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I made it to the big car show with my truck today, and connected with Homer52 and some other bolter's that were there.

Pics of some nice trucks and other stuff, starting with my completed (visually anyway) 1951 3100.

It was great seeing you today, it was a surprise, I didn't know you were that near completion. Dave

And the cream of the crop IMO, a beautiful unrestored 1948 3100 with a total mileage of 48,000. Second owner Mark is the son of the original owner. Check out the nicely preserved paint on this truck (and the original pinstriping.) It also sported a Carter W1 carb, and an ingenious solution for horn mounting to install an oil filter. This truck also has never had a heater. Was originally a California truck (has a CHP inspection sticker on the windshield) which probably explains the heaterless thing.

[on edit] Per carbking in this post that Carter W1 would be original to the truck. I learned something new today.

Also a nicely done 1972 1/2 ton and a professionally done 1954 3100.

Good to see you too, Dave. Hopefully I can get down to see your newest project sometime. I have an invite to go fishing out of Homer this week, but not sure I'm going.

I dig the double bumper on the 48.

Great pictures and congratulations on getting your ‘51 “visually complete”! A long road and a great job!

Kevin - A BIG Congrats on getting your truck to the show as planned. It looks great and even the pic from afar shows the incredible time and effort you put into the truck to get it "visually complete"! Looking forward to seeing and hearing more on the truck. Glad you got to share the first reveal with fellow 'Bolters and thanks for sharing the pics of the show.

Nice pics, Kevin. I don't understand the advantage of modifying V8 heads into a single head for the inline 6.

Better breathing, especially if you updated the cam. One port for each valve.

I did too. In fact so much I tried to get him to sell me one of them. Shipping a bumper to get chromed would be way expensive. I settled for powder coating on mine.

Leo, I really don’t understand a lot of things that hotrodders do either. Notice that it has 3 carbs and headers in a crossflow configuration. Slightly better breathing than a stock head, but welding the two halves together would be real difficult to do. I’m guessing it’s mainly for the wow factor when someone looks under the hood.

I like your door logos, Kevin. Very cool. Most people go for the shiny hotrod look, but a 'working truck' is what I'm also going for.
The 'Hybrid Six' doen't say anything about HP numbers, which disappoints me. All that work and no bragging rights.
I enjoy seeing other areas show car offerings.
Thanks for the pics.

Thanks. Here's a couple better pics of the door logos taken at home right after I put them on.

My wife was the photographer of my truck at the show, and it wasn't the best composition - way too much foreground that I cropped out. I think our youngest daughter inherited her photography "talent."

[on edit] The last pic is the model for them. An ARC Bridge Engineer with his pickup from 1952.

The old photo shows the emblems higher up on the door. Probably wasn't standardized though. They ended up where people put them.

Was 2651 your truck's original number?

No I made that number up. I have two original ARC truck photos, one (that I posted #2631) earlier year model, and another a later year model. I picked a number between the two. I was going to use 2696 as being closer to the middle of the two, but my wife suggested the 51, because it's a 1951 truck. I tried tracking down the original number, but a previous owner didn't know, and the records are probably lost to history.
Yeah, I just eyeballed where to put mine, and it's a touch larger as well. Who except Eagle Eye Otto is going to know?

Hahha! Good idea on #51

Are those vinyl stickers?

Yes

Wow Kevin! I didnt realize that your project is a driver already. Looks great and congratualtions on your first show!
Paul

Did you do anything to improve your hood fit from when you were struggling with it? It looks great in the show pictures.

I did get the hood to fit a bit better. It doesn’t rub anywhere and closes and opens correctly. I did have a little issue with the safety hook but got that fixed by bending the finger tab a bit.
Like the paint job it’s a 25 footer.

That’s fantastic. Looks great!

Good looking truck!

Just checked in for once, great to see you've been out enjoying your truck!