We are still asking: What did you get done on your Bolt today ????
The question, initially posted May 23, 2005, was:
"Whatcha do on your Bolt this weekend?"
After 51,906,997 views, 7378 replies over 185 pages, this thread in General Truck Talk is a happening! And it's not just weekends anymore.
We started this "idea" a long time ago and it was fun. A lot of those old threads are gone but this much was saved in the News page. You might be a Stovebolt Lover if:
In2deep - you have a two or three car garage with one truck in it. Whole or in pieces. Popcorn - you get up at 4 a.m. to work on "the truck" because its more important than sleep. Fahr - you excitedly call your wife to tell her you found the perfect (insert missing or broken truck part)... and she's as excited as you are about it Tony M - your wife checks the history feature on your computer and finds nothing but pictures of naked .. trucks Fatfenders - your eyes glaze over when someone talks about any truck newer than 1974. 46 Burb - you spend quality time with your wife on the living room couch with a laptop posting on a Stovebolt forum. Patrick66 - you have parts from the last seventeen trucks you've owned, and can identify every one of them! Sublime - you heat bake your intake manifold in the kitchen oven and stink your house out for hours Mugsy - the first thing you do in the morning (besides make a cup of coffee) is turn the computer on and go to The Stovebolt Page.
I put this post in this section so people who don't have access to the Greasy Spoon can still see it.
Have a Happy Valentine's Day, ye old Stovebolters.
Peg
Last edited by Peggy M; Sun Feb 09 2020 03:38 PM.
The first five days after the weekend are the hardest.
Grease Monkey, Moderator General Truck Talk & Greasy Spoon
You reupholster truck seats in your dining room.
Body work hub caps to get that just right look.
Unfortunately Peggy, the majority of those members are no longer active.☹️
Martin '62 Chevy C-10 Stepside Shortbed (Restomod in progress) '47 Chevy 3100 5 Window (long term project) ‘65 Chevy Biscayne 4dr 230 I-6 one owner (I’m #2) “Emily” ‘39 Dodge Businessmans Coupe “Clarence”
"I fought the law and the law won" now I are a retired one! Support those brave men/women who stand the "Thin Blue Line"! Hug a cop! USAF 1965-1969 Weather Observation Tech (I got paid to look at the clouds)
Gord Wife and I did that a few years ago at the KC Reunion. Remembered Sunday on the way home, that the day before was our 19 anniversary. Yes, we were both guilty of forgetting it. 9-9-95 was the day we got married under a full moon.
Don
Of all the things I've lost in my life, I miss my mind the most!
Well, your “idea” has been a powerful opportunity for me to learn and find parts, or people that had them, for an old Chevy COE restoration. I’m 46 now but started this journey 13 years ago and I’m nearly done! I couldn’t have done it without your site and the people that are part of. So, thank you - it was a great “idea”!
Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums
You take a 12,500 mile road trip to collect parts for your Stovebolt project.
I've done a few other things mentioned as well.
Kevin Newest Project - 51 Chevy 3100 work truck. Photos [flickr.com] #2 - '29 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. First car '29 Ford Special Coupe Busting rust since the mid-60's
I think what the members said above is still spot-on, at least for me anyway. Of course, I am a little late to the party, not the thread, just the Stovebolt party in general. I wish I had known about this site years ago. If I had, I may have done a little better job of preserving what I have.
Martin, I can relate to re-upholstering seats in the house. Not for a Stovebolt though, it was for a 1962 VW Beetle and it was in the Living Room. I still have a picture of my son standing in the engine compartment of the VW when I was doing the restoration. He was two then, he is thirty-five now.
So Peggy here is one, “You might be a Stovebolt Lover if – you offer to take your spouse for a Valentine’s Day get away and she says why don’t we go on a road trip to get parts for the truck.” Oh yeah, we have been married for almost forty-three years.
1954 3100 w/Hydra-Matic
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." and "To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge." - Confucius
You might be a Stovebolt Lover if: You take the back road to dinner with your Wife just so you can pass that "I'm gonna fix it someday" 49 3100 truck.
Craig
Come, Bleed or Blister something has got to give!!! 59' Apache 31, 327 V8 (0.030 over), Muncie M20 4 Speed, GM 10 Bolt Rear... long term project (30 years and counting)
Almost sold the pickup a year ago and when the family learned I was planning on selling it they dis-owned me. Lucky for me the buyer decided on a car. After we hung up the phone I told the family the pickup is NOT FOR SALE. Now I get to eat good food again..........and the truck will go to my daughter and my nephew mechanic. He works on it, she drives it.
....Stovebolt Love is when you rather ramble through a junk yard than go to the mall with your wife! I think I won her over to my side.
Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums
You might be a Stovebolt lover: If you drag a prized part find from 1/4 mile off the road thru 6 inch deep mud.
I think my feet weighed 10 lb each from the mud buildup. But I got it!!
Kevin Newest Project - 51 Chevy 3100 work truck. Photos [flickr.com] #2 - '29 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. First car '29 Ford Special Coupe Busting rust since the mid-60's
Wow John...my brothers first car was a 59 VW that he bought from my uncle for $75.00. It wasn’t mine, but I was so excited I spent all day waxing the chalky paint until it actually shined. He would take all the neighborhood kids for a ride and we would have to rock back in forth in unison to get up some of the hills where we lived. Those were good times.
But no about sticking with the VW’s. I like the Stovebolt’s much better.
1954 3100 w/Hydra-Matic
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." and "To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge." - Confucius
I've dropped in at Stovebolters on the west coast, the east coast, the deep south, the mid west and even visited one in Germany. Met bolters in 5 different countries and all these interactions were great.
My wife Karen thinks the truck is the other women in my life and gets what ever she needs Leo you would be welcome downunder same to everybody else I got a birthday invite to a fellow bolter downunder COE500 which I’m looking forward to big 60 I actually went to high school with him and met 40 years later at a truck show so in for good weekend
Hey folks I need some help here. My old pal is getting restored for the second time. However the passenger side running board is slightly shorter. The frame is perfect everything lines up. The fellow that did the body work had three older 3100's 47, 51, & 53. did he mix them up?
Last edited by Doc.Hall; Sun Feb 23 2020 09:54 PM.
Currently making 1954 3100 better than new and Genetics
But I got it!!
