Project Evil Tow Rig - '87 CC SRW Conversion

[Evil Trailblazer SS]

Originally Posted by y5mgisi

Whats the story there? I have found that Red headed step children can never take the place of your original pride and joy.

The original one was a 1990 V3500 that I owned. It was a truck I bought 70% complete, finished it and literally within a month after it was done I had to sell it to get an ex-girlfriend out of my life. That is another entirely long story I won't get into. It was lifted and all just like this new one, but the interior and stereo was completely stock...

This one is far from the redheaded stepchild.
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[y5mgisi]

That sucks. I guess i worded that wrong, i didn't mean red headed step child but more just, a replacement. Anyway, i have just dealt with that myself where i have gotten a vehicle to replace the one that got away and it never felt the same. No matter how "superior" the new one was, it still didnt have the same feeling that i got from the original. But it was still fun! Anyways, ok, i'll stop talking now.

[Wellgeo03]

Any updates on your truck? You were one of the inspirations for me to buy my 90 crew!
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[tlawre87]

Any updates on your truck? You were one of the inspirations for me to buy my 90 crew!

A few months back I saw this on ebay. Not sure what happened on the auction though whether it sold or not. It was a great work in progress for sure.

[Evil Trailblazer SS]

I ended up just selling the truck to a member in Saskatchewan, Canada. He flew down and drove it home about three weeks ago. I just couldn't finish the truck and for the time being, with school I had to put other expenses ahead of the truck. I live credit debt free and was having trouble even paying for fuel for the truck so I decided it needed to go.

[K20chevy]

Originally Posted by Evil Trailblazer SS

I ended up just selling the truck to a member in Saskatchewan, Canada. He flew down and drove it home about three weeks ago. I just couldn't finish the truck and for the time being, with school I had to put other expenses ahead of the truck. I live credit debt free and was having trouble even paying for fuel for the truck so I decided it needed to go.

Sorry to hear that you had to sell the truck. But it sounds like it will have a good new home.

[68Timber]

Has the new owner started a thread?

[K20chevy]

Originally Posted by BRUISER

Has the new owner started a thread?

Not sure, but it would be nice to see the progress of the project documented somewhere!

[y5mgisi]

Any idea where this project is continued?

[6 2 Carl]

Hello Everyone,

I'm the guy who bought this truck. I did indeed fly down to Reno, and drive it back to Saskatchewan last December. The truck drove like a champ all the way back, even though we were experiencing quite the cold snap! As the temperature approached -30F the engine and tranny temps dropped below 90F. I ended up having to make a quick cold front out of a piece of foam board in a Wal mart parking lot, to prevent freezing my ass off!

I haven't done anything with the truck just yet. I have to build a shop first before I invest the money into a paint job. I have bought a complete wrecked 06 Duramax from a buddy of mine. The engine and transmission was built up in this truck to support around 600hp not long before he wrecked it. This drivetrain will eventually find it's way into the truck, but that is a few years away from happening.

As for now, it's just my "Fancy Redneck truck" and sees limited summertime use.

I'll keep this thread posted on any progress I make.

Cheers,

Carl

[MTCK]

Welcome. Glad others will get to see this truck continue down its path.

[COS399]

Carl,

Thanks for updating this post and updating us. Are you going to paint it as designed by the PO or are you going to surprise us?

Thanks!

[6 2 Carl]

I haven't decided yet, I'll either paint it like the renderings shown in this thread, or I might do a complete stock looking paint job, with factory trim and everything.

These trucks are old enough now, that they don't need a flashy paint job to stand out. The interior has already been so tastefully upgraded, without straying far from the original design. I really like all the work, and attention to detail that has already been put into this truck, however anyone who isn't familiar with square body trucks wont notice all the subtle upgrades in the interior, instead they'll just think it's an old truck that's been well taken care of. I think I want to continue on with that kind of theme on outside as well.

This is the type of stock two tone paint job I'd like to go for, I'm just not sure I'll be able to find exterior colors that will look as great, while still matching the brown and tan, of the interior.

[hatzie]

Two tone is almost a must with a crew long bed.
Blue wouldn't work with that gorgeous interior... Too bad because that blue and white truck looks great.

That '70s style white secondary color position looks better than the factory '80s below the trim to the rockers secondary color. The narrow stripe offsets the white but pulls it together like the '70s up level trim did.

Maybe...
Red with Cream or White

Dark Hunt Club Red Metallic (burgundy) like the 1995 GMC with Cream or White.

Light Brown and White or Cream.
Dark Metallic Brown and White a 1985 factory color combo.
Dark Metallic Brown and Cream is period correct too my 85 C10 was that combo but the 2 tone roof probably wouldn't work on a crew.


Anything in reds, white, cream, tan, and browns would look good. More ideas here.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=558524

[6 2 Carl]

Thanks for the ideas, and suggestions!

I just thought I'd repost, the original paint plans for this truck. I really can't go wrong painting the truck like this. Luckily I got a couple years to decide what to do, and I'm open to any suggestions!

Originally Posted by Evil Trailblazer SS

It is supposed to go in two weeks after SEMA, so the third week in November!

I'm going this route (as posted before)...


The white is going to be GM Summit White and the brown will be Toyota Sunset Bronze Mica.

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[y5mgisi]

I do like the look of that rendering!

[arrover]

Thanks so much for posting. If you could continue this thread it would be awesome.

[NewMexCrew]

Awesome looking interior. Please keep us posted on any changes.

[Red Beard]

Updates? This truck is awesome!

[K20chevy]

Thanks for keeping the thread up on this build Carl!!!

The original rendering looks great... if you want something more OEM, why not white as the main color and do the brown as the stripe in the middle but painted like the white and blue truck... (make sense???)

So the blue in white and the white in brown....


That could look really good too!

[COS399]

Anything new to post? I like this rig.

[wideopen1967]

Subscribed. This truck needs to be painted like the Fall Guy truck from the 80's TV show.

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+...91%3B800%3B600

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...llguytruck.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...llguytruck.jpg