The Apache

[-hooch-]

Sorry if I'm a little long-winded... I'll keep it as short as possible.

Last April, I got home from the NSRA mini-nats in OKC and decided I wanted to get started on my own hot rod. About 20 years ago, my dad bought a '57 BBW with a '55 front end. It had a short wide bed he traded for a '59 fleetside bed. That's why it's so pieced together, but I think I'll have a great looking setup when I'm done. Thankfully I have a dad who's into old cars and had some idea of what might be popular in the future. So I came home and pulled the old truck out of the ruts it had sunk into.

Here it is when I first hooked onto it with the lawnmower...







And when we pulled it out and got the bed off. Man did it sit high!!



And with the front end and bed sitting on it.



That's my dad. He'll be in quite a few of these pictures probably.







And then pulled it down to the shop to get to work on taking apart everything on the front end and then reassembling it. Basically seeing how everything fit, what we were missing, and breaking loose all the nuts and bolts to get them freshened up.