My 1957 farm truck survivor

[hardwaa]

Bought this 1957 truck back in April 2020. It’s a 1 owner family truck. 265 v8 3 on the tree.
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[hardwaa]

More day 1 pics.

[hardwaa]

Made a deal on the truck. Grabbed all the loose parts including the pass door that had been media blasted and primered...why?!?! and loaded the truck up on the trailer and brought it home. Found this truck about 3 miles from my house.

[mongocanfly]

Wow....that's a great looking truck..!!

[oldman3]

Nice find, keep us posted...Jim

[Rickysnickers]

Very nice!!!

[G&R's57GMC]

Great find !

What are your plans for it ?

[_Ogre]

dang, that is a survivor!
original v8 truck, oil bath air cleaner and generator still there
vin starting with V would indicate original v8 truck if you want to confirm

[dsraven]

too bad it's in such good shape. you're gonna miss out on a lot of dirty work.
awesome find. keep posting those pics. hopefully it's as solid as it looks.

[hardwaa]

Thanks guys. Here is the first pic I took of it. Cleaning out phone pics.

[hardwaa]

First order was to get truck running. I was able to check fluids, wiring, and gave it some gas down the carb and it Fired!! The truck came with some new parts. I removed the old gas tank and installed a new 1 included with truck. I also replaced all the fuel hose and fuel pump.

[hardwaa]

Next I went thru the brakes. The previous owners brother stated to do a disc brake conversion but never finished it. I installed all new rubber hoses, cleaned all the hard lines. Repacked all the wheel bearings, added ne brake shoes and pads also replaced the master cylinder. Bled the brakes and we were in business. Drove the truck around the block!

[hardwaa]

Time to make it look more presentable. Installed chrome bumpers, tail lights, headlight doors, and front turn signals. I always paint behind the grill semi gloss black.

[hardwaa]

I also replaced all the tires, painted the wheels Sundance silver metallic. Then I added some new 1956 chevy car hubcaps.

[G&R's57GMC]

More pictures please

Love the hub caps

[hardwaa]

This is my first truck of this era. 1 thing I learned is that a 1957 is a 1 year only grill. I had a used 1955-1956 chrome grill and it would not fit the hole!! So I took the 57 grill banged some of the big dents out and painted it Sundance silver too.

[hardwaa]

Here are some After pics of all that work. Pics taken May 26 2020.

[Katrina/10]

That looks perfect, I really like that 1957 grille.

[youngrodder]

Such a cool truck..Love everything about it.

Marc

[G&R's57GMC]

Nice Job ! You made a nice driver .

Do you have any future plans in mind for it ?

[Dieselwrencher]

That was a very nice find and you have done really nice work on it! Are you going to try to patina match the RH door and roll with it? That truck looks so dry and solid it isn't even fair!

[hardwaa]

Thanks for the compliments!
One thing about this 57 truck is I Hated was the 3 spoke steering wheel...to much dish and no style. I like the flat style earlier steering wheel. To me it looks like a bottom view of an old airplane. So I swapped it and added a new horn button.

[hardwaa]

The truck had no exhaust either when I got it. I made a simple exhaust for it. I had the muffler shop flair the exhaust pipe for the gasket.

[hardwaa]

These bed side rails came with truck. I thought they were COOL and added to the Farm Factor. However they fit like crap and were unstable. I added some mounting points, braced the top spreader bar, painted them (brush painted silver hammer tone has a galvanized look to it). I also added some furniture pads to bottom of mounting brackets to protect the trucks paint. I did not want to drill any holes int truck or make it difficult to remove bed side railings.

[hardwaa]

More pics.