If this is the wrong forum, please move it.... new and not sure where to put this.
I used to drive 1948 Chev 3100 and learned to drive a manuals, etc. with it a long time ago. I was about 10 yrs old when I started driving it and drove it up to about 18 yrs old. . I have always wanted to get another one. Finally found one I decided to take on , a 1949 Chev 3600 / 5800. It's going to require a lof ot work.
But, the guy who had it somewhere along the line obviously towed trailers or something he needed to extend the mirror out further so he could see around it.
So, he home made a frame to hold a mirror, just bar material that was bent and screwed into the side of the truck. Then he screwed in a car mirror into that, to have a mirror out there. Would have been difficult to see much. It's pretty roughly made.
The ironic part is, I have a 1954 Chevy 150 , which I needed to replace one of the side mirrors. The mirror he used as a mirror for that truck , is a 1954 car mirror, and in very good shape. Talk about funny though ... this car mirror on top of a home made bracket on the side (I'll get a pic and post it), and being the one I needed.
I saw it and just laughed, the irony of it.... the exact mirror I needed, but not for the truck.
There were other redneck fixes done.... some creative bars welded on the back bumper , and a tail light ... that's not off a 1949 truck .... but looks like a very old trailer tail light mounted onto one of those bars. Another is, on the glove box to work as the the latch ... obviously the latch quit working, so they drilled a hole and made a little flat metal tab like piece, they rotated up to open the glove box and down to hold the door of the glove box closed. It works fairly well ... I may keep that for the creativeness of it... just because. It's like some I remember in the past ... where a string was hanging in a cab and was there to open a vent because the cable broke. I remember us doing creative fixes at times, on farm equipment, trailers, or other things because we needed it to work, and work now so we could get some work done.
Interested in what other redneck fixes people have found ... that were creative, funny, or interesting that they found on their trucks (if any).
Last edited by Jimks; 05/20/2018 4:49 AM.
