1958 Project

[Houston54]

Although I still have plenty of sheetmetal work to perform on the cab I decided to play with some fiberglass for a little while.

I was planning to do the typical stepside bed until I stumbled across a donor truck in the form of a 55 or 56 Cameo.

Although much of the bed trim and other cameo elements have been lost to time and scavengers there was enough of the bed left to make it interesting. The remains of the cab also provided some parts I was lacking and the chassis has a 12 bolt posi, TH400 and a 1970 350 which may be a 010/020 block. It will be after the holidays before I delve into those parts as I am focusing on rehabing the cameo bedsides first.

As the tailgate is missing I will need to come up with a solution which will probably be a reproduction skin on one of my extra gates. The latch mechanism though will need to be redesigned.

Here are some pics of the current efforts.

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/23617983

The chassis and sheetmetal work can be found under other albums on that link.