1955 Cameo

[azsnow]

Starting a build thread for my 1955 Cameo. I figured I might as well document it!


By azsnow at 2012-01-04

[azsnow]

Here are the pics of the progress so far. The truck has a mildly built 350 and a TH700R4 transmission.


By azsnow at 2012-01-04


By azsnow at 2012-01-04


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By azsnow at 2012-01-04


By azsnow at 2012-01-04

[Kim57]

Nice. Keep the pics coming.
Kim

[Red Foreman]

Love the Cameo! wish I was into trucks 20 years ago when they were affordable.

[reaper71]

Should be a cool truck i love the cameo's...

Mark...

[azsnow]

Originally Posted by Red Foreman

Love the Cameo! wish I was into trucks 20 years ago when they were affordable.

A little history about how I found this thing. I saw my first Cameo 20 years ago and fell in love! Fast forward to a couple of years ago, I answered an ad on CL for a 57 SB frame in N. Phoenix, for $50.

I needed a frame for a '57 I was building, so went to buy it. When I got there, the guy showed me a longbed 59 that he had restored from the ground up...cool, but it was a 59 and a long bed, I wasn't that impressed. So he takes me around back to where the frame was, and I started to look it over, then I spotted something in the corner of his yard, a little red bowtie.

I knew right away it was the tailgate of a Cameo. I asked him, and he took me over to check it out. He had 2 of them! Both 55s, and they had been sitting for 25 years or so. We struck up a deal, and I towed it away for $6500 leaving the frame and putting my 57 up for sale when I got home.

So for the next couple of years, I pissed around with it, building the motor from parts aquired from CL, grabbed the TH700r4 out of a van my mom had sitting around, and then started buying parts. I just ordered a ton of crap, so updates should be many and soon!

[reaper71]

Damit man! it's crazy how much truck's are nowadays!!! cool history on her though...

Mark

[azsnow]

Just installed a Lokar Eliminator gas pedal setup. If your motor and trans are already in the truck, I DO NOT recommend this set up! It is a biatch to install with the running gear already in the truck. Pics to come.

[Maximus]

hey azsnow, love the Cameo! I bought the original pile of parts that is now my truck 10 years ago when I was in highschool. I wish I knew what I was getting into because I would have loved to save for a few years and tried to get my hands on a Cameo. I did recently convert my cab to a deluxe trim big-window cab so maybe in another 10 years I can find and restore a cameo bed and have a knock-off

Anyways, it looks like you have a VERY strait unmolested truck there! I love the West Coast!

Its a good idea to start your build now, I have found it useful as a motivation tool to re-read things I have done and get me back into wanting to work on the truck after a few quiet months... that and when someone asks me how much the truck cost me when its done, ill just say "100,000 man hours, here's a link to prove it" haha..

[Dinos63]

Great start for a cool truck!

[blue 72 gmc 4x4]

Any updates?