1981 Chevrolet C50 Pick-up Conversion

[zirk]

The truck mirrors do seem less busy, but the big stainless ones would be cool too. Tough decision.

[superduty_59]

I vote for the pickup ones!

[Towstrap]

i have the big stainless ones on mine, but there all black like my truck and i pull a good size trailer with it so i like to see whats all be hide mee

[JRANGER]

i like the truck ones...

[truckfan]

Originally Posted by UPNADM

Got out early to do some weed trimming... trimmer would not start...

So I hung my passenger door and got in in line.

Started thinking about mirrors, I have three sets, of mirrors:

Painted arms & chrome mirrors (where on truck when I bought it)
Stainless mirrors that I got at swap meet
GM pickup mirrors

I am kind of leaning towards the pickup mirrors, they seem less busy.

Any thoughts?

dont drill all those west coast mirror holes!!!

there was a version of the chevy stainless mirrors that would extend out. might be nice for the dually fenders and higher ride height.

i found these online in a few minutes.

http://www.buy.com/prod/rv-motorhome...230621750.html

[bucannon]

the regular pickup mirrors seem best, unless you plan on doing alot of towing

[tylervalo]

I'd say it depends if you want the truck's attitude to be, if you want to keep the industrial use image the larger one, if you want the daily driver image the pickup mirrors.

[Bigasstrux]

My trucks generally sit up a bit taller than yours, so I usually go with the bigger mirrors to have a big truck look. I did use the smaller pickup mirrors on my 1987 Chevy ex-ambulance and I thought they looked good, with 19.5" tires and air suspension, it sits a bit lower than the others. your truck is gonna look so good it won't matter which you go.

[Bigasstrux]

Here's a set of big mirrors on a smaller C60.

[UPNADM]

Originally Posted by JRANGER

looking good...cant wait to see the first coat of full body paint

Words of encouragement...

Left my office early today and decided to prime my box sides and went a little further.

Got in a bit of a hurry and mixed and sprayed some paint. I got a good starter base to work with. I still plan to do some rolling, wet sanding, cutting and buffing.

Here is where I am at:

[UPNADM]

A couple more...

[JRANGER]

ahhhh soooo nice......

[zirk]

looks awesome!

[UPNADM]

As for the mirror debate, think I will go with the smaller truck mirrors... However after seeing bigasstrux display, I do enjoy the others... hmm.

[N2TRUX]

My first instinct would be the stainless truck mirrors. I mean this is a big azz truck, so those go with it. After looking at it again, you have cleaned the lines up enough that the GM dumbos wouldn't look to small. They will clean things up even more I think.

[UPNADM]

Got some color on the cab over the weekend. Everything is 90% painted. Hope to get everything re-assembled this week.

Here are a couple shots to give the idea of the size.

[rchavez101]

Looks great. Good job
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[JRANGER]

hell yeah

[truckfan]

Killer. I will take one in Chrome Orange with simulators.

let me know when its ready!

[superduty_59]

Very nice! Can't wait to see more!!

[missinfishin10]

Awesome!

[MadManAndrew]

Think it might be hard to let this one go? Lol
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[UPNADM]

Thanks for all the kind words... Getting closer...

[JRANGER]

So what kind of rear bumper you going with?

[UPNADM]

Originally Posted by JRANGER

So what kind of rear bumper you going with?

I am thinking of going with a roll pan.

Thought about of doing a molded truck bumper as well.
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