Gregg and his Dad Wayne started working on the truck together as a father-son project, starting with a V8 conversion kit (before the days of advanced adaptors) Wayne was talented machinest for much of his life so this was right up his alley. Later in 1992 after coming home one day, Gregg had parked the truck for the night in the garage. While sitting unattended with a very hot engine, a fire had broke out under the hood, melting wires and caused the starter to engage. Cranking the engine over while burning, running the fuel pump which just kept feeding the fire bigger and bigger. The fire department was able to save some of the truck it was almost a total loss.
This did not deter Gregg and Wayne from continuing the project. Slowly but surely they had it put back together as a recognisable Chevy S10. In 1997 Gregg moved to Calgary, the truck was parked for the last time, with intentions to fully restore it as a street rod. Being 22 years old, life left little time to work on the truck and in 2007 Gregg had started a company called Range Mobility. This consumed his life immensely for the next 7-9 years. The S10 sat in the dark garage as nothing but a dream. Wayne fell ill to colon cancer and shortly succumbed to the terrible disease in 2017. This impacted Gregg immensely as he lost his partner to finish the truck, still not deterring, Gregg talked with many people with plans to STILL finish the truck. In 2018 Gregg’s world got turned upside down when he was diagnosed with colon cancer himself, he battled the terrible sickness for months and months, being faced with the worst battle anyone could imagine. He still talked about getting the S10 back on the road. His battle with cancer was extremely taxing on his body, anyone who saw Gregg noticed this.
March 28th 2018 the idea came to give Gregg (terminally ill) a chance to drive the truck before the sad day arrived. Range Mobility teamed up with many other volunteers to overhaul the truck with Gregg not knowing we had it. The extremely emotional rollercoaster was tough, but as a team, we had completed Gregg’s dream through many donations, sponsors, and general great hearted people. On June 2nd 2019 we planned a car show at Range Mobilitiy’s facility as a “Come show your ride to Gregg” the turnout was amazing, far more people arrived than expected. Gregg arrived to Range Mobility around 1:30pm, I walked with Gregg through a yard full of beautiful vehicles, everyone in attendance gathered inside the shop. As we approached the shop entrance I stopped Gregg and said “there is one specific vehicle here we all want you to see” opened the door, he walked in and saw his S10 sitting in center of an empty shop with everyone gathered around. In utter silence Gregg almost collapsed seeing his truck complete.
Greggs dream was sitting in front of him, keys in hand ready to go for one last ride. On July 11th 2019 Gregg had succumbed to Cancer and passed away. Promising to the Stevenson family and Gregg’s new bride Jenny that his dream of car shows, burn outs, drag racing and being involved in the car enthusiast scene will live on.