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| | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 17 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 17 | Well, it's official--I am now a real Stovebolter! Just picked up my new baby on Saturday. I am the third owner of a 1959 3/4-ton Apache Fleetside. It's a cool truck and I'm looking forward to learning all about it with the help of my fellow Stovebolters! Got some pics here: http://www.pbase.com/ninerjoe/59_apache Enjoy! | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 52 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 52 | Welcome aboard ninerjoe and congradulations on you first purchase. That 59er is sure a beaute and looks like new truck and should be fun. Ya stick around this site, you sure will learn something, one way or another.  Jamo | | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 198 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 198 | That's a fantastic looking truck.. love the 58-59 fleetsides... BTW I took a close look at the engine shot near the end... looks like your new truck has already marked it's territory...or was the black stain on the concrete already there...
Attitude - The difference between an adventure and an ordeal!
Deja Moo - The feeling you've heard this bull**** before!
'63 Chev Fleetside Longbox 'Rusto-rod' 'Big Red'
'69 or'70 or ? Mantaray DuneBuggy
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 42 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 42 | Wow, that looks like a great truck! I love the intake setup. I am also a new owner, and we're just about in the same boat: I finally picked up my "new" Fleetside 3200 late last week. I am going to have to move a workbench to fit it comfortably in my garage A few token pix are at: http://www.oz.net/~mrhoten/cars/truck/ What cool things have you learned so far? On mine, based on casting numbers and the carb tag, I have what looks like the original 283, complete with exhaust manifolds, but the intake manifold and the Rochester 2G carb may be from a passenger car with a 265. (I'm just going on the information on the web, which is of varying quality; I should probably pick up a SBC ID numbers book.) No clue about the trans or rear end, they're too gunked up to see anything! | | | | | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,271 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,271 | Congratulations, Joe! That sure is a clean truck -- I'll bet you're just grinning from ear to ear!
I got my 54 two years ago, but I still feel like I *just* got it ... driving it around has been the best thing!
~~ Alan Horvath 1954 Chevy PickupSinging his praises in thePassing Lane | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 | great lookin machine,welcome aboard. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 66 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 66 | Not getting much sleep are you Joe ?? keep jumping up looking out the window to get one more look at her huh?  Great looking truck, and I like those colors. Enjoy 
Joe - (Buckeye Bowtie)
"Remember it takes about 2850 bolts to built a Chevy Truck and only 1 NUT to scatter them all over the highway"
1950 3100
1971 C-10
1939 Buick Century
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | nice truck, looks like she is ready to roll
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 | Two very nice 59's and both with the custom bed trim being talked about last week.
Bruce
Old Toy: Ol' Betsy stock 59 Apache SB Stepside (Gone but not Forgotten)
New Toy: 1962 Impala SS Coupe
The Driver: 1990 Toyota truck
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | yes indeed, fleetsides rule! glad to see 2 more beauties in the virtual garage! Bill | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 | Whoa Red, stepsides are cool too..
Where is that pic of yours located?
Bruce
Old Toy: Ol' Betsy stock 59 Apache SB Stepside (Gone but not Forgotten)
New Toy: 1962 Impala SS Coupe
The Driver: 1990 Toyota truck
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 | Wow! nice truck NinerJoe!
Welcome to the 'Bolt.
Be sure to poke around in the Tech Tips area - linked up top... and check out the Links area for parts and information.
-W | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 734 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 734 | Wooooow! Man, I love a '59 Fleet! Great truck and with an Offy dual and split exhaust and Wayne cover, oh man am I jealous!
-David | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | Bruce - steps are fine, but fleets haul full size loads! see the \'workin man\'s truck\' here - not as purdy as them other 2, but gots the brass rad tank! Bill | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 | Bill,
Don't see anything wrong with your 58. Looks good to me. Sure doesn't look like a work truck anymore though. Is it retired like my stepside which is just a toy now?
Bruce
Old Toy: Ol' Betsy stock 59 Apache SB Stepside (Gone but not Forgotten)
New Toy: 1962 Impala SS Coupe
The Driver: 1990 Toyota truck
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 89 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 89 | Niner Joe,
Your 59 sure looks great!! I'm sure you will enjoy riding arond and getting the "tumbs up".
Great color !!
cvet
1946 Chevy | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | Bruce - those pics were all when red was fresh outta the 'wash house' about 6 years ago! he and the frankentruck earn their keep every day - picking apples in the fall, and haulin\'em to the mill and deliverin juice all year round, + truckin compost, and sawdust, and material, and equipment any time required, sun or rain or snow, as well as haulin me and the babytrkr around the island and out to dinner ocassionally!! no show trucks in my garage till I win the lottery. I'll hafta get some current pics of the bed and under the hood! gets washed twice a year wether it needs it or not Bill | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 | Bill, the truck looks to good to be a workaholic but imagine after 6 years you would be right. I am digitally challenged and see you don't permit emails but if you'd like a pic or two or ten of my old retiree shoot me an email.
Bruce
Bruce
Old Toy: Ol' Betsy stock 59 Apache SB Stepside (Gone but not Forgotten)
New Toy: 1962 Impala SS Coupe
The Driver: 1990 Toyota truck
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,095 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,095 | sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!!! ron
Ron, The Computer Greek I love therefore I am.1954 3100 Chevy truckIn the Gallery 2017 Buick Encore See more pix1960 MGA Roadster Sold 7/18/2017
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