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Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
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| | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 1,904 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2001 Posts: 1,904 | Summer is leaving and my thoughts always go to this boat. My Dad bought this plywood Sande Ace in 1959 when I was 15. My friends were really jealous. It's in near perfect condition today. I took the now Mrs Wally for a ride when we were 16. The 2nd pic shows us in 2024 on Washington's lower Hood Canal. I have 7 of those white Mercs to make sure I always have one running. Thanks for putting up with my nostalgia. www.sandeace.com/drone/Drone4Cropped.jpgwww.sandeace.com/drone/SmoothCruisin1000.png
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1948 3/4-Ton 5-Window Flatbed Chevrolet 34 Years. Now with a '61 261, 848 head, Rochester Monojet carb, SM420 4-speed, 4.10 rear, dual reservoir MC, Bendix up front, 235/85R16 tires, 12-volt w/alternator, electric wipers and a modern radio in the glove box.
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 5,909 Gearhead, Stovebolt Tech and Parts Tracker, Mod for Swap Meet and GTT | | Gearhead, Stovebolt Tech and Parts Tracker, Mod for Swap Meet and GTT Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 5,909 | Definitely a "Classic" Wally!  Love the pics and thanks for sharing. 
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100Follow this story in the DITY Gallery"My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine"1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,810 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,810 | "Kiekhafer Mercury"- - - - - -the hotrods of outboards in the 1950s and 60s. After he won just about every trophy on the water, Carl Kiekhafer finally ran his company bankrupt racing a team of Chrysler 300s at Daytona and elsewhere on the AAA racing circuit before NASCAR, back when all the other round track guys were running Fords, Chevvies, Pontiacs, and Oldsmobiles. He supposedly said "You can make a small fortune racing- - - -but you gotta start with a BIG fortune!"
Jerry
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Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,708 back yard wrench turner | | back yard wrench turner Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,708 | That's awesome to have such a beautiful boat and a part of your growing up history.
Wayne1938 1-Ton Farm TruckStovebolt Gallery Forums1989 Silverado 1996 Mustang GT convertible When I die, I hope she doesn't sell everything for what I told her I paid for it! | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 1,904 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2001 Posts: 1,904 | The pictures were frames from a drone video that our neighbor made. Has anyone made a drone video for their truck?
1948 3/4-Ton 5-Window Flatbed Chevrolet 34 Years. Now with a '61 261, 848 head, Rochester Monojet carb, SM420 4-speed, 4.10 rear, dual reservoir MC, Bendix up front, 235/85R16 tires, 12-volt w/alternator, electric wipers and a modern radio in the glove box.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2021 Posts: 214 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2021 Posts: 214 | Very cool classic. I’ve always fancied the 50s-60s runabouts.
Was it kinda scary in the hood canal with something that was easily dwarfed by some of the full sized vessels? I’ve done a bit of crabbing in a 12ft aluminum 10hp while the navy was sailing by. Their wake would almost sink us.
Chip
'Rusto-Mod'
'51 Chevy 3600 5 window | C4 Corvette front/rear suspension & drivetrain | everything else looks old and stock
'92 GMC Sonoma GT #15 of 806
'91 GMC Sonoma GT Extended cab 1 of 1
Trucks, Trucks.....and more Trucks | | | | | Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,072 Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums | | Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,072 | How about a nuke sub surfacing under you. 😳
I’ve had a smallish cruise ship cut across my bow in Prince William Sound. Fortunately my boat is 21 ft, but we still needed to drastically cut our speed.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truckFollow this saga in Project JournalPhotos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together. | | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 5,723 24601 | | 24601 Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 5,723 | That is so cool, Wally! I am a wooden boat fan. When I was a kid, my parents owned a marina on a big lake in Quebec. We had a reputation for our wooden boat restorations (mostly Chris-Craft dual cockpit pre-war boats and Peterborough cedar boats). As a Naval Academy midshipman, I raced a wooden off-shore racing sloop (The former "Recluta" of Southern Atlantic racing fame). I still have a plan to build a boat...
I have been off shore (blue water) in wooden boats, metal boats and fibre glass boats since I was 12 (1st trip was in a wood-hulled sloop from Newburyport, Mass to Downeast Maine). NOTHING beats a wood boat!
Anyway, cool story and cool pics. More??
Kevin -- Did a cruise on a nuclear sub. But ... during the Newport-Burmuda '86 race we had a whale (I have no idea what kind of whale) cruise along side us for a bit and then about an hour later do the whole rising up out of the water and crashing down on its side in front of us thing. THAT was cool.
~ John A kid raised on Hotwheels, Matchbox and Tonka cannot be reasonably expected to own only one vehicle as an adult. 1949 Chevrolet 3804In the Legacy Gallery | In the Gallery Forum1973 IH 1310 Dump1963 Kaiser M38A12001 International/AmTran RE3000 "Skoolie"2014 Ford E-350 4x4 (Quigley) | | |
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