Post Your Ride 47-55 Trucks

[horvath]

Oooh yeah!

[solidaxel]

Rob, can you give us some more photos of the interior.
What size tires are you running and can you give me the measurment from the center of the wheel well to the ground. Did you move the rear end back to center in the fender, if so how much. what suspension do you have in the rear, and which axle (width)
You have a very nice completed truck...................my goals...soon.
Thanks

[Hart_Rod]

Body:
Indigo blue with custom flames. New steel bed (with steel floor and Rhino Liner), new custom tailgate with reversed handle and scissor latches, new steel rear fenders with Hagen gas lid in drivers side, new Rock Valley running boards. New triple plated chrome bumpers. New chrome grill. Stainless tail lights, head lights and mirrors. Custom recessed firewall. GearHead flush mount LED third brake light. All new tinted glass, Custom one piece front windshield (not v-butt). The underside of all fenders, bed and cab have been Rhino lined.

Interior:
Custom pleather interior with sculptured flamed panels. 2000 Chevrolet truck seats with integrated seat belts and custom center console. It’s a Snap 21 circuit wiring harness with built in relays. Tilt steering with Colorado customs leather half wrapped billet steering wheel. Dakota Digital gauges, polished aluminum throughout interior (door handles, pedals, vents, a/c control panel, mirror….). Vintage heat and A/C with defroster (all electric no vacuum). Newport engineering wiper motor. Balls electric windows. Alpine CD player, with Polk speakers (2 6x9, 2 6in mids , 2 tweeters, 2 10 inch subs in custom box), and 100 watt class D amp (over $2,000 in stereo).

Chassis:
Boxed original chassis with Heidt’s Mustang II front suspension, sway bar and 11 inch GM rotors and calipers. 9 bolt borg warner rear end (out of a 1985 Trans Am) with 3.73 posi, disc brakes, chassis engineering leaf springs and rear sway bar (rear-end moved back about 1", but make sure you mock up with your bed and fenders since all these trucks are a little different). GM power dual master cylinder. 17 inch FatLip (18 inch centers) Budnik Famosas (17 x 8 rear, 17 x 7 front). BF Goodrich T/A Radials (255 60 17/ 235 45 17). Front are 11 3/4 ", rear are 13 3/4 " ground to center.

Engine:
350 LT1 (aluminum heads) 300 HP, fuel injected motor (all new sensors and injectors) with Howell Engineering wiring harness. Cruise control, Lokar aluminum throttle and kickdown cables, March pulleys, 140 amp alternator, sanden a/c compressor, billet aluminum valve covers and air cleaner. Stainless steel fuel and transmission lines, Walker Radiator radiator with a/c condenser and CoolMate 2700 cfm electric fan. 3 Chamber Flowmasters, aluminized exhaust with stainless steel oval tips. Optima battery.

Transmission:
4L60E.

I'll try to get some better pics of the interior this weekend.

Rob

[escher]

nab some under hood and suspension shots!

f***ing sweet truck man!

[Hart_Rod]

More pics.

[Hart_Rod]

More pics.

[Hart_Rod]

My new project (one of them!)

[HSRACER]

Originally Posted by Hart_Rod

My new project (one of them!)

Here is how it turned out after Lon finished it.

[PCella]

Originally Posted by Hart_Rod

More pics.

Man that is almost scary how much your interior looks like the interior that I had put in a 46 I built a few years ago.
Same steering wheel, same seats, flames are almost exactly the same. Mine were just red and gray.

[solidaxel]

Originally Posted by PCella

Man that is almost scary how much your interior looks like the interior that I had put in a 46 I built a few years ago.
Same steering wheel, same seats, flames are almost exactly the same. Mine were just red and gray.

Do you have any pictures?
I built this truck 10 years ago and it is still on the road daily, 65K on the clock

[horvath]

Wow.

That is one finished truck! Beautiful stance ... nice wheels ... sweet on every count!

[horvath]

HA! You sure have some MEAT in the rear!

[Hart_Rod]

You've got a pretty sweet ride yourself. Your website rocks! (pun intended)

Rob

[horvath]

Originally Posted by Hart_Rob

You've got a pretty sweet ride yourself. Your website rocks! (pun intended)

Thanks, Rob.

[Palf70Step]

These are posted for member Solidaxle... Hope the resizing worked out like you wanted.

Beautiful truck Bob!!

[Palf70Step]

2 more

[yoshi]

Candy brandy wine, SBC350/TH350 lowered 6" with mustang2 clip & 9" rear, 17/18" ARW's

[49tomchevy]

Number 1 question, when you gonna paint it. 49 Original frame, 77 c-10 IFS, Centerline wheels, 350/350 turbo. Don't know what seats are. Replaced hacked firewall and dash. Did all work.

[Famous Tater]

My 54 3100. 54 3100 on an 89 S10 frame, 350 w/ auto O/D tranny, 4 wheel disk, full air ride with slam air 2600# bags all around, Accuair VU4 Manifold, 3/8" lines and 7 button AVS controller. 54 Caddie bumper, original 50's visor, 53 grille and "fake" windshield divider to look like earlier windshield. 15" ralleys, Coker WWW's, raised S10 floor in the bed, 4 Link rear, white interior with 36" Lokar shifter, Dakota Digital gauges, all new wiringAttachment 1402667. Even made a custom bike rack for the bed to hold my old Huffy bicycle at shows. Love this truck!

[Neils1958]

My '54 GMC.
History:
My dad bought it in '64, it came home with a broken crankshaft, he got it running after a lot of looking for parts, then the water pump failed, and he parked the truck and bought a new car.
The truck was an original 4 speed automatic, which means that the engine had a one of kind crankshaft, the transmission was one of a kind (very few built, and in '84, I could only find one person who knew how to work on it). The drive shaft was a torque tube. Bottom line a cool truck, but hard to work on and get parts.
I got the truck in '84, worked on it in the '80's, '90's and early 2000's, every time I get some money together for the next step, the family needs would come up and I would stop.
Finally retired (for the first time) in 2012, and my wife said get it done. I found Suncoast Speed and Custom in Tarpon Springs http://www.sscustomcars.com/ to finish the project. Now I am driving it.
Details of the build:
Mustang II front suspension with Granada rotors, frame boxed forward of the firewall. Ford 9" in the rear, currently a 3.23, considering a change to 3.56 or 3.73 later this year when it gets the limited slip.
ZZ4 SBC with fast burn heads, roller cam and rockers, Edelbrock EFI PRO FLO 3500, final approximately 400 Hp and 400 lbs-ft of torque.
Headers and exhaust system are custom bent SS from Richards Performance Mufflers in Oceanside Ca. http://www.rpmmuffler.com/
TH400 trans with a Gear Vendors two speed Overdrive behind that.
Speedhut gauges (all electronic with alarm lights for high and low, GPS for speed etc).
Vintage air A/C and front runner belt system.
The seat is from Glide Engineering.
Bottom line: This truck is a 61 year old truck and has been a 50 year project, as it finally got back on the road in 2014.
Neil

[Neils1958]

Realized that I didn't have a good pic of the grill, so I went and got one.

[rtinniste]

my bucket will be done one day

[HUSSEY]

In progress pics...I need to get my build thread updated. This past weekend I finished mounting my bed thus finally concluding getting all the sheet metal fitted and mounted.

Couldn't figure out which pic angle I liked best so I just went ahead and loaded them all...

[my56chevytruck]

Here's my 56 chevy truck project that started over 4 1/2 years ago. I'm posting the pictures of the truck as I got it, and the motor I've dropped in and where i am at this time. Currently, I'm working on the bed wood (phew) and soon (I hope), she'll be on the road.

[blazerman scott]

1955 & 1953 chevy