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Volume 27 Issue 10
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March 2025
Constitution truckin’ Army veteran’s truck displays U.S. Constitution for everyone to see BY ERNIE DORLING U.S. Army and Vietnam veteran Bill Kinstler thinks of himself as an old, gray-bearded guy without a fishing pole or a set of golf clubs. Instead, his constant companion since his teenage years has been tools of every kind. “I’ve been working with tools since I was a kid,” he said. Kinstler used his experience and love of working with tools when he embarked on the project of building a uniquelooking truck. The truck is
a 1947 Ford COE (Cab Over Engine) model powered by a 1960-era Ford 427. It has a Lincoln Town Car Front Suspension and a custom-made frame. What stands out most about this truck is that it is painted with the Stars and Stripes and the U.S. Constitution. A local artist painted the truck,” Kinstler said. “There are no vinyl graphics on the truck. Building this truck has been a long therapeutic journey for me.
Come see the Constitution Truck March 14 at the BoomerFest!
CONSTITUTION TRUCK
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Bill Kinstler, a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, is passionate about the U.S. Constitution.
Lifetime collection leads to fun museum BY MARIA SONNENBERG
SENIOR LIFE Jill Blue
Edward Rensing, a resident of Indian Harbour Beach, has amassed an impressive collection of artifacts and eclectic items.
Relics in Rockledge? You bet, and they’re plentiful at Brevard’s newest — and most eclectic — museum, the Relics Museum, slated to open in June at 495 Gus Hipp Blvd. With 12,500 square feet of space set on two-and-a-half acres of land, the museum will provide enough room to display the vast collection of treasures Edward Rensing has amassed in a lifetime of curiosity. “I’ve been a collector of artifacts most of my life,” said the Indian Harbour Beach resident. During travels, through forays into
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eBay, from friends-of-a-friend-of-afriend and other sources, Rensing has picked up treasures big and small. He hit the motherlode when he met a family willing to part with historic items they would routinely purchase from smalltown museums that were going out of business. “I have many, many thousands of things,” Rensing said. From an exact replica of the Batcycle Adam West rode in his portrayal of the Caped Crusader in the iconic 1960s television show, to shipwreck artifacts,
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