'64 chevy 2wd to 4wd

[dieseldawg142]

thanks Ol Blue!
been dickin' around with my deora. i know it's a show truck & goes for the wow factor & doesn't have to be practicable, but i want to make it more of an everyday truck. the sideways mounted gauges & steering column are going, almost have this '65 chevelle dash mounted in there like a conventional vehicle.


which means the front clamshell door is not going to work. i'm eliminating it & etched some doors in the sides, opened up the wheelwells & got rid of the show truck exhausts


have a exo-skeleton cage design in my head that will be next

[Ol Blue K20]

Right now it kinda reminds me of lunar vehicle...the chevelle dash should help get rid of that. Can't wait to see it progress.

[dieseldawg142]

yeah, it does resemble some kind of space mobile, & it's almost a 50 yr old design! once the exo skeleton, f&r winches, big bumpers, cab rack, roof rack & a bunch of other junk goes on, hopefully should resemble something more earthbound
mix-mash interior so far. '65 chevelle dash, '95 firebird steering wheel, & i lengthened a '96 explorer console. got to make some window cranks & door handles

[Ol Blue K20]

Dash and console looks good in there. Takes some of the futuristic look away. Nice job

[dieseldawg142]

dont know Dale, started a exo-skeleton cage & it still looks like a moon mobile, maybe once the bumpers & stuff are on....
closed out the door & sanded the pebble grain off


thinking white with black bumpers & cage & these stripe decals i made on PAINT. the black wood is for cabinets inside, & the granite decal is for the floor & counter tops


axles weren't wide enough, cut off the tubes, drilled them out & made them longer with some 1/8 tubing, added valve stems to the rims too. started the cage, the f&r tubes will eventually tie into the bumpers, the middle bars & ladder will tie into some rocksliders


so far...

[Ol Blue K20]

Looking pretty bad @$$....

[dieseldawg142]

dont know 'Ol Blue, still spacey looking. maybe if i cut the side windows more square-ish....
with this great summer weather, this has slowed down to the back burner, have managed to squeeze some stuff in though.
molded in the flip up windshield & front door, looked kinda plain so i added some 030 rod around the windows for trim. made a bed, couch, table, counter with cupboards & a flatscreen for inside.


decided to go with the carbed chevy, the LS is too much eye-candy to waste on this, you will never see it once it's mounted, which meant moving the engine mounts & making a new tranny mount, & cutting off a bunch of he 2wd stuff as well. started a front bumper (will have a big guard of expanded steel), & just started the springs


put a bunk bed in the topper


yeah, i think if i square out the side windows some....prob. match the exo cage lines better. been making a couple cage mods

[Ol Blue K20]

Spacey or not it's looking cool. You're doing a lot of cool custom stuff to it.

[dieseldawg142]

thanks Ol Blue!
squaring up the windows a bit sure helps i think


check out what my oh so awesome wifey snagged at a garage sale for $20


all of them new in the bags with decals & inst.
the Pete was only 5 bucks, it's a keeper i'll eventually build
the acura was 3 bucks. sorry tuner/import fans, this thing has a whack of cool parts that will be going on my trucks
planes were a couple bucks each, my son is all over them

[Ol Blue K20]

Your wife likes you alot obviously. ...lol

[dieseldawg142]

yeah....sometimes though i think she does it just to keep me quiet, out of sight, out of mind, in my hole....


put window pillars in the cab, wont install the side windows, but will cut a piece for a permanent window behind the pillar
front springs in, back ones almost ready to go in

[dieseldawg142]

finally sittin' on it's own suspension

[Ol Blue K20]

I think the pillar in the window really helped it. It's looking real good

[dieseldawg142]

yeah, i think that the roundy side windows didn't flow.
got a little more done, rock sliders are finished. still got to plumb & wire the motor, put front shocks in, steering gear, u-bolts & plates, exhaust & brake lines.



added a 'puter for GPS'ing out in the boonies

[dieseldawg142]

waiting for my winches to hurry up & get here so i can finish the bumpers


almost ready to lay down some color

[dieseldawg142]

calling it done
couple susp. shots before anything went on. pretty much impossible to side lay it now. color is toyota met. cashmere beige (??!!)

[dieseldawg142]

couple more...



in with the other junkers

[dieseldawg142]

deora truck was somewhat off the wall, going to do a rebuild on something a little more normal-Blazer, another old clunker


no body line down the hood, some 030 rod & filler...


42" groundhawgs. the usual, big lift, big tires, stock-ish body. dont have a topper, so have to make someting


just happened to notice these hawgs are almost the same size as the Peterbilt tires, hmmm....


leafing threw my caster's catalog i see 49" swampers, a little bit of lift, six of those & a wrecker boom off the back. any opinions?
found some good prints of a Holmes 750, dont look like it would be to hard to make....

[Ol Blue K20]

Deora came out awesome. I love display case and it's one off custom builds inside. Keep up the good work

[dieseldawg142]

thanks OlBlue!
case was courtesy of my wife. in the early 90's she worked at Kmart, then the canadian K's closed & she brought this nintendo display case home. if you pull off the auto stickers, there's nintendo wrote all over it.
started making a topper, & some of the rear susp. in.


thinking 2 toning this one. wife says there's not enough color in the fleet & suggested yellow & white (gag!!?), but after looking at some yeller & white blazers,....maybe...

[dieseldawg142]

not really a blazer update, dawg strikes again. was pouring rain outside so i let dieseldawg in the house. stupid me i let him wander into the bedroom & his tail tagged this '99 silverado off the dresser, bummer....oh well, not crazy about stock newer trucks anyways, another one to put on the "lift list"

starting to dig the yella & white a little more (web shot)

[Ol Blue K20]

One swipe of the tail and totaled. ..wow! LOL. I like the wrecker idea and I have always liked yellow and white. My two cents

[dieseldawg142]

yeah,.. like i said, my own fault thought, can't really criticize dawg when i let the big dummy with a 10lb tail come into the bedroom. just what i need, another clunker to re-do...still got this in the back of my brain like a splinter, hoping to git r done soon! maybe a big n little wrecker combo

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

yeah,.. like i said, my own fault thought, can't really criticize dawg when i let the big dummy with a 10lb tail come into the bedroom. just what i need, another clunker to re-do...still got this in the back of my brain like a splinter, hoping to git r done soon! maybe a big n little wrecker combo
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I like wrecker.I drove for 12 years...

[dieseldawg142]

hey, cool!
got any pic's?
ALWAYS use idea's....