1950 suburban

[wuss721]

Here is my 1950 Chevy carry-all suburban. This burban has been in my family since 1982 when my dad traded his 1967 Chevy pickup for it. Mom said she was mad at my dad for a couple of days. My dad would use the suburban to drive people to fields to work. I started to work on it when I was a sophomore in high school and drove it till I graduated. I've been working on it on and off for the passed years but now want to get it out on the streets. I had the suburban sub-framed and went from the 235 to a 305 engine. Now I want to start working on the interior. The question is how could I mold the carpet over the firewall bump with out cutting the carpet. I want to install the carpet myself.

Here is a picture of my project

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[sweet70beast]

Love them Burbs!

[wuss721]

Just cleaned out the suburban hopefully I'll lay the carpet out this weekend.


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[oldcouple]

If its the polypropylene stuff, made from recycled pop bottles, good hot day, and a heat gun, put it in upside down, and heat it up, then use sand bags or something like that to hold it down till it cools, do not get it too hot so as to melt it. Once it cools, take it out and turn it over the bump will reverse. Try a scrap first. You can try a cloths iron as well,but use a towel to keep it from sticking, wet the towel and wring it out, you are steaming it into the new shape.

[wuss721]

I got to install my carpet this weekend. It came out alright for it being around 14 year since I installed the first one. It was a good time my kids helped out alot. It took longer but I felt good hearing my kids saying that they were done. Here r some pictures.

Here is my boy helping



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[youngrodder]

WUSS721-

How well did the carpet lay out over the trans tunnel? Did you cut the carpet in peices to install or it is one long run. I'm getting ready to lay some carpet down in my truck so I was curious. I assume that you glued it down to the floor (or jute).

Looks good.

Marc

[wuss721]

I did not cut the carpet. I took all that was left over and put it out in the sun. It was almost 80 degrees over here so that helped a lot. I started from the middle and work myself to the sides. The bump on the firewall came out well. I think it would be easier with two people working on it one to be pulling the carpet and the other one laying it flat. I used the loctite spray adhesive. It works better than the one you would pick up at autozone.

Here is a picture of the can.



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[wuss721]

I went out to Pomona this weekend and picked up some part for my suburban. I also put my seats in the suburban. I will leave them tan for awhile I just want to drive it around. The front bucket seats are out of a 2003 Chevy silverado and the rear seats are out of a 1997 Chevy Tahoe.

Here are some pictures








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[YBNORML]

Carpet looks great! Love the burb.

[wuss721]

Here is some thing that I'm debating on. I bought these aluminum strips from one of the supervisors at work. I had the red cardboard and took one off to checkout how it looks.





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[72ArizonaBurb]

Looks great! I love your burb!

[mr48chev]

Nice job on the carpet and the seats look like they fit the burb pretty well.

[sweet70beast]

I like the looks of the aluminum plate.

[wuss721]

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[wuss721]

Thanks for checking out my thread. Just have not had time to finish the inside with work and this crazy weather. But I'll post more picture when I do something else. I'm also making other little inserts out of the aluminum sheet.
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[Pop's C-10]

This is sweet

[wuss721]

I got my door panels done last week and just got around to installing them. Here are some pictures of my old rusted door panels and the aluminum ones.



This was done by a buddy of mine look ok I might just clean them up and hang them


Here they are


I also had time to go hang out with my dad and his burban

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[wuss721]

I've been working on the suburban on and off due to working on my house. Here is what I came up with the left over aluminum sheet. I had the aluminum sheet bent before I installed it I cut a piece of angle iron to put down. The angle iron was used so the the aluminum wouldnt bent. It came out good I think. I also hooked up some relays to my head lights way brighter






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[56ClassicTruck]

That's a nice looking suburban love that look...

[wuss721]

Thanks for checking out the thread. There is current picture of it.

[Flames97]

That's awesome. I'm seein more and more people building them. And I see why, now I want one too.

[yawdie1]

Looks great! Been looking for one for yrs. can't find any in my neck of the woods.

[mechanixman]

Great looking burb. conrgadulations!