47-55.1 Mom's '54 project build thread

[Daniel U]

Here's a bit of history of my mom's '54 Chevy truck in relation to my '54. When I bought my '54, I had no idea that my mom was so fond of it. Sure, she told me she liked it and even taught me how to drive (I was 16 at the time) with the manual trans. I also didn't know she liked the long bed. Even more, I didn't know she'd ever buy one for herself and want to restore it. So when she bought a short bed '54 and asked me what I did with my long bed chassis I about choked. I had cut it in half to make a trailor. So the search was on for an Advance Design longbed chassis. As of now we may have found one in the Sacremento area. I traded her bed sides, so no worries there. I also traded her my grill for her's as I wanted a chrome one and my original didn't lend itself to that. She'll be using the carbed 305 from my '84 Camaro and a 700R4 trans with a 10 bolt rear. She's going to be going for a different look than I am planning on, but it should be a clean driver for her. Well here's a few pics of her "rough" start. My brother will be doing most of the work ( BTW, no start date set as of yet) and I'll be docummenting it for her as she's not "comfortable" with forums. Enjoy!