Thought I would post progress on my project and a little of my history with it.
It started like many poor decisions by looking on the Faceplace marketplace instead of working in the shop, which I still catch myself doing. About 2 1/2 years ago, I found a 1953 3100 that was partially apart. It “looked clean” and was a very reasonable price. I was the second of many interested and got first crack at it.
Went to look. Clean shop, believable “Grandpa's truck” story and was about to crawl underneath when he said the first guy was almost there. I made a decision on the spot to buy it and loaded it up and took it home. Wife was not happy! It stayed in the trailer so I could keep it out of sight from the wife.
I found Stovebolt and started to plan what to do with it.
Later that fall/winter I had an opportunity to purchase a 1964 Chevy II for the wife. It was in Northern California and the friend that alerted me to the deal wanted to buy the '53. So I hooked the trailer up and drove 1,100 miles round trip to drop off the truck and pick up the Chevy II.
Some months later, I got a call from same friend and he was not happy with what was hiding under the paint so to speak. I kicked myself for not crawling under the truck those many months prior and finding it before I bought it initially.
Still with me?
Long story longer. Made another round trip (after the snow melted) and bought the truck back and haggled for a cab from my brother-in-law to replace the very poor bodywork done by PO. Also worth mentioning: It has a '54 front end fenders forward on the '53. So probably a bad wreck at some point.
Then the planning started over, couple pics to start.
