Dad’s wrecker
A picture of my dad’s wrecker published in the Whiteville
My father owned an automobile repair shop and wrecker service called Spradley’s Garage & Body Shop in Whiteville, Columbus County. He had three wreckers, and the largest was Army surplus from WWII. More than a few times, he would be called for large towing jobs, such as pulling tanker trucks from White Marsh. On occasion, I was allowed to go on a tow trip, and it was quite a trip to be on.
In January and February 1948, when I was 9, we had two severe ice storms that brought down power lines all over southeastern North Carolina. Schools were closed two weeks. The power company enlisted Dad and his big wrecker to help re-set power poles. The roads were so bad that something as powerful as his four-wheel-drive wrecker needed tire chains.
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