still like riding for them) and Fur-Fish-Game but then I got hooked up with Guns.com for a while and did a lot of writing for them. Then late last year they just stopped accepting my stuff and changed their format up a bit. I got in touch with them a month or so back, said they would be delighted to start having me write for them again, so I submitted a couple things, and now....well I have never heard anything again. It's ok, I know that sometimes things change and they want to try new talent and if anyone thinks being a gunwriter is going to make a lot of money, well, it might make some and it helped, but you are mostly doing it because you want to. So since they are going in another direction, so am I. I recently got a hold of Vintage Truck magazine, and they green lighted me for a story on a truck locally. Our local fire department recently acquired its very first engine after more than fifty years, a 1933 Sanford Cub. It was fully restored by the last owner and he agreed if he ever sold it to sell it back to the department and they have it now. So after meeting with the fire department heads and getting some good pics I hope tonight to get cracking on it. Sometimes you need to expand your horizons a bit and not box yourself in. I like gun writing and more importantly writing about older guns and the history behind them (too many stories about calibers and ballistics gets old after a while) but I think I can get into writing about old cars and trucks too. 
Here is the 1933 Sanford. I have some better pics but they are going to the article.
Here is the 1933 Sanford. I have some better pics but they are going to the article.
