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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 41 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 41 | I'm building a truck to be a daily driver with a primary goal to have it drive like a modern truck. Has anyone driven a truck with a chassis from Art Morrison, Roadstershop, TCI, etc.? How would your describe the ride and overall performance? | | | | | Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,518 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,518 | I have personally seen the shop truck at Art Morrison and talked to guy that daily drives it at the Griots show last year. Ask him a lot of questions, wish I would of taken his offer to go for a ride now but I am in the middle of a 53 restoration not a modified truck and wasn't interested. The performance will be second to none, but can you live with the lack of suspension travel and stiff ride. I remember my neighbor when he bought a brand new C5 corvette many years back with the z51 suspension, he hated it, too stiff and couldnt live with it, ended up selling it. I would be willing to bet that Art Morrison has played with much of the suspension and could put something together in the middle of the road that you could live with on a daily driver basis. Course we are all different and what is tolerable to one is abhorrent to another, and visa versa.
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1953 Chevrolet 3100261 cu inch, sm420, 3.55 rear, torque tube still,omaha orange, still 6 volt, RPO green glass, side carrier spare, all done In the DITY GalleryVideo of the 261 running1964 GMC 1000305 Big Block V6, sm420, the next cab off restoration
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 504 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 504 | I've never seen one in person but I'd love to have a chassis from the Roadster Shop with the REVO suspension. I read a detailed write up on it in Classic Trucks magazine about a year ago. It looks like a really sweet setup that was designed from scratch specifically for trucks. The intent it to keep the truck capable of functioning like a truck while having a nice performing modern suspension.
Down side is I just checked their website. $12,995 for a complete chassis. Looks real pretty though!!
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Larry
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | I'm building a truck to be a daily driver with a primary goal to have it drive like a modern truck. Has anyone driven a truck with a chassis from Art Morrison, Roadstershop, TCI, etc.? How would your describe the ride and overall performance? I'm not sure if you've seen this video Ken but it's Art Morrisons Farm Truck/test mule,although you're not personally riding in it you can judge from the drivers body he's not bouncing around due to a choppy/rough ride etc,the external shots will let you see how planted it seems to be on the road. Farm Truck. It's over 11 minutes long but quite enjoyable though.
1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,775 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,775 | Speedway has a bolt together chassis. It looks fairly durable. Pricing not bad when compared to an IFS swap. It's setup for a triangulated 4 link rear. From what I understand, You'll need to transfer the running board and body mounts over from the original chassis. If you don't like the sound of "bolt together," I'm sure it can all be welded easily in place also. Speedway
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| | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 270 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2005 Posts: 270 | I think the ICON thriftmaster http://www.iconthriftmaster.com uses the Morrison chassis. A nice video of the ride on their website. IF the price does not scare you off, it probably is a great chassis. | | |
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