1956 Chevy Pro-Street Build

[Nut Case]

ptc

I just got off a us military surplus equipment site, they have drogue chutes for B-52's to slow down, you know the "BUFF" the big ugly fat ferrr, they were only $10.00 your going to need at least two (2) for the big beast.

Just thought you might like to know.



Nutter than ever Case

Best of luck on the search for a place to hang your hat or chutes!!!!!

[ptc]

Well we found a home and it looks to be going through. I can see why so many people are homeless nowadays as it really is quite a CHORE to buy a home!!!! with all the regulations and paaperwork and stuff that has to be done.... But I guess most people just use CASH!!!!

Its a bigger home 2600 SF on only 3/4 acre that will suit me just fine, ----- I dont really need a 5000 SQ FT - T R U M P sign in my back 40 all year around anymore.... like at the old house.... lol

Its on a private drive with only 2 other homes on it, has a pool, a nice big yard for the grandkids with a fort already built!~, a garden area for the wife, and a somewhat large garage for me to play in... Ill have to add a bit more space to it, but there is room to grow it.

So God has shown us where we are going - and hopefully has blessed this new choice we have made.

Thanks for your prayers!

[RockinKees]

Congratz!!

It's going your way, I know!!
Looks good from up here

[Kim57]

Congrats.
Kim

[Advanced Design]

Congrat's on the nice place PTC. Good luck with the purchase and move.

[Roadkill58]

Congrats on the new garage for the BEAST.

Are you in the same neighborhood?


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[ptc]

Originally Posted by Roadkill58

Congrats on the new garage for the BEAST.

Are you in the same neighborhood?
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Nope we'll be a little bit further south but still on the east side of 99 in Morada, CA - Just south of Lodi

Got the Cab just about ready to go back onto the chassis, still messing with that firewall before I put it on one last time. The bed is ready now to go on but the cab has to go first. Body guy didnt touch the fenders in 3 weeks that he had them so they are not done either, its just gonna go together as a rat rod for now I guess.... will have to do the the body stuff in another lifetime!

[mud.man.rj]

Well it will be a rat with big balls...
Mudman.

[ptc]

Well got the firewall painted and then the cab on and mounted. Now ready to start the next step of finishing the interior, then wiring, steering and making it into a roller to deliver to the tire/wheel shop and get those BIG FAT TIRES mounted and fitted to the new wheels. Fronts too! --- The headers are going to have to be custom built around the tire/wheel combo in the front. Not much real estate in those wheel wells.

Heres where we are now:

[Kim57]

Looking good.
Kim

[Scottish58chev]

Looks great, that's some serious rubber for the rears. Love it ��

[RockinKees]

It's looking like a truck now!!
Those are some serious rear tires!!

[tiddlar]

hot dang bruh! looking very good! im dying to see the wheel and tire combo and what backspacing you chose....

[ptc]

Heres a bit more on getting the truck together for the big move....

Got the interior painted so that I can get the roll bar welded into place and not have to worry about getting paint behind it. So once its welded in, I can touch up the footprint areas and be done.







Then I started putting the front end all back together and getting that all ready to go. The body work is going to have a wait a little while, Im going to do a wrap on it anyway instead of paint I think, so its not that critical.

[my56chevytruck]

Hey PTC, I like how you did your front valance area.

[ptc]

Thats not mine... somebody elses pic on my page.

This is mine here:

[Kim57]

Looks good.
Kim

[oldman3]

Little by little it's getting there...Jim

[mud.man.rj]

Nice..

[Roadkill58]

Looking good.


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[ptc]

Thanks guys for checking in ! ----- Its coming along. Latest updates:

I got all the door hinges apart, 3 out of 4 came apart with ease and the 4th one had to be beaten to death, heated, brought to within an inch of its life with an arbor press to get the PIN out.... these things are TOUGH!!!

I blasted them all and will be just throwing some paint on them - then Ill rebuild them with new pins and bushing kits I got from Classic parts - $14 per set! cant beat that. Got all new bolt kits too to re-mount them.

I got my fuse box and CDI panel installed in the cab and all the wires out the front and the back. added all the missing wires needed for my 'custom build'... and then we put the bed onto the truck all assembled in one piece.... Those skinny tires look funny! ----

Got a quote for wheels from my tire/wheel guy this past week and it about made me retire the whole project. Almost $4000 all done and said for the CHEAP Wheels I wanted.... and WITH some sponsor money from them too!!!! NOT gonna happen!!!!!!

Spent the whole weekend just having this wheel thing eating at me. Thinking and trying to find some cheap steelies or something just to put on the truck... no luck anywhere on craigslist or ebay, racejunk all of them. Then I was talking to my drag racing buddy that lives around the block and telling him about the wheel issue I was having..... so he took me over to the corner of his shop where 4 boxes were stacked up covered with spider webs and dust.... He pulled them down and opened the lids....
A COMPLETE SET of Mickey Thompson HR-2 Wheels brand new in the boxes!!!! 18x15 rears and 18x6 fronts.



UNBELIEVABLE!!!! ---- I prayed and said THANK YOU LORD!!!!!!!!!!

Then I said how much ????? --- he said $1000 and they are mine -ENJOY!

Not the exact wheel I was counting on, but I guess the good Lord has "a little creative design ability" at his hand also!!!! I am thankful for the power of God providing thru others, and it never ceases to amaze me. TY!

[RockinKees]

I like the wheels, sometimes you just need some luck... and a dragrace buddy

Any update on your new house yet?

[my56chevytruck]

looks great, I really like the wheels and the front of your truck. How'd you do yours?

[mud.man.rj]

Nice going on the rims, perfect, must have been the praying, it worked.

[lower50's]

May not be the ones you wanted but what are the chances!! That sounds like a killer deal for any rims that size.