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[Rickysnickers]

I'm betting a tweaker is behind that mess.....

[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by Rickysnickers

I'm betting a tweaker is behind that mess.....

Drugs or alcohol may have been involved.

[_Ogre]

1959 Apache fleet side 32 pickup. Been sitting in family garage since 2004.

i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this family garage rotted and fell in on this poor truck. honestly for $1800 this is probably the best deal i've seen in many years. buy a new grill and bumper, then find a used bed and your in like flynn. the thing i've always liked about TF trucks is that they're set up for v8 motors.

[mr48chev]

That is a pretty nice cab and nose with a bunch of junk hung on it. If the other side is as good as the drivers side it is well worth 1500.

There is enough taillights there to keep your dump run trailers in tail lights for the next 20 years.

[mr48chev]

Nice 56 TF (not sure if Chebby or GMC) bumper in the LA area.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/8119...03733776309536

[mr48chev]

In Yakima WA 49 or 50 truck in a basket (maybe several baskets)

This truck is listes as a 53 but is obviously a 49 or 50 cab. What I can see of the box looks fairly decent but I don't see any doors.

[dsraven]

mr48, you NEED that. lol.
if I had the space, oh the beauties I would have.......

[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by dsraven

mr48, you NEED that. lol.
if I had the space, oh the beauties I would have.......

Very honestly If I had the extra money I would be down trying to make a deal on that one with my truck and trailer parked at the curb and my son in law and and some helpers along with me. I've got most what ever piece might be missing from it to have a pretty complete roller out of it.

[daveshilling]

If I was near Boston, I would already own this truck by now! Includes an LS swap donor for $7k???

https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/ct...684998869.html



1958 GMC Shortbed stepside Pickup

Decided to try and sell my pickup before the snow flies.
Truck currently has what I’m told is a Pontiac 350 4-barrel Motor does run with a lawnmower tank attached. The fuel tank needs to be drained and cleaned. I did have it running through the tank but must have clogged up again.4spd Granny transmission. Solid frame, No brakes. I have a new master cylinder with pedal (dual reservoir) New Rubber lines (All),Wheel cylinder rebuild kits. Rear steel lines are ok. Front lines need replacement. I have wood to redo the rear bed with that goes with it. Exhaust is junk. This has the large back window. Last registered in 1992.This truck needs total restoration. Not for the faint of heart! I picked up a 1998 4.8 engine and rear wheel overdrive tranny (Auto) with 125K (Included) on it that I was going to install and drive as a Rat Truck.

[mr48chev]

That is not a rat truck by any stretch, That is actual PATINA!!! That paint looks old enough that it isn't telling any lies and that body is actually pretty decent.

I'd say it needs more than a 4.8 but that setup would make for a real nice big window driver that would look pretty presentable after a trip to the detail shop or a Saturday's worth of elbow grease.

Well worth checking into if you live close enough to go check on it. I'd take my nit picker buddy and have him crawl all under it.

[leegreen]

here is something different
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...7665438310340/
1950 Chevrolet 1500 extended cab
$18,500 (Canadian $, probably 37% less in USD)
1950 Chev thrift master custom extended cab all the hard work done 1979 trans am clip. 1980 Silverado frame fuel injected 350. Turbo 350 Runs drives stops. Needs Tlc. And interior tilt steering b and m shifter new guages exhaust electric park brake

[mr48chev]

I originally planned to do that with mine but uses pieces of the window openings off a bu suburban that I drug out of the woods behind Paul Harpers house in Roslyn years ago. The Burb was so rusted we barely got it on the trailer.

[dsraven]

Looks like somebody spent a few nights in the shop fitting panels. I wonder how it would look if the doors had been stretched too. Some running boards would finish it off nicely. I like it.

[leegreen]

If someone is into the cab and wants a nearly finished project, this may not be a bad deal.

The paint and final body work looks good, but the floor might have been pieced together. Seeing that shortcut and knowing how and where these rust I'd want a careful look at front body mounts, lower cowl, hinge pocket and lower door pillars.

No mention of paperwork. I might have seen this one on the road a couple years back with Alberta plates - it might still be needing to pass provincial inspection to drive in BC.

Overall appearance of the mods, I think a 2-3" cab stretch along this line might work, but this one needs either 1/4 windows or longer doors. Moving the rear fenders back is surprisingly ugly, at least to me. I'd have to undo that and shorten the frame. The rear bumper is not working for me either.

The wipers are interesting, as is fitting the camaro? heater/AC box, although I wonder if the latter led to the butchery of the dash.

[mr48chev]

I think that leegreen may have hit on an important point. That truck may not pass inspection in BC and that might be the reason that it is for sale. That is even with a clear title in your name there. It has to pass inspection.

If it was brought to Washington it would have to go through the WSP inspection even with a title and you would have to have a bill of sale for the subframe, bill of sale for the frame and one for the engine plus have the subframe swap welding signed off on by a certified welder. Still that is 13,403.25 at today's (11/12/23) exchange rate making it pretty interesting to someone in the US. I'd build a new dash from what is there that would be a finished version of the dash that I have in my 48 cab now. I was too busy driving it to ever finish it right. The truck does have some possiblities for the next guy or gal if they are looking for more of a driver than a show truck and have the ability to think out of the box a few spaces.

Back a few years ago after the Kindome was knocked down and the new stadiums and Exposition center was built between them I went to the custom car shows that were held in the exposition center and there was a customized RED AD in the PNW that was a full on show truck with just about everything that would unbolt from the chassis chromed and fantastic paint and interior that was stretched about 3-1/2 or 4 inches though the doors and you didn't really notice the stretch on that truck as the bed wasn't shortened so much that it looked wonky. I never saw it at and outdoor show even at Puyallup Goodguys. I don't think the guy ever started it and ran it because that might discolor the chrome exhaust. That truck kind of got me thinking on the strech cab thing though.

I finally decided to use a GMC 1-2-22 125-1/4 wheelbase frame on my stretch cab and stretch the cab 9-1/4 inches through the doors. Then I can run a stock length short bed and and uncut frame along with long bed running boards. That is the reason I have several cabs that I collected over the years sitting around as it is going to be use the cowl off this one and the back and half the roof off that one to get as few filler sections as possible.

[mr48chev]

I wish that seller of the gray stretch cab had posted a full side shot but do we have anyone on here who can photoshop stretch the doors so the Door goes back to where the door post would be where it was originally on a five window. ?

Or add a quarter window with the shape and trim of the the back side of the door window opening. That wold take cutting up some doors to do but would have been possible to on that build as it looks like they used sections out of doors to stretch the back section.

[leegreen]

[mr48chev]

I'm saving those shots. to my inspiration file on my photobucket album Thanks

[leegreen]

matching the corner glass molding and size


just stretch it a bit but do it in the doors

[leegreen]

good thing I don't have a larger yard

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...4112219612352/

$2500 No Engine or trans

[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by leegreen

good thing I don't have a larger yard

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...4112219612352/

$2500 No Engine or trans

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Oh wow, One of those has been on my short list for years and you don't find them unless they are beat to death or severely high priced.

I wonder how many hundreds of messages he got and from how far away.

12 Valve and Allison trans and a rear end geared to match. Back a few years ago when the Americn truck historical society had their convention in Yakima there were some really nice ones in the show.
There were several nifty Canadian big trucks in that show too. https://app.photobucket.com/u/mr48ch...8-65cd3b048820

[mr48chev]

I checked with the guy who has the Gray stretch cab for sale in BC and he said that is licensed, inspected and he drives it on a regular basis. That makes it a lot more interesting.

[_Ogre]

if i stretched a cab it would be thru the doors
i had the seats in my 59 panel moved back almost 10"
i had to lean forward to look out my side windows
most legroom i've ever had in a vehicle

my son drove a mazda for a while,
he moved the seat back until it touched the rear seat

[dsraven]

reminds me of a firefighter I used to work with. a tall guy. at an accident scene he got in a vehicle to move it. it was a small lady who had the been driving before the wreck. he went to get in but the seat was waaay forward for him. he moved it back and got in, turned the key on so he could steer. the vehicle went through it's memory seat function and wound the seat as far ahead as it would go, with him in the seat, and it mashed his knees into the dash until the dash broke. he couldn't get the key off fast enough.
yeah, I don't have that problem. seat forward, seat up, steering wheel down some. thats me. I tell people I'm like a performance tire, low profile. haha.

[dsraven]

I look at the extended cab as a project with a great start. maybe extend the door into the area that is now blank, lose the little mirror and add a mirror that I can see whats behind me, pancake the hood, add running boards, swap in a bumper thats more period correct, shorten up the box some to be better proportioned to MY likes and swap the tail lights. most guys would say my taste is a little off though, lol.