Hello fellow Chevy truck fans!
I'm new to the stovebolt page but love it. I live in Northern Alberta, Canada and would like to pick up a project truck. I have a line on a couple of old farm trucks,(47-54?) and one says Chevrolet 1700 on the hood. I haven't seen that number mentioned in the description of any trucks on this site before. Is that a unique to Canada number? It looks like it would have been a 2ton or so. Also I've read that the cabs are the same size on all the different trucks but fender/hood size is different. In what ways are they different? Are they longer, wider and taller? It has 5 bars in the grille just like a 1/2 ton and doesn't look wider when I compare my digital pic to some trucks on this site. Anyway my goal is to build a drivable truck with little or no cost using any and everything that I can scrounge for free. The trucks are free so I thought I'd use that as starting point and see if I can keep it that way. I guess I'm up for a challenge.
