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Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
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| | | | Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 77 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 77 | Got to drive my truck ten miles yesterday. What a blast. I am about ready to prime it. I am going to prime it at my Dad's shop which is about ten miles from the house. I currently do not have a trailer big enough to haul it there and it does run so why not. I drove the truck with no windshield. I had just enough plexiglass to tape in place over the rear window and the side windows to knock a lot of the air down. It was 34 degrees when I left the house but I didn't hardly notice because, Shoot I was driving my truck.  It was porbably a good thing that it was so cold, I don't like bugs in my teeth from smiling the whole way there. I am having so much fun. I posted another picture in my slideshow below. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 131 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 131 | Very cool !! I like the videos and the trucks
1952 Chevy 3804My 1952 in the Gallery The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | I checked out your slide show. Both trucks are looking real nice! The drive to your dad's must have been fun. 34 degrees? at least there wouldn't have been too many bugs in your teeth!  Keep us posted. 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: Nov 2008 Posts: 104 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 104 | Way to go!!! There is nothing like the feeling of accomplishment when you drive your project for the first time!!! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 397 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 397 | Congratulations!!! You've come a long way!! TWO "Great Trucks"!! I just love all that steel!!!
"Lucille" ..... Proud Member of the "Southern Stovebolts" David Wolff 1946 Chevy 1/2-ton In the Gallery | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | I think I understand about the big grin. 
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,217 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,217 | That is too cool! I'd be grinning too. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,026 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,026 | Welcome to the club!
Robert C. If it's true what they say, "You learn from your mistakes," I'm a Genius in the making. 1950 3600 | | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 158 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 158 | Getty up bud....know how that feels and it feels sooooooooooo good!! Good luck, Steve in Idaho | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 321 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 321 | congrats on getting the ole truck to move. i am not even close yet but i bet it feels great. so does it drive like a new truck or a old truck???....
mine the s10 frame and the 53 cab are about 100 feet apart with tons of snow between...spring is a coming for sure...cant wait to have that same feeling...
good luck in the future with both your projects
1951 Chevy 3800 1-TonHoward KnappIn the Stovebolt Gallery1948 Chevy 1-Ton (sold Nov 2017)1953 Chevy 1-Ton (sold 10/1/2016) | | | | | Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 77 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 77 | I drove the truck again today. I took one of our old neighbors, Mr. Tyner, for a drive down the road. Mr. Tyner has been retired for several years now and he has a 48 chevy 1/2 ton that he has restored along with two chevy cars I think a 48 delux and a 42 something. He has been a good source of local knowledge. He really liked the truck and said the body work looked really great.
Since I had the truck out I actually drove it down the road a mile or so to the local salvage yard to try to find a primary hood latch pin and spring. This is the same yard that I bought the truck 6 or 7 years ago. The salvage yard owner was impressed. He was actually going to give me the part that I needed but he didn't have one. He said if I can't find one then he would turn one in his lathe. Most of the local yard have crushed all of their stock within the last few years due to the increased scrap prices at the time. He actually only had one 48 1/2 ton withno hood and one 58 big bolt.
Oh Mikec4193, the truck drives like the mid 70's to early 80's trucks which is just the way I like them. It has enough rigidity that you can feel the road but enough cush that you don't feel beat after driving. I grew up driving a 78 chevy and mid 80's fords and I have always liked being able to feel the the terrain through the steering wheel and the pedals. I currently drive a 2002 dodge and when I first started driving it I had a hard time feeling the terrain. You will spin the tires more with the newer vehicles in soft terrain like a pasture field, just my experience. | | |
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