Donz '65 SWB Stepper Budget Build...

[dwcardfan]

Looking good! I went to the shop this morning myself and got a little done. It was cold though.

[clemdaddy]

its nice making progress even when mother nature says 'not a fit night out for man nor beast'.
way to fight the cold bro...
enjoy the warmup and tomorrow, get your butt back out there.

[Ta2Don]

Thanx Guyz...

No time today for the truck... but I did get to help the boy service his Volvo and also helped future son-in-law move some furniture, then while having the use of my neighbors trailer, I finally hauled my ratrod project home...

Here's a couple of trucks that were at my friend's place… he just traded a 65 Chevy station wagon for the green GMC and the old GMC is a future project…

Here's a few shots of the ratrod project, quick plan is to build and flip to fund my Garage...

[dwcardfan]

That's a sweet GMC!!!! I like the rat rod too!!!! Drop a motor and trany in it.

[mjh1965]

As for the green GMC that's a sweet looking ride Don
And as for the Dodge rat rod, will it be finished by Christmas now its home then Don

[rusty76]

Cool trucks. I really like the Dodge. I like the frontends on those. Plus I like full fender trucks.....

[Ta2Don]

Thanks Rusty!!!
Here's a fender shot for ya...

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Thanks Rusty!!!
Here's a fender shot for ya...

Nice pic Don.

Where is that classic kids kart body?

Maybe someone has an old pedal car chassis laying on a scrap heap that you can graft in under it??

You could age the whole "modern" frame to have similar patina.

FULL BUILD THREAD HERE

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thre...rt-resto-rider

Hope you don't mind, but thought I would post up some pics of one I restored 3 years ago.


A friend has rescued the pedal kart in the pics below.

It is a Kettler , and they seem to be the Bee's knees of these type karts. Let me know if I am wrong.





This one looks and is as bad as it looks, but his boy has absolutely fallen in love with it.

The steering is buggered, brakes non-existant and clearly, paint and rust are issues too.

That said, he wants me to see if I can resurrect it, as he had saved it from the crusher, and as I said to him, if I had seen it on a trip to the tip, it would have found its way into my car for sure.



IT WENT THROUGH QUITE A LOT OF EFFORT TO GET TO THIS POINT......

The other stickers came from my collection of allsorts.

You will notice, the colours are Sinclair Oil Corporation colours.....





So if you had any chassis like this to modify and build in under the body, it could be perfect.

[rusty76]

Cool shot Don.

[TJ's Chevy]

Checkin in brotha, I like the fender shot a the rat rod project.

Drop in a 572 with a 200 hp nitrous shot and watch the bed fly off! lol!

[Ta2Don]

Originally Posted by rusty76

Cool shot Don.

Thanks Rusty!

Originally Posted by TJ's Chevy

Checkin in brotha, I like the fender shot a the rat rod project.

Drop in a 572 with a 200 hp nitrous shot and watch the bed fly off! lol!

If it was going to stay in the family, maybe...
It's a quick flip project to fund my garage build!

[Ta2Don]

Here's my Christmas present to me...

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Here's my Christmas present to me...

Very nice Don

[dwcardfan]

Looking good!!! Keep at it and you will be driving it before long.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Here's my Christmas present to me...

OK?...... So I have a corded one, but now I am really evious

Very neat Don..

Worth their weight in gold.

[Ta2Don]

So today started off cutting the P/S Box Adapter from the bent frame, then
dropping the '85 front crossmember...
Then with the help of my future Son-in-Law, we rolled the bent frame outta the way, then we rolled in the straight frame, dropped the '65 Crossmember and positioned the frame over the '85 Crossmember...
Of course we had the Grandson Supervising!!!

[65truckowner]

Looking good Don!

[TJ's Chevy]

Looking good brotha! Nice Christmas present to, I bought my dad a dewalt.

[Ta2Don]

Thanks Guyz...

Got the '85 crossmember mounted and the frame rolling...
still need to reattach the P/S adapter and box… but gotta change oil in the daily driver and help the boy with his fiance's car...

[dwcardfan]

Nice frame! I think I have seen it before.

[rusty76]

You getting there dude.

[Bomp]

Front cross member slide in pretty easy? I'm using a '79. One drilled hole on each side.
Looking really good there Don.

[mjh1965]

Getting it rolling is good are you going to paint it before you put the cab and bed on

[Grizz1963]

GREAT STANCE.....

[Ta2Don]

Originally Posted by dwcardfan

Nice frame! I think I have seen it before.

Thanks Brotha, and I do believe you have...

Originally Posted by rusty76

You getting there dude.

Thanx Brother!

Originally Posted by Bomp

Front cross member slide in pretty easy? I'm using a '79. One drilled hole on each side.
Looking really good there Don.

Easy fit… other than getting some assistance in dragging the frame into place, this was a one man job. On mine however, I have to drill one hole on each side, elongate one hole on each side, and drill a hole to properly mount the newer Center-Link.

Originally Posted by mjh1965

Getting it rolling is good are you going to paint it before you put the cab and bed on

Yessir, gotta clean and paint this frame before re-assembly begins...

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

GREAT STANCE.....

Thanks Mate!!! I will post a similar pic once i trade out the rear-end… I'm aiming to have a bit of rake...
Need to remove the trailing arm set-up from the bent frame and use it to replace the leaf spring set-up… I've already had the GM 12 Bolt axles re-worked into the five lug set-up and the Dana rear-end on the GMC has different rear axles... No worries just gotta grind a bunch of rivets and buy suitable Grade 8 hardware to re-install on the straight frame.