Daniel Lord had a truck that was his “baby.”

The truck came to him just as a body, which Lord attached to the chassis of a Chevrolet S-10, his mother Michelle Lord said.

That’s what Lord did: A welder and fabricator, he spent days in his shop working on everything from movie props for “G.I. Joe” to pieces for a Taylor Sheridan “Yellowstone” spinoff, and windows for the restoration of the Fort Worth Public Market building on Henderson Street, Michelle Lord said.

Earlier this week, Daniel, 43, was killed as he worked underneath a vehicle in his shop on Eden Road in Kennedale, Kennedale Police said.

The jack supporting the vehicle Lord was underneath failed, and the vehicle crushed him, Michelle said.

Lord was a “handful” growing up, and dropped out of high school to teach himself to weld, his mother said. He had a “mathematical mind” and could figure out how to make things just by picturing how he wanted them to look.

The color of Lord’s truck, a deep red-black, came out of an experiment with his painter. The men painted the truck thinking that the finished job would come out a solid color, but the vehicle ended up being “ghost colors,” Michelle said. That painter was the one who found Lord under the vehicle jack.

Lord entered the truck in competitions in Louisiana and Texas and loved to park it in front of the Henderson building to take pictures of it, Michelle said.

“I don’t know how legal it is,” she said, “but he wants us to have his friend drive that truck down the highway and spread his ashes.”

In addition to his fabrication work, Daniel Lord was the father of two children, a 10-year-old son and a 17-year-old daughter, for whom he “made sure everything was taken care of that needed to be,” Michelle said.

Among her favorite memories of her son, Michelle Lord said, was a time when he tried to climb on top of a bull sculpture near Fort Worth’s Bluebonnet Circle. He fell off of the sculpture and had to walk around for days with a “busted-up face.”

“He was always the life of the party,” Michelle Lord said. “He’s the one who would just come up with the craziest things.”