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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 | Tango,
Let me see if I can find that for you. The chromer is in Houston but very near Pasadena. Can't think of his shop name. Does great work. One bar on my grill was bent. He worked it until it was right.
I have an interior guy for you and will get you a name and number. He is on Hwy 6 south of 59. Does great work and very reasonably priced.
Mark
1951 Chevy 3100
Some days you get the bear. Some days the bear gets you.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 | Outstanding! Lookin' forward to any rec's from someone who did as great a job as you did. Many thanks pard'. Would love to see that sweetheart in person. Do you make any of the local shows/swap meets? | | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 | Tango, Here is the chrome shop www.speedsportchrome.com/The interior guy is Rocky at(281)489-2580. Yeah, I do make some shows. Have you come up here for Cars and Coffee at The Vintage? Mostly new stuff, but a lot of people appreciate the old. We did Autorama at Thanksgiving. We will do Keels and Wheels in the spring. Mark
1951 Chevy 3100
Some days you get the bear. Some days the bear gets you.
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 | Tango,
Got to looking at your pix. That is going to be sweet. Are you going back to the school bus interior or something different? I'd love to see it.
Mark
1951 Chevy 3100
Some days you get the bear. Some days the bear gets you.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 14 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 14 | Hello from Shepherd. I need to get restarted on mine, it's been several months since I did anything to it. (65 Chevy p.u.) | | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 | Hey Mark --- many thanks for the leads. Coming from another Bolter beats Angie's List! Will touch base with both of them after Christmas and tell'em hello for you.
The bus is going to be a long range RV with only the bare necessities. Small jacknife sofa/bed, shower, toilet, kitchenette and hopefully a little space left for some tools & equipment. I teach a few classes in sculpting cement (yeah, ceement) around the country and this will be my mobile shop/studio. There are a couple of Google SketchUp drawings of the basic layout somewhere in my Flickr Album. If your ever in the big, wicked city you are welcome to stop by, just shoot me a note ahead of time. It's at a different location than my everyday shop.
Familiar with Keels & Wheels but not the Cars & Coffee. Is that up in your neck of the woods?
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 | Tango,
Yeah. It's up here. 249 just east of Louetta. First Saturday of the month. Goes from 8-10am. Some are already there at 6:30. Google Search cars and coffee Houston.
1951 Chevy 3100
Some days you get the bear. Some days the bear gets you.
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 | Tango
Next cars and coffee is January 7
1951 Chevy 3100
Some days you get the bear. Some days the bear gets you.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 | Sounds cool, I will mark my calendar & try and make it. Used to live in Rosehill, just west of Tomball, so I'm familiar with the area. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 |
1951 Chevy 3100
Some days you get the bear. Some days the bear gets you.
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 16 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 16 | actually Bledsoe but they have a car show in levelland in july that coincides with early settlers day. also there is a car show they put on over there called thunder on the plains I'm not sure of the date on that one but it is growing. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 643 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 643 | Hi fellow bolters! Nice to have our "own"part of the big picture.Great site!
Danny
1958 GMC stepside GMC 302 six cylinder 3 speed OD trans
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 15 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 15 | whatcha workin on Wrench Fetcher, Iwe kinda live close by. I in Tomball bout 40 sum miles N of ya Im workin on my 63 GMC Suburban 4x4 | | | | | Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 438 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 438 | Hi folks just found the tx forum . I am in Denton area and just got my 49 burb inspected and on the road in time for Christmas. Tons of things still to do but hope to now be able to drive to swap meets 
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle."-Abraham Lincoln
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | you got any pix of your ride
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: Nov 2008 Posts: 104 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 104 | Nice truck! Where in Texas are you? | | | | | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 68 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 68 | I was in Bastrop the other day and spotted a pair of front finders for a 53. To me they looked to be in good shape.They were $50 each.I don't know why I didn't take pic's. I guess I was just not thinking. But if you need them they are at the Bastrop Auto Salvage.1552 ST HWY 71 W. Phone #512-303-7677 or 512-303-2000. I was there buying headlight buckets for my 52.
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| | | | | Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 544 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 544 | Been MIA from the forum for a while as I have been working on some other projects, mainly a new house and shop so I can work on my 49. Glad to see that we have our own Texas Spot. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 164 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 164 | Greetings from the Panhandle. Haven't been on Stovebolt much lately, nor have I had a lot of time for the '53 project. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 200 | Hey Tango,
I'm no sure I will be able to make it to the Cars and Coffee tomorrow. February is not good either. March should work. Let me know if you will make it then.
Mark
1951 Chevy 3100
Some days you get the bear. Some days the bear gets you.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 | Ya, I'm overloaded with work here myself and won't make it this weekend. I do plan on hitting the Winter Swap Meet in Conroe this February though. It's Feb. 17th - Feb.19th, 2012. Hope to see some Bolters there.
Come to think of it, I'll start a new thread on it as well.
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| | | | | Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 15 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 15 | | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | Tomball has some good high school ladies softball
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: Jan 2011 Posts: 305 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 305 | my truck is in chilton (20 mi s of waco) but i work in abilene.
1963 c10
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 15 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 15 | | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | Guys, it would be helpful if everyone with just "Texas" as their location would add the name of their town.
~Jim
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle."-Abraham Lincoln
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | bourbon
In looking at your pics is see a spring on your hood latch. I don't remember one on mine and in checking out LMC and Chevy Duty I don't see one listed. What am I missing other than the spring?
~Jim
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old guy with old trucks
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 14 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 14 | | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | I plan on having my Bolt finished in time for the annual classic car show In Blanco the 3rd Saturday in May.
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 | | | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 14 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 14 | Sounds like we are on the same schedule Tango, sometimes it seems like I will never get to drive my truck again. It was a daily driver for about 20 years but has been dismantled now for about three years and I miss driving it. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 15 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 15 | Does anyone here in Houston,Tx Or Spring,Tx Know when the first Car n truck show For Nifty Fifties Is? | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | Check this schedule: Texas Shows Burnet Show
~Jim
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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: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 667 | Hey Joker...love the satin black on your rod. Just what I want for the fenders on my '46. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | thanks, I like da bus too
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: Apr 2012 Posts: 27 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 27 | Howdy y'all,
I'm in Sugar Land, and just recently purchased a 49 3100. Runs good, but I'm replacing the 4.11 with a 3.55 that came with it, hope to hook up with some of y'all in the future.
It's not the weight of the load, that breaks your back. It's how you carry it.
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