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| | | | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 438 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 438 | What a thing of beauty! Died and gone to heaven--driving that gorgeous '53 of course! | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 | | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 | | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 86 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 86 | LOOKS GREAT................
47.5 Loadmaster 5 window
48 Chevy 3600
69 GTO convertible
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 194 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 194 | Fantastic job!!!!!!
You should be proud.
Enjoy | | | | | Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 583 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 583 | Wonderful Pics! Gives me the incentive to go out and work on my truck tomorrow. Thanx! | | | | | Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 793 Bondo Artiste | | Bondo Artiste Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 793 | Wow!! What a nice looking Chevy!!! I really like your bed side wood stakes. Do you need a test driver to make sure it will run and drive ok? If so, just ship that bad boy up here to Va and I will make sure everything is ok to use. I want to make sure you are safe  P.S There is only one thing wrong with this your truck, it is not a GMC!!!!!! 
~ Phillip
1949 GMC Suburban - 10 year project
1952 Pontiac Chieftain Convertible straight 8 hydramatic
1945 GMC half ton truck - Driver- Sold 9-15-25
1946 Chevy COE - SOLD 1-5-26 BUH BYE CHEVY!
1959 GMC Half ton long bed NAPCO
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 687 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 687 | New Old 53: Beautiful you have got to be proud. OK????? What is the name of your color? My 59 is going to be similiar 96 Harley Green or 2000 TransAM Teal looks very close to that. popcorn The Truth is Out There (Wondering minds would like to Know) | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 | Believe it or not it is call "British Racing Car Green" Every time I say that I think of Tim the Tool Man Taylor yelling at his wife for buying a British car. "Yeah.... But its BRITISH!!!" | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | Beautiful job. You didn't varnish the bed wood yet? It would last the longest without cracking if you sealed all 6 edges before installation. Now that it is all test fitted, you might still want to do that? 
54 3100 with 235
62 flatbed dump C60 with 261
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 | Yeah, The bed wood is coming out. I thought that I should attempt to install it to get the right fit and to drill nec. holes before finishing the bed completley. Im glad I did too, because there was alot of putting down and taking up and resetting bolts and what not involved. I may have scratched a freshly varnished board had I not. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,184 Red dot, center of chest ... | | Red dot, center of chest ... Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,184 | Man, that's finer than frog hair! Great job! You should be very proud of yourself for a job well done! Now comes the fun. Drivin' it and watchin' all the people stare as you go by. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 5 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 5 | Wow very nice,like the colors,and excelent attention to the details. Good job you should be very proud of it.
DAVE S.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 | Thanks for the compliments | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 | New Old 53,
Beautiful job. Congratulations.
How long did it take you?
Tim | | | | | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 185 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 185 | | | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,897 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,897 | I thought that color looked familiar,, The 53 I had ,,,,12 years ago was that color, built by someone else but not NEARLY AS NICE AS YOUR TRUCK!! Awesome job 
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| | | | | Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 285 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 285 | What a "Head Turner"!! You should be very proud of a job well done! Congradulations.  | | | | | Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 20 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 20 | Good job New Old 53! Good pics of a great truck. It takes a lot of work and $$ to get one looking that nice. You are going to have a good time driving around collecting thumbs ups.-- Pete
Doug Peterson
53 Chevy Pickup
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 30 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 30 | Hey, New Old 53- Absolutely great, beautiful truck. Are those late wheels with original caps? If so how did you fit them? | | | | | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 117 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 117 | Hey,,you know what,,,They're worth all the time,and money you put in to it,,But then again i'm getting jealous,,Jealous that my 50 looks nothing that good,,Good Job!!!!! | | | | | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 117 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 117 | Hey,,you know what,,,They're worth all the time,and money you put in to it,,But then again i'm getting jealous,,Jealous that my 50 looks nothing that good,,Good Job!!!!! | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 | TcLedermen, the truck took me just over a year. It was what they call a Rolling Restoration. I did most of the body work(which wasnt too bad because I had a good truck to start out with) and my old father in law helped with the engine and drive line. We bought a rebuilt 1954 Chev 1/2 ton 235.
JJ, The wheels are in fact newer model wheels. The hub caps do not fit onto them like the originals do so I fabricated some hub cap clips that are longer than the originals and screwed them into the wheels. It took alot of experimenting but I finally got it. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,254 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,254 | Nice job.
Your air filter looks like an oil bath with a paper filter. Is that the case? If so, how did you do it and what filter are you using?
I have an extra oil bath filter and would like to do that.
TIA
Dennis
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 | What a beautiful truck. That first picture looks like a a model truck or a painting of the ideal truck.
I am curious, is the ID plate original ? | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 | Thanks, Old Blue Truck, That is an oil bath air filter but is in original condition. What I think you see is the inside of the filter that I painted gray to match the engine color. Trucker nix, The ID plate is a repro. Being this is my first time ever to restore a vehicle I made some mistakes. The original ID plate was in almost as good condition but I got oven cleaner on it when I was removing the BLUE latex house paint from off the ENTIRE interior and it removed alot of the paint off the ID plate. [img] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid101/p842d3582a2885b20d17adfc5bf9e0952/f9dc6885.jpg[/img] | | | | | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 213 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2003 Posts: 213 | Envy, admiration, and hope all in one posting. Excellent work!!! You shared the exterior color, but what color and product did you use on the inside? It also looks awesome.
Thanks for sharing and making me wish it weren't 10 below outside. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 | WOW! I love the color New Old '53.
You did a wonderful job!
What a nice ride.
-W | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 14 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: May 2001 Posts: 14 | That is one great looking truck. I'm working on a 53 myself and I doubt it will ever look that good. Good Job!!
Melvin | | | | | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,271 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,271 | Absolutely SWEET!!!
~~ Alan Horvath 1954 Chevy PickupSinging his praises in thePassing Lane | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 | Jake53,
The interior is finished in the Champagne color interior paint from chevy duty. There were sections in my truck that still had the original int. paint and the chevy duty paint is almost identical. | | |
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