The Stovebolt Site Forums Welcome! Welcome Centre My '55 2nd series 3100

OK, I'll try to link to a pic of my TF. I got it back in August and have been working on it ever since. It was driveable when I got it, just! Brakes, steering, electrical, bodywork and paint I have done. A new set of tires, and sprucing up the inside of the cab have been projects of late. I'm out here in sunny Calif., so plenty of nice days to work on the old truck. It is a old school hotrod, has a Pontiac 400 with Muncie 4 speedPhotobucket

Two thumbs up on that one capnduane......good job.

Great looking rig capnduane! I am addicted to those swb 55 to 59 trucks. Sounds like you need a few of those old timey tubes for your stock radio! are they still available? I have had my '57 3100 since 1970 & hope to have it back on the road within a year or so. Keep up the good work & keep that old iron rolling!

Ya, I prefer the small back window also, gives me a little privacy! But a little tougher to spot those little cars in the blind spot.... I had planned to take the radio to a repair shop and get it singing, it was just setting in a box in my office, so I stuck it in the dash, sure like the looks. I think it might need a OZ4, I think the vibrator is ok? This truck has been quite a effort, nearly all systems were horsed up, bolts stripped, rounded off or missing... But bringing it back has been very pleasurable, and the thumbs up and looks (and offers to buy) occur most everytime I take it out on the road. Thanks for the kind words, Guys.

nice truck, looks like a hopped up redryder,

welcome to the bolt, enjoy the ride my friend..

thanks for the pm, that was really kind of you..

Thanks joker, I am enjoying the old '55 hotrod. Working on it, making it better. Every little thing I do, the truck responds with better handleing and performance. I have been calling my truck Red Ryder, and then discovered, when I joined this forum, that you have a '52 with the same name. I felt that you had been using that name much longer than I, so I contacted you, to get your opinion on using it for my truck. I thought of other names on the "Red" theme, such as Red Roller, Red Ranger, Rad Ryder, etc... But they just don't sing like our old hero's moniker. So With all respect to your '52 Redryder, my '55 will be Red Ryder! Probably quite a few other red trucks with this name as well?

not on the bolt that I know off, no problem with the name, one could always change the spelling,, redrider.. lol
redryder is also in my email..lol

the main thing is just drive it..
take care my friend