Hey Gang,
Greetings from just North of H-Town! After finishing up a '51 3100 for a friend of mine about a year ago, I finally bought a '49 for myself to tinker with. The '49 is all original except for a later, and tired, 235 Thriftmaster in place of the 216. It smells like old cows and it's so freakin' cool!!! The thing about this truck which is unique is there are only 2 very tiny pinholes on one running board and a few on the tail gate. That's it!!! I already knocked out the two dents in the fenders, and the rest of the sheetmetal is nearly perfect. I know, rare for this type of truck so I'm pretty excited about not having to do the extent of repair I did on the 51' (and all that darn blocking on the fenders....yeesh!)
My plan is a budget restoration (not a show truck, more of a driver) with a V8 conversion that appears factory. I'll update this thread with pictures as I go and describe in detail what I do and maybe it'll help others out. I'm pretty excited about jumping into it.
The '51 I did features a Mustang II, 10 bolt rear on Mopar springs, 56 Chevy car gastank under the bed with fender fill neck, a 5.3 Vortec from an 06' Tahoe with a 4L60E, and a whole host of other mods. 100% factory fuel injection, A/C, AM/FM/Ipod, custom console and bucket seats. Bed side wood is my design too with the spare mounted in the back.
Hmmm, I guess I'll have to do some sort of photobucket thing to add pics. I'll try and get that up here shortly.
Cheers
Dave
