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| | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | I finally aqcuired my old 51 3100!!My step great grandpa bought her brand new,then my dad got her when i was very very young,i dont even remember him drivin it.He drove it till a rod started knockin and parked it.That had to be early 70s!!Somy dad tells me about a year ago i can have the old truck if i wanted it so i jumped at the chance and was able to get her home yesterday!!!Now the fun begins and come up with a plan to do with it!!!The keys were still in the ignition and the glove box and doors still lock,and had a locking gas cap on it that still works!!Gonna be a lot of fun!!!!!!  | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,867 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,867 | Congrats! And welcome to the bolt. Lots of good people and info here.
Jeff | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 3,378 Crusty Old Sarge | | Crusty Old Sarge Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 3,378 | It's cool when you get something passed down through the family. It looks very solid... I grew up in Yuma so I know about desert and no rust. Welcome to the "BOLT"
~ 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) If you don't like driving yourTruck, you won't drive yourTruck..| Living life in the SLOW lane | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | Yes it is very solid,tho a rat resided in it for a number of years and i will be putting new floor pans in it thx to mr rat!!!!! :-( | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 | Looks like your gonna be havin fun for quite a spell.Good luck with you project.Keep us updated on your progress. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 382 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 382 | Neat story, Brian! Congrats on the aquisition. Hang around here & you'll have 'er going in no time. Lots of good folks here to help you along!
Welcome!! | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 866 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 866 | Congrats Brian. Dig in and have some fun. Nice story also. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | Great Brian and welcome to the 'bolt. I would ask one favor though. Resizing your pics to about 400x600 makes it a lot easier for those of us stuck on dial-up to view them. I love your connection to your truck. There's plenty of help waiting for you when/if you need it.
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Name your dog Naked so you can walk Naked in the park.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 565 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 565 | Welcome. Love that natural patina!
"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just leave me alone, you're starting to freak me out."
1957 GMC 150
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | Thank you everyone for the welcomes!!!!!!I really didnt know what to do with this truck,hunted all day yesterday for a 216 but all were sold,and a free 283 popped up on craiglist here,i was right on it and it was 20 minutes away!!!!!!So its gettin a 283,has an sm 420 in it so im on the search for the correct bellhousing and ive got an early set of chevy exhaust manifolds that should work nicely!!!Wish me luck!!!!!!!!!! | | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 13 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 13 | Good luck BRIANTHELION07. I also have a '51...it will be a Great Ride!!!!!!WELCOME
If it's not a Chevy, its just a four letter word... you choose which one.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 | Hi Brian, Very nice Bolt. Welcome and good luck.  Cliff59 | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 166 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 166 | Welcome Brian! Nice looking truck!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS "Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." -- Ronald Reagan 1966 Fleetside SWB Webshots | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 | Welcome! Enjoy your truck and the Stovebolt Page.
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'62 Chevy C-10 Stepside Shortbed (Restomod in progress)
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“I fought the law and the law won" now I are a retired one!
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 513 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 513 | cool looks like a pretty clean old truck, great resto. project
1949 Chevy 3600 Flatbed all orginal 1964 gmc 4000 1973 gmc 6000 2005 chevy duramax 4x4 1994 chevy 1500 Trucks are GM and Tractors are Orange "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." - General George S. Patton | | | | | Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,028 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,028 | Welcome Brian ...Nice lookin truck | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | Thank you everyone for the nice comments!!!I have located a bellhousing,woohooooo!!Still workin on movin mr rat out!!!I put some brake fluid in it and pumped the pedal,it actually built some pressure then a metal line blew so ill replace all brake lines next!!!!!!Tryin to decide what brakes i want to run,all kinds of options available!!!!!Id like to stay 6 lug and want to keep the straight axle in front.Hopin the rear axle will do the job with the 283,we shall see!!!!!!Once again thx for the nice comments ill keep you updated as i make progress!!!!!! | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | Finally got mr rat all moved out!!!!!!Have a bare interior now and quite a bit of time with the pressuer washer,lmao!!!!!!!!These guys are nasty!!!EWWWWWW | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 | I know what you are taking about! I had only God knows how many mice living in my 57 when I bought it.I still have not got all the smell out yet. Good luck with the restoration & have fun!
1957 Chevrolet 1/2-ton Stepside LB in the Gallery My Photobucket shots The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 339 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 339 | Brian, Welcome to the stovebolt...You storey sort of parellels mine as far as getting the truck from Dad, and Dad got My truck from His
Uncle, who was a Dentist, and still practicing
denistry at 92 years old in KY...The white lightening and tabacco chewing must have played havoc with their teeth...I wish You godspeed on
Your stovebolt.....Bill B | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | More parts comin,lotta work gonna happen this month!!!!!!!! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | Brian: You have a winner there and with that history you will no doubt enjoy every minute of work you do there.
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 11 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: May 2007 Posts: 11 | Hi Brian, Now that eveyone has properly welcomed
you, let me be the first one to give you a piece of our collective sage wisdom. Go out to O'reilly's and buy yourself a giant economy size can of Fabulous B'laster.(penetrating catalyst)
That can,will be your new best friend. Just remember, some of us are Box stock, some are Rat rods and some are Trailer queens. It's your money
and your time, so build it the way you want.
TN ONE TON | | | | | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 677 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 677 | Brian,
First of all...WELCOME TO THE BOLT !!
And the parts will never stop coming !! Build it.. Drive it...and when it breaks (and it will) Fix it !! But most importantly HAVE FUN DOING IT !! I got a 51 myself and Ive been having a blast rebuilding it if you ever need any advice this is the place, These folks are the BEST between my Stovebolt Buds and E bay, Jegs, Summit Racing, And every other vendor listed in the links above, I dont know what I would have done
It sounds like your off to a good start keep us posted !!
Good luck and (Keep posting them pics)
Todd
Some people are like Slinkies, Their not really good for nothing... But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs. 1951 3100 350 TBI Gallery Toddzilla... "$old" | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | Thank you everyone!!!!!!!Got the 283 installed and runnin!!!!!!And i got the saginaw power steering on,wowww what a difference!!!!!Evan got to drive it around the yard a bit!!!!Progress is happenin!!!!!!!! :-) | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | Finally got some webshots up,got the firewall painted as well!!!! | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | Ok more progress done!!!!!!The CPP power booster and mc is installed and all new steel lines ran,brakes bled and work good!!!!!Now time to reinstall motor for the final time!!!!!!Be drivin soon!!!!!!!!New pics on webshots!!!!!! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 90 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 90 | Wow! You work fast! Great truck and great progress. Congrats! | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | | | | | | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 435 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 435 | Way cool! You won't find a better bunch of folks than what hangs out around here. So don't let it get the better of you. Remeber also to keep your chin up, cause it makes a better target. Good luck.
DJ | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 | Welcome... you are in the right place.
Try to avoid 'restoration fever' and try to get it driving and usable first.
-W | | | | | Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,026 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,026 | A belated welcome to you Brian. Looks like you are well on the way to a great project.
Robert C. If it's true what they say, "You learn from your mistakes," I'm a Genius in the making. 1950 3600 | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | Motor is on and runnin again,get to drive it sunday or monday!WOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | Brian:
Somehow I missed the April posts so, WELCOME TO THE BOLT buddy. I noticed one aspect of your 51 that reveals the quality of the truck. The bed rails are dent free, a rare thing for a truck that old and an indication of easy treatment throughout its life. A lot of surface rust is no big deal and they all need the four corners replaced but as far as needing a lot of body work you will miss a lot of that.
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | Thank you sir for the kind words!its great livin in the southwest with little to no rust!!!!!!the rust that is on this truck is from the packrats that resided in it for yrs!!!!!!!! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 385 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 385 | About 'field rats'. My grandmother, who was a little less than 5 feet tall and couldn't make 90 pounds without a couple of rolls of quarters in her pockets, drove a 1952 Chrysler New Yorker (four door). Too big to fit in a standard garage, 331 Hemi and Clutch Flite transmission. After my parents moved her trailer to their house at the Lake of The Ozarks (Laurie), the car sat for about a year after being driven in.
I was home on leave once and took an interest. Popped the hood and . . . the field rats had gotten to it. There was a fairly long heater duct, about 6 inches in diameter and three feet long. All that was left was the wire stiffening. Most of the wiring was bare because the cloth insulation had been eaten away, but it still started and ran. We finally decided to get rid of it because of the rear brakes. Dual single sided wheel cylinders on each wheel. The front brakes worked fine. I think it weighed 4800 pounds.
A kid bought it and managed to get it up more than 90 mph before wrapping it around a tree. He lived, but it wasn't worth salvaging.
195? Chevy 3800 dump truck
1973 Chevy C30 cab and chassis
1987 Suburban 3/4 ton 6.2L Diesel
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | These desert pack rats are bad.I parked my 69 in the yard for 6 weeks and one moved into and filled up the whole heater box with junk!!!!!!!!!Im at war with him now!LMAO LMAO!!!!! | | |
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