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| | | | Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 9 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 9 | [ webshots I just joined. Been looking for a truck for a few years now and I found this just a few miles away. I think it is a pretty decent piece to start putting back together.
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | Hi Skydaddy. Welcome to the 'bolt! Nice lookin' GMC. Give it a wash and drive it!!  Feel free to ask plenty of questions,there are loads of folk here who will help you on your 'journey' Jock 
1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 | Nice truck to start with. Looks like its in really good shape. Welome.
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: 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 | ....put it back together??? Man, that thing looks like its ready to go as is. Looks like a nice original truck to save from scrap yard.
Oh, a big welcome to the stovebolt. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 9 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 9 | I wish it was as easy as giving it a wash and driving it. There was a very big rat that had decided that it needed to make a nest out of all the wires that were in the truck - along with all of the padding from the seat. The engine (which has a remanufactured plate on it - so it is not original to the truck) will not turn over - or even budge. The truck has not been started in over 20 years. The oil looked like gray jelly.
I lucked out over the weekend though - I found a '54 that some guy was getting rid of some of the parts and he sold me the engine tranny and driveline for $300. They were running when he parked the truck - 6 months ago. He is making a hot rod out of his and does not want/need the original driveline.
There is a little rust on the floor (need to replace a few floor panels) and a few dents here and there (right front fender). It is a very solid truck. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 346 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 346 | Hope your new used engine and tranny works out for you. Welcome to the Bolt! 
Terry K.
1951 5 window 1/2 ton
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 | Hi Skydaddy. Welcome to the 'bolt! Nice lookin' GMC. Give it a wash and drive it!! Don't wash it Skydaddy ... the patina is whats holding em together! Welcome to the bolt!  Cliff59 | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,215 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,215 | That's some nice looking iron you have there, Skydaddy. With a slightly more modern driveline, you'll be all set. Welcome to the club! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 9 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 9 | Well after 2 hours and some experienced help from my father-in-law (mechanic with a lift) the new to me I-6 and 4 speed are at my house. A couple more hours spent cleaning and taking thing apart and it is on the engine stand ready for a light freshening up. Who was the brain surgeon that put those 4 bolts on the inside of the bell housing?
Also had my wheels shot peened (sp?) and I have some real work there to try to get them ready for powder coating. What was the correct color for wheels in '53? I was thinking about a white with a touch of a cream - kind of like antique white. That with the chrome lug covers with the red GMC in the middle. Also thinking of grey/blue instead of the original black. My '79 corvette is black and 1 black car is enough.
I am starting to take stuff apart and order some other things like floor pans and such. My goal is to have it dismanteled my Christmas (well at least the big parts) and then hopefully under cover. Cleaning, repairing and painting.
More updates later.
Thanks for the support guys.
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