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| | | | Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 804 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 804 | One of my co-workers has a 1951 Chevy pickup and drove it to work Friday. He asked me if I wanted to take it for a drive. OH MY GOD, did it bring back memories. I bought mine in 1973 and a lot of memories came flooding back as I drove the thing around the block. From racing it at the drags to my old girl friend next to me. It is just as mine was (minus the chopped top) when I drove it to high school. Mine was pumped but it has the stove bolt and a floor shift three speed (I put a muncie in mine after about a year driving it). But it is all stock as far as the interior just as mine is going to be again. Oh my God, I was out in the garage over the weekend to get my Gran Sport going and out of my life so I can get back to my "Dream Truck". I have a couple of kids and with work I find it hard to get out in the garage and work. Over the weekend I busted my butt on that car. I thanked my co-worker today that asked him to drive his truck to work every month or so to keep me fired up.  This truck is SWEET, it drives like an S-10, what a nice truck! The suspension is all stock save for a dropped axle in the front and lowering blocks out back. I have to tell you, I was REAL impressed with how sweet this thing drove. Man do I miss driving something like that! Brian Click on the link to see his beautiful truck. http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa167/BasicsofBasics/100_9436.jpg
1948 Chevy Pickup
Chopped and sectioned
owned since 1974 when I was 15.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | yup, they are fun to drive.........I miss mine a lot..
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | 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 | Brian, its hard to deal with what we have and be looking for another project at the same time. That said, I think your wise to get the Grand Sport out of your life. Its sort or like women. You know what the song says..... "trying to love two women (or projects) is like a ball and chain  | | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,095 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,095 | Lately it seems all i get to drive mine is from one shop to another but the other day i drove it for about ten miles and it was sweet. plan to have the new aluminum radiator in it this week. BTW beautiful truck but where were all those 5 windows when i was looking. ron
Ron, The Computer Greek I love therefore I am.1954 3100 Chevy truckIn the Gallery 2017 Buick Encore See more pix1960 MGA Roadster Sold 7/18/2017
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,780 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,780 | Nice truck! I didn't think you needed to be fired up! you are always movin' | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 131 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 131 | Wow that's a pretty truck.
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: Oct 2000 Posts: 804 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 804 | Yep, it was this guys first build he ever did and he is so proud of that truck he could pop, and rightly so. I am still blown away at how nice this thing drove. The motor, the shifting, the steering, it was so darn smooth it was almost like it had an automatic it shifted so nice. I forgot was a lot of torque can do. You don't have to bring the RPM up, you just let off the gas, push in the clutch shift and let out the clutch, this all happens with the motor at 500 RPM or something. It is like the motor isn't even running, it is just so darn smooth I can't get over it. Brian
1948 Chevy Pickup
Chopped and sectioned
owned since 1974 when I was 15.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | I sold my first 51 in 1969 to a farmer in East Texas that had been a customer of mine. I ran into him at a restaurant in Dallas in 1984 and asked him whatever happened to the old truck. He said he still drove it on the farm. He said he could come up to some new trucks stuck in the mud and, "just put it in 2nd gear and putt,putt right on by them."
~Jim
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