Project "Sweet 16"

[skymangs]

Some more

[skymangs]

Some of our fellow AD friends.

[Low Elco]

Always a great time! Glad it went well!
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[RootBeer 6117]

Man that's cool maybe someday... Back in 98-99 I bought a 67 chevy long bed out of a soybean field in Fayette Mo and spent a yr. putting on disc brakes. v8, auto, tilt, posi and did nothing to all the rust, drove it a year and sold it to one of my regular customers for his son. His son worked in Booneville at a gas station on I-70. That year the 2001 power tour went through Mo. and stopped at that station, They took a picture of the parking lot of the station and there in the middle of all the cars was my old truck and every issue for the next year that picture was used for the power tour add, My all most claim to fame. I guess it was rat rod before that was a cool thing because the body never did get fixed the bed was rusted so bad you could see through it, but it ran good. Hope your son has his 15 minutes of fame.

[99 to Life]

congrats, sounds fun. I'd be interested to see more of that connies farm truck with the 55.1 series hood, looks very similar to that smittys truck. Loving all the AD trucks and patina rolling around.

[skymangs]

Thanks all. I got lot's more pics. I'm gonna have to upload them to photobucket and post a link (almost 500 total).

Connie's Farm was a 5.3L on a complete custom chassis. Smitty's was a 4.8L on an S10 Chassis, it actually belongs to Mr48chevybagged (on this forum). Both bagged, and both very well built trucks, way more high tech and get better mileage than my old 350!

[oldman3]

Chris, glad you guys had a good time, great pics, hope it shows up in the mag....Jim

[99 to Life]

I tried searching for that user name on here and nothing comes up. the search engine is just about useless on these forums. oh well, cool trucks. def like to see more flicks so let us know when you post them. How many miles did you guys end up driving? 1296?

[skymangs]

Yep, 1296 miles. I'll see if I can't find him on here. He has the bare metal panel truck as well.

edit: His handle is actually 48Chevbagged... my bad!

[dubie]

i absolutely love the way this truck turned out. And thanks for posting the pics from the run. There's some good looking trucks out there

[skymangs]

Originally Posted by dubie

i absolutely love the way this truck turned out. And thanks for posting the pics from the run. There's some good looking trucks out there

Thanks Tim... I'm a truckaholic too. In fact I just picked up a 33 Chevy 1.5 ton truck yesterday to start working on for a friend of mine!

[oldman3]

Whats the build for the 33 going to be???...Jim

[skymangs]

Jim, not 100% sure on the build direction yet. The owner can't seem to decide if he wants to restore, or modify it. The most I can get out of him is "I want it running". LMAO

He just bought the freshly rebuilt and running 216 from another friends 1950 5 window, and wants to drop that in place of the siezed 207 that's in his 33.

I'll post up some pics of this 33 later, it is in AMAZING shape! It'd actually be a damned shame to cut it up and rod it (coming from a hot rod guy this is a real statement!) On the other hand, mechanical brakes aren't too highway friendly either!

[skymangs]

Here's pics of this 33. Really well preserved old truck!

[oldman3]

That's one sweet looking truck, brings back memories of my 32 Chevy Sedan I had for 20 yrs. Here's a quick shot....Jim

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by oldman3

That's one sweet looking truck, brings back memories of my 32 Chevy Sedan I had for 20 yrs. Here's a quick shot....Jim

That is nice!

[mknittle]

If it were mine I would do a one ton dually resto-rod.

[rambler]

that truck is nice !

[skymangs]

Very nice Jim!

Well, direction decided. The 216 is in.

So it's going to be our own version of a "resto-mod". I had to do a little fab for the 216 to settle in nicely, so it is no longer "totally uncut".

Truck will be 216 powered, mid 50's farm truck 4 speed granny, open driveshaft, 2 speed rear end (hydraulic brakes added), and shortened fromt he 157" wheelbase down to the 131" wheelbase (a factory offered wheelbase for that year). Flat bed with staggered stake sides. This will be a LONG project, done is phases, since the owner is on a tight budget.

[oldman3]

Sounds like a plan...Jim

[stealth_weapons]

Hey Sarge, there is a car show in marshall on the 5th of October. here is the info http://www.marshallnews.com/classifieds/flyer/1191126 we registered already, doubt there will be a lot of others around but who knows.

[skymangs]

Thanks Stealth, we'll look into it. That may even be a free weekend for us!

[STOCKISH]

I love how this one turned out. Looks amazing.

[skymangs]

Thanks, we're pretty pleased with it. Hopefully my new one will turn out even nicer!

[oossuuu754]

Most of you know that Chris was injured very badly in a shop fire a couple weeks ago. I have set up a GoFundMe campaign to help Chris (AKA SKYMANGS, Ole Sarge) and his family with medical expenses. Please share this with as many people as possible. Chris was the first to help with any questions, lets see if we can help him out here: Chris Klapp, AKA: SKYMANGS, Ole Sarge