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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: roseville
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What is unique about your truck?
One cool thing about car shows is that you can see what people have dreamed up and fabbed into reality. Not everyone can make it to car shows all the time, so I thought it would be cool to have you guys brag about the custom, 1-off features of your trucks that you are really proud of. Something innovative, rarely seen, etc.
I will start with this sick 5.3L copper engine cover by Delmo and Sam that I inherited. Hope this picture works.. |
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Lumberton, TX
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
That's cool and unique. Kinda steampunkish.
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Location: Newcastle, UK
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Idaho
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
Not much, just a bunch of 48-52-59-62-68-74-82-07-09 parts tossed together.
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Location: Corona, California
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
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Location: Corona, California
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
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Location: Corona, California
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
I built my own tilt bed.
Also made my own tilt hood mechanism. Kim |
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
Well, people have been making roadsters out of these pickups for years, so it's nothing new, but it is different from stock. Here's a couple pics...Jim
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Location: Newcastle, UK
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
thanks guys - it's going to be a food truck for my girlfriend.
It's being built in the UK by The Intergalactic Custom Shop. I've been planning this truck for over a year and the builder Wayne also has a head full of cool ideas. Seeing Daveshilling's kick ass engine cover has made me wish we could do something under the hood but it's a real tight squeeze under there already! |
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Location: Motown
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
most unique feature of truk is the driver
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cool, an ogre smiley ![]() how to put your truck year and build thread into your signature shop air compressor timer |
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Massapequa Park, NY
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
steel tilt nose...
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Glendora, CA
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
Nothin special about my stuff, just a lil weld here, a lil more grinding there. Same old stuff I guess.
Maybe the candy brown color?
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Location: Boise, Idaho
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
Mine is probably that when I bought it in 1973 when I was 15 it had a hot 235 with a home made four barrel intake. Or that I chopped it just a few months after getting it. And was a "rat rod" when rat rodding wasn't cool in the seventies.
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
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All posted here are too of course! Brian
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
Don't exaggerate, the bolts that hold your front bumper on are ho hum right out of a catalog.
![]() Very cool rig! Brian
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Location: Corona, California
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Toppenish, WA
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
Kim47 wins the "different" contest hands down. That is going to be one cool truck when it's done.
I've seen a lot of AD trucks with the top removed or with a rag top or padded top but Oldman3's truck is one of the few that got it right. The header on the windshield actually looks like a convertible windshield header.
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
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Brian
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Re: What is unique about your truck?
Nothing too exciting about my truck, it's chopped 4 inches, has Suicide doors and has 120 louvers punched in the hood and frenched headlights along with a dash that was made out of 1=1/2 inch exhaust pipe and the inside panel of a mid 70's fleetside truck bed.
Hopefully this time around it will come out a whole lot better and my welding and body skills have improved greatly. My level of patience has increased ten fold since 1981/82 when I built the truck the second time.
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