Our 1956 3100 started off as a father-son project in 1996 (I think). My son was 13 at the time and this was to be his High School driver. He was to to do most of the work with me helping along the way. As time went by he got busy with other things (school and girls) and couldn't find time to work on the truck, so it was put in storage for 14 years as a running chassis with the sheet metal all in primer. I had always told him I'd work with him, BUT I wasn't building it for him all by myself, I had my own projects!
While at a family diner with my now grown kids and their spouses my wife ask the son when he was going to take the truck and start working on it...he said he didn't have time and the wife responded back that I would finish it and she would drive it! So after all that time I was finishing the truck that I never wanted to do "all by myself". It took me about 5 years to get it all done. Here's the before and after pictures.
Credit for the finished picture goes to John Milliman...Thanks John, that's my favorite picture of the truck!
Mike B
