52' chassis

[DaveCt]

Originally Posted by mr48chev

Good choice for a chassis. If I had the beans I'd seriously think about it myself as they are 180 miles from me and it would be an easy run over there to pick one up and bring it home.
After you have been on here for a while you will figure out that it's a great bunch of folks who have every build budget under the sun from serious low buck to the other end of the spectrum where they can build what ever they decide to with fairly unlimited budgets.

You will also find out that we throw out just as big a variety of suggestions. Some think a totally stock chassis is the only way to go or a stock chassis with a dropped axle and lowering blocks, a good number have drank the S-10 Kool aid and think everyone should run and S-10 because they feel that is the economical or cheap way to get a modern chassis. Still others like a stock frame with independent front suspension or independent on both ends on the stock frame and most of us only dream of a Morrison chassis ready to stick the truck on. All are good as long as a person builds a safe truck.

You will also figure out that we don't come anywhere close to agreeing when it comes to how one finishes the body out on his truck. Some firmly believe that rust is a finish on a truck rather than a sign of total neglect. Others spend hours figuring out how to make a fresh paint job look old and tired. Then there are the others who bust their tail feathers to make the truck as perfect as they possibly can and have a perfect and very shiny paint job laid on it.

No one can agree on what wheels to run. The mod rodders like the big ones while thinking that those of us who want 15's and white walls or big and littles are old fashioned and not with it while most of us who like the more traditional wheel and tire combos think that the hot lick of the week big wheels look rather silly when you get right down to it. The good thing, usually you can unbolt wheels you don't like and put ones you like on a truck in short order.

You will also notice that there is a core group who attempts to give honest and correct answers to any question thrown out and we get a lot of them while there are some who thing that shade tree fixes are the only way to go and a very few others who think throwing misinformation to the "new guy" is hilarious, then some of us wake up, read half the question and throw out an answer and forget to read the whole thread before giving an answer.
The main thing is that we collectively love these old GM trucks and love to see others progress on their trucks.

Vey well said.