Dropping my '64 stepside without messing with the suspension...

[L0WRIDE]

nice work todd _a

[Todd_a]

Originally Posted by L0WRIDE

nice work todd _a

thanks!!!

Man, I love those early 50's trucks! I want one so bad, but I don't have room for anything else right now. When either this truck or my Harley goes, I'm probably going to get one of those.

How's your Z'd truck doing?

[L0WRIDE]

Originally Posted by Todd_a

thanks!!!

Man, I love those early 50's trucks! I want one so bad, but I don't have room for anything else right now. When either this truck or my Harley goes, I'm probably going to get one of those.

How's your Z'd truck doing?

hoping to get started on my 65 in a week or so.as for your truck i would not give a damn what any thinks about chopping it your the one that owns it your the one thats paying for it and as long as it is done safely and your happy with it who cares. I've been told buy people that i cannot chop and channeling my 52 sedan but guess what i'm going to so good on ya

[PrerunnerRob]

Let me take a look to see if I can find where I ordered my spindles from, I think it was $600 shipped with all the disc brake stuff. No ball joint change out, everything bolted right in.

[Todd_a]

Originally Posted by L0WRIDE

hoping to get started on my 65 in a week or so.as for your truck i would not give a damn what any thinks about chopping it your the one that owns it your the one thats paying for it and as long as it is done safely and your happy with it who cares. I've been told buy people that i cannot chop and channeling my 52 sedan but guess what i'm going to so good on ya

Yeah, there are a lot of "Purists" out there that are getting upset that older cars and trucks are getting rare and that the number of them that are restored to factory is dwindling down now. I can understand that somewhat. But, there are tons of those cars that have gone to the crusher because no one decided to rescue them at all. So, a modified antique car that is still out there to be seen and appreciated is still better than a squished one at the scrap yard somewhere.

I would love to have a completely stock Model A and a completely stock early 50's chevy truck. But I also want 2 more of those with extensive mods done to them. lol

Some times people take modifying to an extreme but some times channeling a car (to me) adds to it more than it takes away. Think of a '32 coupe or roadster. with the factory stance it still looks cool, but if you channel it and make the framerails dissapear, hidden just inder the body, it seems to really enhance the look of that car as far as I am concerned.

Un-Channeled Roadster


Channeled Roadster

[Todd_a]

BTW, here is a before shot and a Photoshopped pic of what I am looking to achieve...

[Todd_a]

DAY 5:

I didn't get a lot of time to work last night on it, but I did manage to relocate the radiator down so that the hood will close now. I was going to cut into the front crossmember and add an extension to it but that looked a little harry, so I just left it in place and mounted the radiator at a slight angle and built brackets that hold the bottom down and away from the crossmember. I need to do some bending on the tranny cooler hard lines because they are against the lower radiator hose now. I also have to find an electric fan setup now because the engine mounted fan would hit the radiator and the upper hose if I attempted to put it back on.

I also worked on the throttle again. I realized that what I was trying to do was begining to be sort of a crap job, and determined that I may have to totally redo this from scratch to make it work in there. I may have to build a bracket to mount it on under there to get it where I want it to be. I need to move the pedal toward the front a few inches and relocate the lever that pulls the cable to the left and to the front a few inches.

Yesterday morning before work I cut down the seat brackets and rewelded them and painted them so the seat is lower now. I ca not go any lower with it without removing some of the tall part of the tranny hump. So this will be the seat height for now.

At this point I am interested in getting everything in order to get the truck on the road again, then I will finish the cosmetics once I can move it around. I am attempting to get it to a car meet that is coming up this Thursday and I am less concerend with having things like the floors and all those panels welded in place as I am with getting the cooling fan, throttle and gas tank installed and getting the truck drivable.

Anyway, finally some pics with the hood shut...

[Lemondrop63]

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Originally Posted by L0WRIDE

nice work todd _a

I have to agree with the nice work. If you are willing to get your hands dirty and do the hard work, then I say cut it up. Just take your time, make it safe and have fun with it. People have been cutting cars and trucks for years, it is part of our greatest hot rod history. LONG LIVE GEORGE BARRIS!

[Todd_a]

That's what I've been talkin' about! Good old hot rod/custom/street rod stuff. Chopped up, channeled, sectioned, Z'd frames, etc, etc, etc... Good old fashioned fun with a sawzall and a welder! haha

[Todd_a]

I guess what I did would be properly referred to as "channeled". cool... I'm a hot rodder now.