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| | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 3 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 3 | Hello everyone and thank you for letting me join. My dad and i are in the process of building a 38 chevy pickup. we are streetrodding it out. we started with a 3/4ton and i cut it down to a 1/2ton. and we have a mustang II front suspension with a late 80'2 model chevy elcamino rearend. the power is a 62 yr 283ci with a 700r4 trans. dad like it due to overdrive. well we will get some more info on it and some pics to but thanks and i plan on using all of your advice and critizium too. Thanks. | | | | | 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 | Welcome Wildman38. Let us know how we can help.... and your dad is right. The overdrive on the 700R4 is nice. I love the one I put in my 37. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | Welcome from Scotland Wildman. Sounds like a great father and son project. Post up some pics when you get a chance. 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: Jun 2000 Posts: 738 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 738 | | | | | | Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 323 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 323 | Hello there I am also building a 38 pickup 283,700r4. Just getting started, collecting parts,cab comes off Saturday.
What rear end do you plan to use?
These old bolts are in my blood. Hard thing is focusing on just one.
1937 Chevy 1/2 ton panel
1953 GMC 2 ton. future car hauler
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | welcome, I love ny hot rod ..
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: Feb 2010 Posts: 44 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 44 | hey wildman 38 and b n b,im also building a 38 pu,would love to see some pics of your builds.im in the middle of rodding a 38 pu at the moment,documenting the build at ( www.hotrod.ie) hot 350,700r4 mustang 2ifs ,c3 irs herriot ireland
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| | | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,312 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,312 | Sounds like you guys are off to a good start ! Have fun | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 3 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 3 | we chose a rearend out of a 80 elcamino, we took off the original upper and lower control arms. and put it on a set of leaf springs. I shall post some build pics soon. | | |
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