LOL, Rodfather, sorry, I forgot what a tough crowd this is.
Listen guys, there were a ZILLION of these trucks made. He is keeping one more on the road, so what if it has a different grille.
I repect the hell out of you guys wanting to keep it original, but think of it this way, one more "rodded" means yours is all the more rare.
Sure most anyone will know that the one piece glass is a 54 but putting a 54 cab on the early truck is an age long custom mod so it is not much thought of as a "non-48".
Rodfather, I first drove my 48 (it really is a 48) to Rod runs back in the late seventies. I was TURNED AWAY from a NUMBER of them, and harrassed when I was there at a few! I am not kidding, I was turned away, even though I had the registration saying it was a 48! They would say it was "doctored". Most people at the time didn't even know these trucks were built in 47-48 so in their mind every one of them was a post-48. You can not believe the crap I put up with. Here I had this chopped top, hot inline six powered HOT ROD getting bitched at and sitting next to me would be a fiberglass car with hardly a part on it made prior to 1949 and he was just fine. PIZZZED me off.
That is all different now, the AD is common at these shows.
Build it anyway you want and have fun.
Brian
