Our 55 Chevy 3100

[Whumbachumba]

This is our first adventure into restoring a classic. We decided to go with a truck and lucked out and found exactly what we were looking for at a good price. Yesterday we bought and got delivered our '55 Chevy 3100.

The previous owner has already put a decent amount of work into it and has some upgrades already read for it. He's welded in a new driver floor board, cab corners, and steps. We will still have to weld in the passenger side floor board and both new cowls, but thankfully the tough welds are already done.

Extra parts and upgrades already included are a new driver side door, disc brake conversion, 6 lug conversion (at least for the front, still looking for rears), door seals, brake booster, and various other bits and bobs.

We still have to figure out an engine to get, hopefully one that can pair up with the Saginaw 4 that was included with the truck. I need to get under the back and check the code on the rear axle too.

We plan on getting all the welding done and media blasting as we search for an engine and components to put in.










Passenger side door that has a bit of work left on the bottom. May just end up replacing this as the mirror mounts are completely different than the driver side.




Got this nice comprehensive manual as part of the deal.




Gauge cluster partially cleaned up. Odometer reads 27506, and I'm hoping that's original miles. The truck doesn't look like it's done 127,000 miles.


Sitting in it's new home, ready to be stripped apart and worked on.