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| | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 8 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 8 | I guess an into would be nice, so here goes… Can’t believe I never stumbled onto this site before. I guess I spend more time looking up parts and info on my ’53 Hudson than my ‘ol truck. I’ve had it 20 years now. All my kids grew up riding in it. It was my daily driver for the first 5-6 years. Drove it from San Diego to Wisconsin when we moved in 1990. (Camper shell in back, wife, two babies and pulling a trailer with everything we owned it) Moved the family (now 4 kids) back to San Diego in 1997. I flew back to Wisconsin just to get it and drove it out to SD (by myself this time). Drove it to Missouri in 2003 when we moved again, so I know it well. It’s a 1950 5 window, 3100 short bed. Has a 1965 Buick 300 V8, TH350, Nova rear, AMC Pacer front clip, PS, PDB, Cruise, Power windows, tilt wheel, AM/FM/CD w/amps and Subwoofer. It’s off line now for the first time in years due to needing to overhaul the AMC suspension. Man, AMC parts are a b**ch to find! Looks like a cool site, I’ll have to do some nosin’ around and see what’s here. Anywho, some pix if they work… How it was ... How it is ... is ... more another and this one. Later The reason we ask for a LINK to a picture (rather than posting the image itself):
1) it affects our bandwidth (which is costly)
2) it makes the page download slower (which really affects people on dial-up, and we've got a lot of them)
3) some European users have to "pay by the byte" (and we don't want to do that to them ... especially after they've seen the image once already!)
And a side benefit -- you can post a link to as big a picture as you like and it won't affect the rest of the posts in that thread!
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Peg
Later...
1950 Chevy 3100
1953 Hudson Hornet
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,401 Former Workshop Owner | | Former Workshop Owner Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,401 | Nice looking truck. Just curious why the AMC Pacer front clip?
~ J Lucas 2006 GMC Envoy 4.2 I6 2023 Ram 2500/Cumins 6.7 I6 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee (Wife’s) 2002 Silverado 2500 Gas 6.0 1941 Chevy 1/2-Ton 1942 Chevy 1.5-Ton SWBIn the Gallery My Flicker Photos! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 8 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 8 | Well, 15 years ago when I put it in there was not as much to pick from. Gets you nice big disc brakes (Truck stops better than my wife’s ’99 Caravan) Power steering and it rides and handles much better. I drove this as my daily with the straight axle and drum brakes in San Diego rush hour traffic for 5 years. It was like night and day when I switched over to it. Now, with all the stuff available for these trucks I would do it different.
Later...
1950 Chevy 3100
1953 Hudson Hornet
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 | Well, with Woodstock as your co-pilot...how can you miss?  | | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,095 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,095 | RG1950, go to www.rockauto.com for your parts. i also have a pacer front clip for the same reason. (rgs) 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
| | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 |
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: Dec 2005 Posts: 47 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 47 | welcome to the board..good lookin chevy!
1966 Chevrolet C-10
1971 Chevrolet Camaro RS
1989 Pontiac Bonneville
MY GARAGE...www.dragcitygarage.com
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 199 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 199 | Nice truck!!!When you move from MO to your next destination just let me know and I will come drive the truck for you!!!WELCOME to you and your truck.
Hobert
"The Lord is my shepherd"
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 | nice truck... looks like the floor of the bed is all wood, is that right?
-W | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 | Nice Ride there RG.
Welcome to the BOLT.
Cliff59 | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 507 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 507 | RG, welcome to the bolt, what do you call that one, Got to be Grape in there some where !!! Nice Ride. 
"If it ain't Steel it ain't Real" "Earth the insane aslyum for the rest of the Universe" 41 1/2-ton, a work in progress 68 Shortbed stepside 327/325hp/700R4
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 8 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 8 | Hey all, thanks for the thumbs up on my 'ol truck. Woogeroo...Yes its an all wood bed. Solid Home Depot plywood. Someday I'll figure out a better looking way to do it. I don't want to buy one of the bed wood kits as I would have to cut it up for my trunk. I have my battery and a full size spare mounted vertically in there w/a well going down through the bed. 41Chevy...It’s a stock 91 Ford Lincoln color (That’s when the truck was painted) called Medium Aubergene Pearl Metallic. I wanted to go w/a House of color candy purple but my brother (The painter) talked me out of it. Too hard to match stone chips and scratches (The truck gets 'um, I drive it). I see you are from East County. I used to live just off the I-8 on the way up to Alpine before I moved to MO (had a El Cajon address) Is that big swap meet at the stadium this month? Man I miss that, it was huge! They still holding that cruise night in downtown El Cajon?
Later...
1950 Chevy 3100
1953 Hudson Hornet
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 507 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 507 | RG, cruise nite sill going storng, each Wed. nite starting in April. Big 3 swap meet starts the 24 - 26 of Feb., Got lots of 41-46 parts to sort through to get ready for the meet. Like the color of the truck.
Later ...
"If it ain't Steel it ain't Real" "Earth the insane aslyum for the rest of the Universe" 41 1/2-ton, a work in progress 68 Shortbed stepside 327/325hp/700R4
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 15 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 15 | Welcome! I'm a newie too. I just recieved a '39 from the St Louis area about a month ago. Needs a lot, but I can't wait to tear into it! Hope it comes out half as nice as yours! | | |
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