Question about '48-49 dodge p/u

A friend of mine found a 46/47? 4x4 dump, sitting in the woods where he was hunting...talked to the farmer who said the truck had been sitting there since the 60's..the farmer told him if he could get it out he could have it....he started with a chainsaw to remove the trees growing up thru it, pumped the tires up and they actually held air, put a 12V battery in where the 6V should have gone dumped gas in the carb and it fired up..he drove it out of the woods.