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| | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 | Nice looking ride, Todd!
Body looks really straight! It should be a snap to get that looking cherry!
How does that old babbit pounding 235 run? | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 510 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 510 | Man, you gotta leave that sign on the door. It's priceless.
Keep us updated on your project, k? | | | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 23 Member | | Member Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 23 | Really consider setting the doors aside they ARE priceless.Those would look great as decoration in your shop. Or sell them & finance your rebuild | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 | I hope you keep that lettering as well. You can tape it and paint it, or get a sign guy to redo them. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 | Originally posted by ChevyAsylum:
Man, you gotta leave that sign on the door. It's priceless.
Asylum is 100% CORRECT!! If You can.. Paint that Bolt back to original and KEEP the Dunn Chevy Sign, because it looks  Cliff59 | | | | | Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 156 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 156 | Great truck. Really great sign. You need to go to Roanoke, Alabama with it. Small little country town with nice folks. Not sure if that company is still there or not. It has been about 5 years since I went through.Used to live near there. Good Luck.
Just checked . They are still around.
Dunn Chevrolet CO Inc
130 Chestnut Street
Roanoke, AL 36274
"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of
us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"
Lt Gen. Lewis B."Chesty" Puller, USMC
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 145 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 145 | Originally posted by ChevyAsylum:
Man, you gotta leave that sign on the door. It's priceless.
Keep us updated on your project, k? Judging from the ages of the "Average Age" string, not many of us remember a phone number like that. For sure keep the sign. Thruwurkin Kennewick, WA
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| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,971 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,971 | Keep the whole door intact as is. If you want, I'll trade you some nice doors. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,554 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,554 | With all the ID on the engine showing, would it be a 261? Captains bars and all?
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,095 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,095 | TODD M, hey look you have the same emergency brake setup that i have. nice truck. ron
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | nice,,,,,looks like a dunn deal to me 
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: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 | Originally posted by homer52:
With all the ID on the engine showing, would it be a 261? Captains bars and all? With the serial on the engine being LAQ, I thought it was a 1953 babbit pounding 235 (which, now that I think about it, would be a full pressure oiler out of a car...) Upon a "more detailed" cursory inspection, I am under the impression that it's a 235. But according to this there was an engine that started with LAQ that was used for something that the guy who did the page doesn't know about. Did they make 261's in 1953? | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 275 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 275 | I would keep the body of the truck as is. Keep the power train running good and drive it.
That a little peice of history you very rarely see.
38 original
48 panel
59 stepside
46 in the back forty
| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 166 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: May 2006 Posts: 166 | Thanks for all the messages. I have not settled on how to finish the truck. Right not I want to get it running. It was in the posession of Dunn Chevrolet until November 2005 I am told. I spoke to Mr. Dunn. It changed hands twice? I bought it from the second fellow on ebay. I had to call Mr Dunn and get a letter from him when trying to get it titled in Pennsylvania. His father had a small collection of cars as well that I am told he sold off.
I believe that it still has the same oil and coolant in it from when it was last tagged in 1976. The PO ran it and it ran to get on the truck. I have tried to start it, but it will barely turn over. It turns very very slowly, like a battery that is almost dead. I bought a new 6 volt battery and it didn't help. So I am planning to change the fluids, rewire it, figure out where all the brake fluid leaked out and maybe rebuild the starter. I will probably convert it to 12 volt. If I get all that done, I will probably drive it as-is for a little while and think about my options. I will keep it garaged in the mean time.
I think that the motor is a 235 out of a 53 passenger car or so I am told. The head appears to be newer as in 54-56ish. I am going to try to dig up the casting numbers. | | |
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