Re: 1966 SBBW pro street
 

DUUDE looks killer !!

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Thanks man ....it's been a brutal couple of months with that truck....but it's back on track now i think....crosses my fingers

Your truck turned out killer, I hope you keep that thing long enough that we can meet in the middle someplace and park'em side by side..that would be killer

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:lol::lol: yeah its a keeper, i have some thoughts of doing a 66 sub and shorting it to a blazer length and then chopping off the roof and making it a rodster kind of how they do it with the 67-72 blazers;)

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Well it's offical I decided to cut the new fenders and add the 2 inch piece to even out the wheel space on the front fender. Then will be doing something with the bumper to tighten it up and clean it up. We already dropped the front bumper 1" lower and added to the valance behind it. I will also be lowering the front tab of the fender atleast 1" so that it sits in the same place on the front bumper. In true form i have to say i came across most of the mods on a differnt thread i was looking at and i really liked them he did a great job. I asked if he would mind if i borrowed his idea and he was more then cool with it


So if you don't know who i am taking about then you need to check out
" shrunken66stroker " thread . I think he has done great work and really dig the truck. Dude has mad skills and a great vision here is the link for his thread if you haven't visited it .

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...333241&page=30

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I have a short box rolling chassis sitting in my shop all powder coated and ready for the body and we were looking at it getting it ready to move about a week ago into the new shop. I don't really have a great body for it yet so I have been think about checking the short box wheel base and maybe cutting down a panel to fit a short box frame. Then splitting the back off to make a tailgater party truck.....the body shop guy was all over it...It's too much i think for me to take on in my shop so he knew he would get to put it back together and get a hunk of work out of it. I have never seen one done before split like that i think it would be awesome. Dude you live in the land of sun and warm you should so do that....would be wicked. If anyone can pull it off and make it look cool dude it's you. Here between the snow and rain it wouldn't be split much. The other thing i saw was a drawing on the site someplace was corvair van or something like that with a shortened 66 truck nose on it that i thought looked killer. But if i did that it would need a V-8....lol.....So many projects so little time. I so need to finish some stuff off and get some wheel time in

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Well the fenders are cut and extended and i managed to get 2 front bumpers to make one for the front.......So will start that soon

I will try to take some pictures of the fenders and post them in the next day or 2. But the coolest thing it's moving forward and starting to come together. I still don't have a color picked out for the chassis or the truck i seem to be stuck with all of that at the moment

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Cough, cough, Green like Dino's! :lol:

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Ya know.....i was going to ask him the paint code cause i think his is the blue color.....my cab was original the green color....I so couldn't paint it the same color as his, I wouldn't be able to sleep if i did that.......lol....that's just evil dude

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:lol::lol:

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Dude it was diesel's fault........lol

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Lmao!

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I would whine about there not being enough pics here but, that would make me a hypocrite and we wouldn't want that, would we? :)

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Hey I just got a new iPad your luck I can figure out to post with it period not alone figure out how to post pictures .... But I did take some new pictures in the low position
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Wow it's kinda quiet around here lately.....your not giving up on me are you all ?...lol

Okay so managed to get the fenders done and put the truck down...we had bars welded where the bags go so we could move it around easy and work on it . We got the bright idea to cut the bars out and lower to the bagged out point. I have no idea what happens when someone blows a line or gets a leak....It took forever to get the jacks out from underneath it what a pain...lol....anyhow

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Here is how things have been going lately......

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Getting warmer ......I really dig this mod....it's a great idea and i wish i could take credit for it...

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I wish there was more room in the shop to get back to take a better picture.....but it's jammed in pretty good right now......still more to do trying to decide what i want to do just with the front bumper.

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I am thinking about loosing the front bumper bolts and welding them from the back....When i stretched the front valance down a inch.....and then lowered the front bumper a inch...well now the fenders look too short so i will have to add a inch to them as well ...and now that the fender opening has shifted 2" the bumper needs to wrap around the fender a extra 2 "....I wanted to make a few subtle changes but keep the original type look i hope that by refitting it ....people might have to try and figure whats changed but not really know whats changed if that makes sense....lol

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Truck is looking pretty good... I thought it was in paint???

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Nope....no paint yet but i am trying to pick colors...I finished 2 other trucks in between that were painted but not this one. But it is back at the body shop now and it shouldn't be too long before things get moving on it.

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Cool pics. If I ever find time to work on mine, I will take some photos too.
I can hardly wait to get mine on the track to find out what it will do.

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Great work! I love the mods you're doing to the front of this!

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Thanks man ....

I just hope i don't screw it up with to many changes.....it ain't over till it's over....lol

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That's what Scott's Super Truck is for, order new parts....all looks good, you guys look great with metal you'll get the perspective right. Thanks for the updates.

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Let me tell ya.....it wasn't easy taking a disk to those brand new fenders and hacking them.....lol...and i already have back up fenders just incaseeeee.

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Can't believe i sold all of my done trucks.....what was i thinking ?
It's wierd i am surrounded in truck parts and engines and nothing is together and running. I might have to go back to the field of dreams and fire up one of the spares and get some wheel time. It won't be pretty ...lol...but something has got to run...

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DUUUDE LOOKS KILLER!!and sold some trucks??

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Thanks Dude i am nervous about changing the front end this much and not having a factory look up front...trying to give it that ....i know it's changed but whats been done look ....



- Sold a 66 suburban i had ....that i shouldn't have....had a wicked body on it.
- Sold the short box I built and have a thread for...
- Sold the long box i built and have a thread for.....drove it twice

Now all these guy's wanna drive around and hang out and i have nothing to drive....lol

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So i had 4 front bumpers on the truck yesturday.....each one is differnt in size and fit in width and length. I had original painted, original chrome .....aftermarket painted ....aftermarket chrome....What a pain in the a@@..So it looks like i have to extend the bumper as it heads back towards the fenders . It also looks like i am going to split the bumper length wise and make it about 1/2 or 3/4" thicker/wider. When i made the front valance 1" wider/deeper i think it sticks out to much and want to cover it a bit more with bumper.

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So if I understand things, the bumper is too low and out too far?? If you widen the bumper it will start looking like a cow pusher, new trucks pull off that large bumper look. I think you'll have to tack it all and step back to evaluate it. Better picture angle may get more opinions. My opinion for bumpers is tighter to the body and narrow the width make them look better. You want a stock look so a Camaro or Impala bumper is not an option??

Good luck with it, the fenders look awesome, and it looks like you'll have to sacrifice a bumper to find out what looks right. Just don't settle, keep trimming and moving till it looks right, and keep us posted of course.

PS- that hood mod looks incredible, you've been holding back on the updates.

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Ya i think what will happen is i am going to add a 1/2" to the top of the bumper....and i just cut it width wise to see what it looks like. Once i see it i will know if i like it or not......but i do want a stock look to it. Ya I admit it have been holding back on the hood a little because it's not finished and didn't want to get into that until it was all figured out. By the way your the only guy that noticed so far......i thought i was going to get away with that for awhile longer.....lol

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Keen eyes I guess, its very clean, I like these builds that have metal work, the re-engineering is interesting. Superfly sold his so yours will be the first finished. Stay the course and good luck with the bumper, you'll make it work.

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ya i noticed your splitting the hood like 'de bella', i think thats the one! i just didnt say anything haven't been on as much lately! truck is looking good thou!

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I don't know what "de bella" is ......


but i am working on spliting it...well it's split now and all of it is braced and i am waiting for the blower again to cut the hole in the hood now.

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heres a link to dibella! http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=392728

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Cool thanks......

Great build thread lot of nice work

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So this is where things got a little complicated.....here is what the truck looks like with the extended front valance piece....if you look you can notice that it looks a little wider...

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The WA state plate just happened to be on the bumper...or atleast it was when it came out of the field of dreams....

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Sooooo
After alot of thinking and several beer.....Someone came up with the idea to split the top portion of the bumper and add a piece to it make the valance look smaller....it's not all finished yet but i think it will look okay...it's growing on me now....

Re: 1966 SBBW pro street
 

I pulled my other short box rolling chassis into the shop yesturday...I plan on washing it and cleaning it up a bit.....it's been sitting for awhile undercover but it needs some TLC. I think I can use a break from the pro street truck for a bit.