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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 42 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 42 | I'm finally driving it!! Here I am, parked on the street at work! Today picture I drove it around a little bit last week, but the rearend howled like a mountain cat in heat. Just finished up getting a '69 Chevy 1/2 ton 12 bolt in last night, now I can hear all the rattles! It's on to fixing up all the other stuff. Still need to get the gauge cluster installed, along with a bunch of new parts I ordered. Speedo cable, fuel sending unit, and get the charging system going. Needs rear shocks, too. I'm excited I'll be daily driving my '57 on its 50th anniversary, and on the 30th of this month I'll have had this truck exactly a year and a half!! Before picture Here's what it looked like when I got it 10/30/05, the previous owner dismantled it completely to "Pro-Street" it, he got overwhelmed before he could screw it up too bad. I'm just excited to be driving my "new" old truck!! | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 | You've come a long way in 18 months. Way to go! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,464 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,464 | You really brought that ol' bolt back to life! Congrats on your new driver!! | | | | | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 213 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 213 | It came a long way, good job. I give you credit too for driving it without a gauge cluster.
Joe
54 Triumph TR2(rhd)needs total resto.
60 Apache 10 stepside shortbed
99 Excelsior Henderson
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 86 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 86 | Ahh, hell, speedos are over rated any way! Looks good. Keep up the good work.  | | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 118 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 118 | Great job on the truck. Also like your website. We are almost neighbors, I'm from modesto, work in your area quite often.
Ken | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 | i always liked the lines on those trucks
congrats
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -D. Parker 1951 Chevy 3100 | | | | | Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 191 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 191 | Looks great and I bet you've got a big smile.  | | | | | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 382 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 382 | Very impressive, Rabid! You deserve to be proud of what you have accomplished! Enjoy!  | | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 183 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 183 | You guys with real "drivers" just push us who have the "almost ready to drive" to get r dun! Great job Rabid. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | I have always thought the 55-58 trucks are the best looking GM ever built. When I finish my AD I think I'll look for one of those.
Good work, I'm jealous!!!
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 179 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 179 | Lookin' good partner.
You have done a wonderful job.
Congratulations!
When I go cruisin' in the old truck....women smile, men weep and dogs beg for rides.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 162 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 162 | Thats sooo cool! Congradulations, keep up the good work.
Chris
1956 Chevrolet 4400
1959 Chevrolet Viking 60
1968 Chevrolet el Camino
2002 Chevrolet 1500HD 4x4
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 866 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 866 | | | | | | 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 | time, patience and hard work does pay off. Way to goooooooooo! | | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,317 Former Workshop Owner | | Former Workshop Owner Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,317 | Way to go!! Another one is saved!! Quite often when they are that far apart and the owner loses ambition, they get their parts divided and sold, never to be whole again. Good Job  John | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,993 Crusty Old Sarge | | Crusty Old Sarge Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,993 | Your before picture reminds me of what I have left to do. It's nice to see these old trucks back on the road where they belong.(Love your seat cover)
~ 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 | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 341 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 341 | Way to go! Gives me that much more incentive to get busy on mine.
Allan
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1951 GMC 1/2-ton
Two 1953 Chevy 3100 5-window
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,374 Moderator - The Electrical Bay | | Moderator - The Electrical Bay Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,374 | sweet... keep up the good work. :hammering:
Another quality post.
Real Trucks Rattle
HELP! The Paranoids are after me!
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,971 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,971 | I love that rugged look. Nice truck! | | | | | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,271 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,271 | Awesome! Congratulations!!! We all know how you feel and we're grinning from ear to ear with you, man.
~~ Alan Horvath 1954 Chevy PickupSinging his praises in thePassing Lane | | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 428 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 428 | Great job. You have accomplished so much in so little time. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 42 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 42 | Thanks for the good words, guys!! I'm just jazzed to have it rolling down the road!
The speedometer is coming, along with the fuel gauge. Two things I don't want to be without on a daily! I have aftermarket oil pressure and water temp gauges under the dash until I get the factory stuff hooked up correctly. There's something to be said about an old truck (or car) with everything in the dash working as designed.
Big Chevy, it's funny, I was looking for an AD GMC truck when I stumbled upon this Chevy. Love those AD trucks, but when I found this truck, I had to have it!
I'll post some more pictures after I knock some of the body into better shape and get a coat of primer on it. Eventually it will get paint, but it's going to be my workin' truck, so it'll never be a flawless show pony, but as long as it's dead reliable, it's the perfect Chevy truck! | | | | | Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,028 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,028 | What a great job! Congratulations on your noew driver! | | |
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