Txrdnek's 49 build

[txrdnek]

Howdy Yall, been on this site for a couple of years now and posted a few things here and there, now after almost a year letting my girl rust up again I guess I'll start a thread so's I can maybe keep up with my progress and get this girl back on the road.

My truck is a 1949 3600. I have been searching for an ad truck for many years that I could make into a cruiser. So after a long search and money being right I got this truck








As you can see, she was pretty rough. She was rusted in three of the the cab courners but not all four believe it or not, and the bed had a bad rust spot on the drivers side because somebody decided to put plywood in her floor over the top of the existing wood floor. But is seams they didn't treat the plywood and it held water right there and rusted out the panel. A look into the trucks life, she started her life as a county work truck still had the county truck number on the dash and about three inches of tar on her underside, engine, tranny, and rear end, then was sold to some sort of orchard, later she was sold at auction to a guy who put her out to pasture for a while until the PO I got her from rescued her but never did anything with her and thankfully sold her to me.

My plans for her are to put her on an s-10 frame, cause while I like the look of the old trucks, I don't like the I-beam ride of them and this is an easy, inexpensive and quick way to get IFS, install a v-8, that 216 and granny four speed just don't get her done anymore, and i got rid of that awful rust and paint. Please, don't say she has patina, patina to me is another word for dung, and we all know what you get when you polish dung. Why a person would spend all that effort and money to rebuild a truck and let it look like that is beyond me but to each his/her own.

A little back story on me, I grew up in the minitrucking scene, I built a lowered and v8 powered s-10 when I was 18 that won runner up at the local show, yes I know second is the first looser, but the judges gave me a trophy for my efforts. That led to a couple of other trucks I built witch were 1969 chevy lwb, and 1979 chevy c20 van, and a 1978 chevy stepside (my baby, wished I had that one back). But this project is deffinetly the most involved I have ever done.

I have already made alot of progress on the truck so I will make some quick posts to show my progress so far and I hope the pictures uploaded ok, been having trouble with my internet provider so if the don't show let me know and I will try again to upload the pics.