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| | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 117 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 117 | Well, We went down and dug about a foot and a half of mud away from the truck and layed down some sand and gravel... Looks like I will be picking up the truck in the next few weeks! I tried posting pics previously, but it didn't work for some reason... I'll try again: http://www.oldsub.com/images/2006/02/MrDanB/truckfront.JPG http://www.oldsub.com/images/2006/02/MrDanB/truckside.JPG Thanks to Steve (old sub) for the hosting. I am looking forward to fixing up this old bolt and getting it back on the road!! Dano 
my truck gets better every day...every PAYDAY | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,682 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,682 | Dosen't look like it's stuck at all.. can't you just throw a chain around it and pull it out with a tractor?
an idea is only stupid if you think about it rationally.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 117 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 117 | I took those pics months ago. Since then, we have been bombarded with rain. The truck is sitting on dirt which turned to soupy mud all around it. The guy who owns the truck is a friend of the family and he will hold it until he deems he's ready to move it. He also stated that he has the windshield, grille, bumpers, and some extras that he will just throw in for it. I see in the catalogs that 57 grilles are almost non existent for some reason? They sure look like the vette grille of that year... Anyway, it needs lots of love and hard work, but I can make it happen...
Dano
my truck gets better every day...every PAYDAY | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 323 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2005 Posts: 323 | It's good to see the pictures  Nice that he'll be giving you some of the parts you'll need. So, are you going to drive it 'down' here in the summer? As I said before, your Camaro looks great . If you do half as nice a job on this one, it'll sure be a looker  Sab | | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 531 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 531 | Is that a 56 or 7 Dan? Good luck with the project! Keep those pics coming! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | I know where you can get a tow truck if you need it, a big one or a small one 
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: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | Larry - you can tell it's a 57 by the mounting holes on the ridge each side of the grill opening - the 55-6 grill fits inside the ridge, 57 mounts on top of the ridge Dano - 57 truck grills look like 57 vette grills?? :confused: the reason you don't find the 57 grills in catalogs is that they've never been reproduced - everyone prefers the 55-6 grill - you'd hafta find a good used one if the one w/ the truck is too rough Bill | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 117 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 117 | Huh, I was told that the vette grille and truck for 57 was similar. Guess my Brother in law is talkin' smack... It IS a '57, 3100 step side small window. It has the original 283 and hubcaps from the factory. not sure what to do with the engine yet. either rebuild it or stuff something big in it... Getting a flat bed to get it home isn't the problem. It's having the owner move a bunch of crap away from in front of it and the ground drying up. I'll have it home in the next few weeks. I saw in the local paper a Napco truck for 1500 up in Bellingham, Wa. I LOVE the looks of those, but enough projects going on now as it is... I'll post additional pics as I get it home and start tearing it apart.
Dan
my truck gets better every day...every PAYDAY | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | Dan - if it's really the original V8 in a 57 it's most likely the 265, as the 283 wasn't put in light trucks until the end of 57 - the first year of all 283, no more 265 was 58
265's had no built-in oil filter
Bill | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 117 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 117 | The guy who has the truck now said that it was a 283 and that it was the original motor. I will have to check for the oil filter when I get it to my place. Actually, I have about 10,000 questions about the truck.lol I will have many late nights researching stuff in past threads. Even though I don't have it home yet, I keep looking at old trucks going down the road and try to guess what year they are. I saw an Apache on the freeway today, but didn't look as old as a 57. It had a "20" on the fender with some other script, but couldn't tell...
Dano
my truck gets better every day...every PAYDAY | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 | The 57 grill was for one year only - another reason its not reproduced. I like it. Distinctive. | | |
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