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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 Camp Commandant | | Camp Commandant Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 | My flippin computer has been on the fritz for the last couple of days so what a pleasent suprise to get back on line and find my truck on the cover of the Stovebolt Page. As always I owe John and Peggy a huge thank you for that honor. I have said many times since I purchased my truck and my first computer back in the fall of 2000 that I could not have restored my truck without this awesome site and all the knowlegeable people here. Once I got my truck on the road I attended a truck show in southern Md thanks to the invite by John. This show was where I signed up to become a member of the ATHS Baltimore Washington Chapter. I have since met a lot really nice people and have attended some great events including the National Convention in Baltimore last spring. The bonus of it all has been getting to know and becoming friends with John and Peggy. They are truley very special people.
As most of us will say, my truck is still not finished and I continue to learn from this site. I look forward to future truck shows and meeting more fellow stovebolters.
Thanks again to John and Peg and all the folks that make the Stovebolt Page possible.
Bill Marlow
~ Billy Old Dominion Stovebolt Society: Exotic Animal Division 1946 Chevrolet Cab Over Engine | In the Gallery | Video | More pictures1959 GMC 860 | Pictures1950 GMC 450 Flatbed W/W, Air Brake equipt (25% Owner) | Pictures1950 Chevrolet 3800 | PicturesI've got a trailer and I'm not afraid to use it! | | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 584 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 584 | An honor well deserved for such a nice, professional, tasteful restoration. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 442 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 442 | That is sweet, when I first saw it the other day, I thought that's cool... Mike | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 284 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 284 | I'll say it again that is one nice truck. There are a few trucks that really stand out on this site(where you just say WOW!) and yours is one of them. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 Camp Commandant | | Camp Commandant Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 | Man you guys, awfully nice comments. The truck was my first restoration so there is a lot of stuff I would love to do over again. Hopefully in the future I will have that opportunity. It is by far a professional job but this way the kids can climb in the back and I don't have a heart attack or if I put a little scratch in it its not the end of the world. I have only put about 3 hundred miles on it in the last couple of years. There are a number of contributing factors to that besides the fact that it only gets to about 43 miles an hour. I'm still learning how to drive the thing. The sound of grinding gears is fairly noraml when I am behind the wheel, although I think I have all the bugs worked out of the clutch and I am getting better(no comment John).
Thanks again, Tomcoe, Achipmunk, Bluedot and dad6timz.
Bill
~ Billy Old Dominion Stovebolt Society: Exotic Animal Division 1946 Chevrolet Cab Over Engine | In the Gallery | Video | More pictures1959 GMC 860 | Pictures1950 GMC 450 Flatbed W/W, Air Brake equipt (25% Owner) | Pictures1950 Chevrolet 3800 | PicturesI've got a trailer and I'm not afraid to use it! | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 311 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 311 | Very nice truck! It belongs on the cover!
Always get a 2nd opinion, especially if I am the source of the 1st opinion.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,946 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,946 | | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,602 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,602 | It looks great! I like the color of the cab as it makes it look like a toy. That was meant as a compliment. I love that thing because it looks so different than most trucks.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 28 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 28 | Very nice.... Congrats
Sean
Never Let Them Go
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | welcome cowboy, it dont get any better then what you have...love it............ [img] http://www.stovebolt.com/gallery/images/marlow_bill_1946c.jpg[/img]
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: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,317 Former Workshop Owner | | Former Workshop Owner Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,317 | Bill that photo of your truck is just absolutely perfect. Not only does your truck look great, but the kids, green grass, and country like background just compliments your truck even more. I had to save the image immediately after first viewing it.
Congratulations on the excellent restoration, and great job on the photography.
John | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,374 Moderator - The Electrical Bay | | Moderator - The Electrical Bay Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,374 |
Another quality post.
Real Trucks Rattle
HELP! The Paranoids are after me!
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 159 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 159 | It is nice to see these things brought back from the dead and you did a great job on that truck Bill. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 866 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 866 | Great looking truck, Bill | | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 Camp Commandant | | Camp Commandant Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 | Man I am blown away by the compliments from all of you. Very humbled. I have been busy with my new shop project and have not spent much time here in the last day or so. I thought this thread had died off. All the posts are a very nice surprise.
John, the picture was taken in September at a little party my wife and I had at our house to celebrate our recent marriage. It was a beautiful day and the perfect time to snap a few pics with the kids.
Thanks again, 49 Chevy, Rich, Va Firetrk, Sean, Joker, John, Rusty, Zip and Frank.
~ Billy Old Dominion Stovebolt Society: Exotic Animal Division 1946 Chevrolet Cab Over Engine | In the Gallery | Video | More pictures1959 GMC 860 | Pictures1950 GMC 450 Flatbed W/W, Air Brake equipt (25% Owner) | Pictures1950 Chevrolet 3800 | PicturesI've got a trailer and I'm not afraid to use it! | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 29 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 29 | You just don't see too many COE these days , especially such a nice looking one... GREAT JOB!! Ed
Those who fail to plan, plan to fail....
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 Camp Commandant | | Camp Commandant Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 | Thanks Ed, I would love to see more too.Bill
~ Billy Old Dominion Stovebolt Society: Exotic Animal Division 1946 Chevrolet Cab Over Engine | In the Gallery | Video | More pictures1959 GMC 860 | Pictures1950 GMC 450 Flatbed W/W, Air Brake equipt (25% Owner) | Pictures1950 Chevrolet 3800 | PicturesI've got a trailer and I'm not afraid to use it! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 428 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 428 | I agree, that is one SWEET truck. Great job, Bill. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 Camp Commandant | | Camp Commandant Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 |
~ Billy Old Dominion Stovebolt Society: Exotic Animal Division 1946 Chevrolet Cab Over Engine | In the Gallery | Video | More pictures1959 GMC 860 | Pictures1950 GMC 450 Flatbed W/W, Air Brake equipt (25% Owner) | Pictures1950 Chevrolet 3800 | PicturesI've got a trailer and I'm not afraid to use it! | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,410 ODSS President | | ODSS President Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,410 | Stovebolt fans, I have been lucky enough to see this beautiful restoration example in person. As y'all might have guessed the truck is of course nicer in person. A worthy example of a great truck on the cover of The Stovebolt Page.
~ Cosmo
1949 Chevy Half Ton
Rocinante, like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.
"...my good horse Rocinante, mine eternal and inseparable companion in all my journeys and courses." ...Don Quixote, Cervantes
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."...Yogi Berra
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." ...Eric Hoffer
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 Camp Commandant | | Camp Commandant Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 | Come on now Cosmo, "nicer in person", what was the name of the sreet you lived on in college? The pics do this truck a lot of justice, but I appreciate the kind words. Now, I have been fortunate to see a truck that is worthy of the cover even on its ingenuity and resilence alone. That is Cosmos daily driver with all its goodies listed in his signature. That is a cool truck.
~ Billy Old Dominion Stovebolt Society: Exotic Animal Division 1946 Chevrolet Cab Over Engine | In the Gallery | Video | More pictures1959 GMC 860 | Pictures1950 GMC 450 Flatbed W/W, Air Brake equipt (25% Owner) | Pictures1950 Chevrolet 3800 | PicturesI've got a trailer and I'm not afraid to use it! | | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 | I'm not convinced about Bill's truck anymore.... Hmm, let's see... we put Bill's truck on the "cover" of the Stovebolt Page... Stovebolt Mainframe melts down...
Does A plus B equal C? I'm thinking so...
:p
John
~ One of many.
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 Camp Commandant | | Camp Commandant Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,393 | Or could it be that the G-poo bah has been out playin fireman a little too much latley. I think that sireeen is having an effect on your connection???? When does A+B ever equal C.
~ Billy Old Dominion Stovebolt Society: Exotic Animal Division 1946 Chevrolet Cab Over Engine | In the Gallery | Video | More pictures1959 GMC 860 | Pictures1950 GMC 450 Flatbed W/W, Air Brake equipt (25% Owner) | Pictures1950 Chevrolet 3800 | PicturesI've got a trailer and I'm not afraid to use it! | | |
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