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Posted: March 27 2008 09:32 PM
 
karl gunderson (aka Gundie) [ View ] [ Email ] [ Car Ads ] [ Blogs ]
Upsala, Minnesota
 
we got the cab off and now time for fixing some swiss cheese problems in the floor and corners


my dad still wants me do to a total original restoration and i'm not sure what i want to to yet because i want a bad A@@ ride but original might be a little easier and cheaper but original trucks just aren't that cool to me
 
 
 
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Posted by DavyJ  -  03/27/2008 10:06 PM
Since it is your first attempt at a whole vehicle, keep it as simple as possible. The success rate will be higher and then you can work up to another project with confidence. That truck will look just as nice with a few small mods. If the drivetrain works and you aren't bucks up, just do a real good clean and re gasket job, new points, condenser and plugs and wires.Concentrate on safety and cleanliness instead of trying to build an all out custom. you have a nice truck and you will feel good whenever you drive it,either rodded or restored.
The Tulips are up, I'm ready to cruise. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Niagara Falls, Canada Charter Member since February 2005
 
Posted by dixie  -  03/27/2008 11:40 PM
I'M WITH YOU STREETROD IT, STOCKERS ARE NICE BUT NOT MY THING.
jim grace [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] dade city, Florida Charter Member since January 2006
 
Posted by whipsold39  -  03/28/2008 12:10 AM
Either way you go it can get expensive. If it was mine I would street rod it because if you decide to sell it you have a better chance of getting your money back. I don't know your age or your DADS age but try to find some one with a stock vehicle and a street rod of the same year and take a ride with them and then decide. I think your dad would like the rod. Just my opinion.
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Posted by roofcam34  -  03/28/2008 01:00 AM
We have to respect our dads, but who is going to drive it, you or him? Think it through pretty good first, so you don't regret the decision later.
Roofcam [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Sioux City, Iowa
 
Posted by Gundie  -  03/28/2008 10:49 PM
i'm 18 and my dad is 51, we know some one with a 49 chevy sitting on a 4x4 frame with a 350 in it. never riden in it, its cool and all but not my style. theres not to many people in centeral minn. that have old hotrods that i know off. everybody has a jacked up mudd truck or a bunch of fourwheelers. i'm kinda by myself with hotrodding in my little town, but thats alright i like to stand out and be different
Gundie [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Upsala, Minnesota
 
Posted by jimmothershead  -  03/29/2008 10:20 AM
'50 Chevy hardtop, six cylinder. Couldn't handle the stocker so split the manifold....Porter steel packs...nice rap & pop. Need more poop. Went to a 292 Jimmy, nah. Hello 283....never looked back > July 1958.

My Dad told me the same thing......He wore a zoot suit, I wore peg pants and a Mr. B (Billy Exstine) shirt. Dad liked Frank Sinatra, I liked Fats Domino and Bill Haley. His treads were penny loafers, mine , snap top boomers with 1" crepe soles.

Gotta respect your Dad, but...............

Jim said it.
Jim [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Huntingtown, Maryland
 
Posted by ol bear  -  03/29/2008 10:46 AM
JIM U MENTIONED ABOUT SHOES !!!!! REMEMBER THE OLD FLAPJACK SHOES??????,,OL BEAR
OL BEAR [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] crown point, Indiana
 
Posted by roofcam34  -  03/30/2008 01:13 AM
Shoes? You guys had shoes??
Roofcam [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Sioux City, Iowa
 
Posted by grant6s  -  03/30/2008 07:31 PM
I had a pair of "snap jack" shoes. Couldn't wear em out, had to out grow them.
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Posted by Gundie  -  04/01/2008 10:44 AM
if i run about 80 pounds psi and sand blast my cab it shouldn't hurt it should it
Gundie [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Upsala, Minnesota
 
Posted by brian41chevy  -  04/01/2008 11:04 AM
Talk to Shine about blasting. He can give you some advice.
There is a fine line between hobby and mental illness [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] New Lenox, Illinois Charter Member since November 2004
 
Posted by Gundie  -  04/01/2008 11:21 AM
i'm in school right now so after i get out i'll look again
Gundie [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Upsala, Minnesota
 
Posted by Brickman  -  04/01/2008 12:11 PM
I believe that Dad may just want you to keep it simple, but for resale streetrod will sell higher than the stocker sometimes 5 to 1. DavyJ is on to something, make it pretty with nice paint and some wheels and get it running and drive it for a while. You can always do anything you want. The hard part is getting the body looking good IMHO.
80 pounds won't hurt anything.
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