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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 144 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 144 | Howdy Folks, Well, after waiting for 14 months and then driving 2320 kms round trip in two days, I finally got my new 58 GMC home. When I got there, the guy had two more 58's. Here\'s one of them. I wished that I could have dragged them all home. Oh well. Maybe in a couple more years I can go back. What an adventure! Zeke | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 183 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 183 | Congrats on yer new GM! Looks good...that Chevy looks good too - more like a 59. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 382 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 382 | Way to go Zeke! Good lookin' truck, should be lots of fun. Keep us posted on the progress!  | | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 172 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 172 | The more I see of the 58's and 59's...startin' to like those too. (Blasphemy alert!) I'm thinking it would be neat to hot rod one...the lines on that truck would be great with a hot rod paint job. 
1965 Chevy C-30 1-Ton "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." | | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 707 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 707 | Nah. Chrome everything that will unbolt from the front. That's what I'd do.
Where'd you go, Ezekiel? Winnipeg?
1951 3800 Be the change you want to see. -hotshoe
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 149 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 149 | Originally posted by hotshoe36:
Nah. Chrome everything that will unbolt from the front. That's what I'd do.
Where'd you go, Ezekiel? Winnipeg? OK OK OK..... How many times I gotta tell ya???? Chrome?? DOESN'T make it go faster!!!!!
\'48 chev 2-ton boom truck (Boomer) '49 Chev 2-ton flat bed '65 Chev 35ft school bus '88 GMC 6500 '72 Superior 26ft class "A" coach '50 Farmall "M" '71 MGB GT '68 Austin-Healey Sprite '65 Austin-Healey Sprite and various other odd British cars and lots of old radios..... Although we know what the speed of light is..... What I want to know is... How fast is the speed of DARK??
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 507 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 507 | Yea but it sure makes em look nice!!
"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: 162 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 162 | That truck looks so cool! I love it! Good luck with your project. Keep Pictures comming!
Chris
1956 Chevrolet 4400
1959 Chevrolet Viking 60
1968 Chevrolet el Camino
2002 Chevrolet 1500HD 4x4
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 234 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 234 | I agree that the truck in the link looks like a 59: at least that looks like the hood chrome on a 59. The 58 hood emblem was a little smaller on the 58 among other slight differences.
58 Fleetside, 235, "The Old Buckin' Bronco"
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 866 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 866 | I like that year also. good luck with your project. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 144 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 144 | Hey Guys,
Yup. It is definitely a 59. At least, according to the VIN but not according to the DOT.
It seems that back in the fall of 1958, the 1959 model came out and got sold and then the DOT registered these trucks as 1958's because it was 1958. I know this wasn't just a mistake because I had another 1959 Chevy that was registered as a 1958.
And now, 49 years later, when I go to register the truck in my name, the DOT insists that it is a 1958 model.
Who are you going to believe? DOT or GM?
Oh, hotshoe36. I had to go to Swan River, MB. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 | Originally posted by sablesurfer:
The more I see of the 58's and 59's...startin' to like those too.
"it is true" ...the 59's grow on you! Cliff (the Poet)59 | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 37 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 37 | Your 58 and my 58 look about the same when we brought them home. Cept mines step and a bowtie...oh and got them fancy mag wheelies on mine. They have got to go...gonna trade a fella the five wheels and tires for five tires that fit the original rims. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,867 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,867 | Originally posted by Graflexmaster: Originally posted by hotshoe36:
[b] Nah. Chrome everything that will unbolt from the front. That's what I'd do.
Where'd you go, Ezekiel? Winnipeg?
Chrome?? DOESN'T make it go faster!!!!! [/b]You dont have to go fast when you can go in style! | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,993 Crusty Old Sarge | | Crusty Old Sarge Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,993 | Originally posted by sablesurfer: The more I see of the 58's and 59's...startin' to like those too.
(Blasphemy alert!) I'm thinking it would be neat to hot rod one...the lines on that truck would be great with a hot rod paint job.
So let me get this straight... if I lower My 59', stuff a nasty V8 in and some metalic paint it's "BLASPHEMY". Oooops, someone should have told me ahead of time.
~ Craig 1958 Viking 4400"The Book of Thor"Read the story in the DITY1960 Chevrolet C10"A Family Heirloom"Follow the story in the DITY Gallery'59 Apache 31, 327 V8 (0.030 over), Muncie M20 4 Speed, GM 10 Bolt Rear... long term project (30 years and counting) Come Bleed or Blister, something has got to give!!! | Living life in the SLOW lane | | |
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