56 shop truck build

[dubie]

A couple shots from yesterday's festivities

[dubie]

a shot from the mirror of my buddies 59 Biscayne

[OrrieG]

Nice pics, I have a lot of my daughters when they were young with my truck too. Always told them hotrod pictures need pretty girls in them!

[Dan in Pasadena]

Pretty girl, Tim.....you're in trouble! Lol.

[dubie]

No trouble here bud, she's in love with a great girl that treats her right

[Rods57]

Originally Posted by dubie

No trouble here bud, she's in love with a great girl that treats her right

That's great Tim, that's all that matters that get treated right and are happy.

[dubie]

You got that right bud, happiness is one of the most important things in life. Life's to damn short

As far as the truck goes, I am wishing I would have went with my original plan of welding in a Camaro clip. The dropped axle route works great, it handles awesome and rides really nice, as long as you're on nice pavement. The unfortunate part is, we don't have a lot of nice pavement up here. You feel every single bump and crack in the road. So either a front end swap may be coming in the next 2 years or I'll sell this truck and use the funds to build the wifes 58 properly

[lowrodderchev]

I was running a drop axle once but after a little accident I went to a Camaro clip I hate to say it but love how well it rides

[dubie]

Time is counting down rapidly before the old truck gets put away for the 8 months of winter. The wife and I had a date night last night so we took the Dirtbag, got some take out and found a nice quiet place to take in the fall colors.

[RockinKees]

Nice picture Dubie!!

But eight months wintertime????

[dubie]

the wifes truck is going to get a full IFS front clip, just not sure what route we're going to take yet. Her frame has a 73 Nova clip welded in right now but it wasn't done properly. I'm going to keep my truck with the dropped axle ad do hers up right.

[dcmalone]

Truck looks incredible, great work.

[dubie]

Thank you.

Our daughters grad photographer sent me this shot yesterday. She took it as my son and I cruised away from the photo shoot and I had no idea she even took it

[rusty76]

Cool truck man. I'm a little late to the show but enjoyed reading the thread! Killer work and enjoyed the paint job.

[dubie]

Thanks rusty! It's sure a fun truck to rip around in. I have the bed floor to install and she's going to done. I'm looking forward to getting started on my wife's 58 GMC in a couple weeks

[Jbm1956]

Im still kicking around the idea of putting a mustang ii or corvette suspension or camaro clip in mine lol. But man everytime I see your truck makes me want to leave the lowered axle and lowered springs and get her going. Nice work

[dubie]

It all depends on what kind of ride you want. The 2 types of suspension will make for completely different handling truck. The axle and mono leafs are an improvement from the factory set up, but still no where as smooth as any ifs set up

[Nova_Cobra64]

Nice ride!

I sure don't visit here enough anymore. Didn't realize you were back on the forum and also back in Flin Flon. Was actually up there in July to do some fishing.

Last time I saw you on a forum you were just getting into airbrushing. Do you have a photo album anywhere that I can see some work? I finally made an effort to start learning a bit despite owning an airbrush for a long time.

[rusty76]

I know it is a fun truck!

[dubie]

You can check my airbrush work out on Facebook, most of it is on there. Search me up Tim Dubreuil

[dubie]

Well, with winter creeping up on us soon, it's almost time to out the dirtbag pickup in he shop to hibernate until May again. But it gives us time to make a few changes. After putting almost 2000 miles on the truck, I think I'm going to ditch my dropped axle and mono leafs front set up up and weld in a Nova clip I happen to remove from the wife's chassis. The dropped axle is a great way to go but our roads up here are so bad, it demands a little extra comfort. So along with that we will be swapping the radiator for a new one to control the cooling and we will have time to install some bed wood

[Red Foreman]

Good luck Tim with the Nova clip install, do it bud and you won't look back!

[dubie]

funny thing is, I was going back over your build just this morning and checking out your clip job.

[Red Foreman]

Originally Posted by dubie

funny thing is, I was going back over your build just this morning and checking out your clip job.

Yours being a Chevy will be a little easy'er not having to deal with the rad support crossmember like the Gmc. Are you planning on grafting it in the rails or running it under Lux style?

[Baldeagle SR]

Tim I went with a 79 Camaro clip on mine and I have no complaints at all. Steers nice, rides nice, got good brakes and it sets just right. yOU WILL like the Nova clip. Rich