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This is an awesome site! I have been reading all the posts on here and I am ready to post my truck for you guys to check out!I have some brake work and some other odds and ends to do to it.

http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm232/frankenblaster/57%20chevy%20ramp%20truck/

Welcome to the Stovebolt1

Nice truck, what do you haul?

Mike B

Thanks for the welcome,You have some nice trucks,I will haul my 55 chevy to some car shows,and some projects I pick up here and there.

Original 2 speed rear or did you change it ?

I like your truck. How fast will it cruise
at. I have a 57 lcf that I want to put
a rollback on. Welcome.

It still has the 2 speed in it

I havent had it on the road yet because of the brakes but based on what I have read on here I think 50-60 mph.Your truck would cool to see as a rollback

Nice truck. I don't have a deck on mine yet, and I was thinking beavertail.

nice truck is it a 6400 or 6500?

The 2-speed in the '57 has a high gear ratio of 6.40:1 (low is 8.72:1). If you have 9.00x22.5 tires they are about 35" tall so your speeds will be as follows;

at 2000 rpm = 32 mph

at 3000 rpm = 48 mph

at 4000 rpm = 65 mph


If you have 10.00x22.5 tires they are about 39" tall so your speeds will be as follows;

at 2000 rpm = 36 mph

at 3000 rpm = 54 mph

at 4000 rpm = 72 mph


This calculater doesn't care how many cylinders or how much HP you have, it's all about RPM.

My 1956 Tow Truck with a 350 sbc and a 2-speed runs 65 mph all day long.

Hope this helps.

Mike B

Your truck looks like its ready for the beavertail..nice truck..

Thanks... its a 6400

Thanks Mike that helps alot,Good to know that I can cruise.

Thanks for the chart Mike, I assume you have 10:00s on your 56 tow truck and that you are
running about 3500 rpm at 65 mph. A little off subject but did you ever visit that big
salvage yard and what were the results?

Yes, I run 10.00x22.5's on my tow truck.

I've been to a lot of junk yards in the past 8 weeks. I haven't been back to Greens in NC (was there 5-6 years ago).

I didn't see any LCF trucks. I did score (2) SM-420 PTO's, an accessory Hi Tone horn for the 1955-56 trucks and a genuine Budd lug wrench. I also got the 55-59 Suburban gas tank wedges I needed to hang that tank on my '56 3100 pickup project.

Mike B

This is what someone recently said about Green's on the ATHS site,
"all of the old stuff at greens is gone... cleaned up all the yards just got one site still operating with late model stuff in it....".

I'd like to see the picture!!!!! Thanks

The link worked for me on the second try...

Mike B

sorry guys somehow I had it set up for private view,It should work fine now.Those pics are when I first picked it up, I have done a few things to the truck since,I will have to get some new pics up..

Dave

57chevy2ton! WELCOME!! "Tater's got a younger brother!! I like the chrome bumper and mirrors! my grille and mirrors are beige,and now I have the cab lights installed.but that shade of maroon has got to be about as close as you can get,without goin' to a paint store! Check-out my pic's and video's in "Photobucket"! thanks for joining!!

Thanks for the welcome,Your truck and mine do look like brothers!! Nice truck!!!