Hello Stovebolters! New guy here. Posted in the wanted ads a few days ago but now that I have found my truck I wanted to post a little intro.
My name is Jim and Im a caraholic. Without the gory details I found myself sans truck when I sold my newer S10 recently. I no longer needed a truck for daily use but I do need to tow my little autocross car locally and occasionally pick up something bigger than a breadbox at the home depot. I have had classic chevys before (a 64, 65 and a 67) and wanted another. I was hoping to go older than my previous forays and hoping to get something with a modern drivetrain to make it usable.
Tonight I made the deal on a 49 with a 350 transplant, auto trans, power steering and disk brakes and 3.08 rear. Just about perfect. She is something of a 50 footer right now. The body is solid but the paintjob was done poorly and there are some tweaks I would like to do to the body before I respray her. But she is so very cool and I love her already.
And now the obligitory photos.
one two The reason we ask for a LINK to a picture (rather than posting the image itself):
1) it affects our bandwidth (which is costly)
2) it makes the page download slower (which really affects people on dial-up, and we've got a lot of them)
3) some European users have to "pay by the byte" (and we don't want to do that to them ... especially after they've seen the image once already!)
And a side benefit -- you can post a link to as big a picture as you like and it won't affect the rest of the posts in that thread!
Thanks and welcome to the Stovebolt Collective!
Peg
