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01-29-2010, 12:22 AM | #1 |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Bainbridge Island, WA
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OldSub from Washington
I've put off being active here for years because someone else registered the name I use everywhere else. I've finally decided I should join the fun.
I have a bunch of projects that I'm not working on very hard. I'm currently off work on disability and while I can spend hours on the Internet I haven't been able to spend many hours in the shop. I have three personal drivers these days. A '55 1st GMC Suburban which is mostly stock powered by a GMC 270 and I've added front disk brakes, a 3.08 geared rear axle, Cragar mags and Honda Accord power leather buckets. It is a future project with lots of rust and hard earned patina. A '91 K2500 that is dead stock and I've resisted thinking of it as a project. Its the six-lug version with a 350 and 700r4. Lately I've been considering removing the tired 350/700r4 and replacing them with a 454/TH400 combo I have setting in a wrecked truck. I currently use this truck to pull my trailer and other utility purposes. No picture, nothing to see... An '85 Corvette. TPI 350 with 4-speed. Since its not a truck I'll stop there. My current 'active' project is a '54 GMC 1-ton 5-window. My target is a hard working truck to pull my trailer replacing the tired '91. I've replaced the Eaton rear with a 14-bolt FF with 3.42 gears and the front straight axle with the IFS from a '72 C20. I'm finishing the IFS install currently. For power I'm using a Cadillac 500 and a TH400. Tires will be Michelin 265/75-16s and I've yet to choose and buy wheels. The cab is the one in my avatar and I'll be modifying a utility bed hopefully making it look 50's for use on the back. I have a '54 Chevy 3100 3-window body only setting close to a '87 S-10 4x4 frame. That project might be next on my list though my plans change pretty often and this is one I've thought about moving back. I think this was taken the day I brought it home and before I started taking it apart. I have a '50 Chevy 5-window 1-ton that I am currently planning to drop on a 1/2-ton frame. Small block, automatic, power steering and brakes but staying with the stock suspension. This one is being planned around what my wife wants. I have a '47 (Advance Design) COE that I plan to mount on a '72 C10 frame and make a custom bed for. Basically I want a COE hot rod and while it might be fun to build a COE hauler I don't see that approach being near as practical as the GMC 1-ton project. I also have a '53 GMC 3-ton, a '54 GMC 1-ton with a Hydra-Matic, a '52 Chevy 2-ton and a '51 Chevy 1-1/2 ton plus parts of several others. I have a major bias toward the curved glass GMC's over earlier trucks and Chevrolets. My pre-54 based project plans really all assume I don't find a '54-'55 1st GMC that is right to use instead. So far as I've visited here I've been hanging in the '47 to '59 section which is where my real interest lies. I hope any of you who recognize me from other forums won't be too disappointed that I've decided to become active here too! |
01-29-2010, 12:30 AM | #2 |
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Location: Auburn WA
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Re: OldSub from Washington
From Auburn WA. Nice projects.
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01-29-2010, 12:52 AM | #3 |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Snohomish, wa
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Re: OldSub from Washington
from Arlington Wa
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Love is fleeting, but Chevy trucks are forever!!!! 1970 Chevy CST C10 long box 350/400 2008 Chevy Silverado short box 4x4 Had; 1951 Chevy short box 307/T5 1988 Chevy shot box 4x4 350/350 1971 Chevy C10 long box 4x4 350/350 1971 Chevy C20 long box 350/350 1971 Chevy C10 long box 350/350 |
01-29-2010, 01:03 AM | #4 |
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: longview,wa
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Re: OldSub from Washington
Welcome.
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01-29-2010, 03:06 AM | #5 |
Cancer Survivor in the making.
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Bainbridge Island, WA
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Re: OldSub from Washington
Thanks neighbors!
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01-30-2010, 02:06 PM | #6 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Northern California
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Re: OldSub from Washington
That is one heck of a fleet!
Welcome aboard from Northern California!
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