Hey, all sorry for the sporadic update. Anyways, here's what's been going on with my truck lately. First of all, a guy in Toppenish, Washington from the HAMB was gracious enough to give me the driver's side fender for my truck for free on the condition that I found a way to get it home. and a Greyhound ride later and here she was. By the way, while trying to mess with setting the fender on, it flaked some paint off the grille, as it turns out it's a chrome grille! here's what it looks like set on there for now (not going to mount it till I patch the cab panel.
Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 My friend has a 1966 Ford Mustang coupe I help him work on every once in a while and he dropped off the carb at a carb shop about 3 miles from my house that we didn't know about. It turns out that its behind a major store and very few people know it's there. The nearest classic auto junkyard we knew of was over 15 miles away. To our amazement there was a junkyard full of classics. We called the number on the sign and I asked for a headlight bucket, ashtray, and some other misc. parts (not expecting them to have all of what I needed because it seems anytime I ask a junkyard manager if they have 1954 Chevy Truck parts they say oh, we've got that coming out of our ears, and I always end up disappointed after the long drive to see 47-53 Chevy Trucks and parts laying around. Anyways, the guy says he will look around and let me know later in the day. About 3 hours later I get a call from the guy and he says he has the parts I'm looking for. Of course, I was a bit skeptical after my rather disappointing past junkyard experiences. We get there and no one is anywhere to be found. We call, we knock on any door we can find, nothing. We start up to car to leave and all of a sudden this jolly old man walks out and signals for us to come to him. We get out of the car and he says he has to do something but its just gonna take a minute and he'll be right out. After a minute, he walks out and we go over to where he supposedly has a 1954 Chevy. I see a 1952 Chevy Panel Truck but nothing else that looked even close. He had these rolls of barbwire stacked up and we walked around them to see the rear of a flatbed 50's truck. The first thing I looked for was a split-windshield. To my delight, I see a one piece windshield, I walk quickly to the front of the truck and see it is indeed a 1954 Chevrolet Truck one or two ton (not sure yet, anyone know)? I start naming off the parts I want off of it and he then says, heck, just buy the whole thing! So $300 later we parted ways and I had a new parts donor truck.
1954 Chevy Flatbed I have a few questions about the truck. I have read that the cab and front end sheet metal is the same as a 1/2 ton truck as long as it's not a cab-over-engine as it obviously is not. Is this true? Are the front fenders the same, etc? What all can I use off this truck that is the same as my 1954 1/2 ton. I'd really like to use as many parts as I can for my truck but I need to know what's the same and what isn't. If the cab is the same, can I cut and weld the cowl patch panel piece I from the parts truck to my truck?
Today my neighbor yelled at me repeatedly telling me off and saying to take the truck back to the junkyard. I just parked it in the front yard in the RV driveway and my mom parks in front of it every evening because there are two utility trailers and my truck I'd have to move to get the flatbed parts truck back there. I'm not sure what some different inexpensive ways are so that I can maneuver the truck to get it in the backyard with two flat tires on the passenger side rear (it's a dually). Any suggestions so I can please my neighbor?
PS. The pictures of the fender set on my truck is after I installed the headlight bucket it on it off the parts truck.
Thanks for everything!
