my 53 five window

[fist5366]

got my seats in and my gas tank. Doing the shock mounts tomorrow. I got to take drive it down the road for the fist time in almost 12 years. I was just as excited as the fist time I drove it at 15.

[britnjc]

lookin good, whats the seat out of?

[fist5366]

Thanks. The seat came out of a mazda mini van not sure what year but it fit in nice and has cup holders. I was pretty excited about the cup holders lol

[Dieselwrencher]

That's pretty cool. Congrats!

[fist5366]

getting excited drive train is solid. Runs like a champ. Gettin her all back together then some primer, maybe some carpet. I think im going to give the old bill fold a break and drive it around under construction for a while

[fist5366]

hood went on today. Body filled the center strip and cleaned up my ten year old wheels. All in all not a bad day

[53GMC]

awesome work! you can tell its a truck from out west because there's no rust like in the southeast! haha

[fist5366]

thanks buddy. Ya there was very little rust makes it kind of nice. Did the grill this morning. Just lights, and some primer and she'll be ready for the road. Wont be done but good enough to cruse around while under construction.

[MarKist]

Looks damn good from my house!!

[fist5366]

Well the processes has slowed down due to body work. Wow body work sucks.

[traposo]

Truck looks great! Do you have any photos of the front suspension and steering components? Power steering? I'm curious how you set it up using the straight front axle. I have a 48 thriftmaster that I would like to do the same thing to.

[fist5366]

went on my first test run all went well. Drove it to the local hang out with no issues, still under construction. 700r was money well spent.

[fist5366]

I also picked up a electric fan out of a volvo for 5 bucks fits about as perfect as you can get for 5 bucks never got above 180 degrees wich is good, I live in AZ and it was 90 this weekend

[fist5366]

primered it today still need to do some body work but at least its all one color time to start on the bed

[troy54gmc]

Sweet truck. good to see another local boy...

[Kabwe]

Looking good, looking really good.

[fist5366]

Put it all to one color primer so I can start the body work. Not a fan of the yellow.

[T Hilde]

Nice truck. I like the color more than the wheels.

[traposo]

Looks great! What kind of steering set up do you have?

[fist5366]

think Im going to leave it a little beat up for a bit and just cruise her around.

[fist5366]

front end is all stock with the exception of the mono leaf springs and some homemade shock brackets. She's a little squirley but not to bad. The rear end is out of a 70 blazer with limited slip 3.73 gears, motor is 350 bored .30, port and polished heads with oversized valves, 700r4 trans with corvette servos, shift kit and lock in converter. The drive train seems to be pretty solid been drivin it around a bit and runs like a champ. Now its time to do all the body work and interior, all the stuff i dont want to do. No rush though as long as it runs good i can drive it ugly makes no difference to me. There is still alot of work to do but were makin progress

[traposo]

How did you get the steering shaft to clear the the exhaust manifold? From some of your pictures it looks like you moved the steering column over, but I'm not sure

[fist5366]

we built a box off the fram about 4" thick and moved it over. Not to bad and shifts the stering wheel toward the door a little but not real noticable.

[fist5366]

My little brothers 62 chevy, put a cam, intake, and some good heads on today. Hopefully it will be all up and running by tonight. 454BB,

[RCbowtie69]

Nice trucks