Hello All

Hey folks. I knew there had to be a place for this kind of stuff. I am excited to have found an online community to join, share with, and learn from.

About me? Hmm. Name's Damon, I live in Sacramento, CA with my wife and daughter. At some point I thought it would be a good idea to follow in my father's footsteps so I got married twice, did some time on a few submarines in the Navy, went into construction, and bought a hot rod that will likely give me fits regularly.

I picked up a 29 Chevy pickup a few months ago, and have been driving it daily and working on it as time and money allow. The cab has been stretched, it's on a Chevy Luv frame. Powered by a 305 with 350 Vortec heads, Edelbrock 500, Flowmasters, and a TH350. It had a hacked together bed on it when I brought it home, but I decided a flatbed would be better, so I built one.

When I first got it:





Flatbed frame welded and painted:



Much better:



And the gauge panel I am working on so I can show off the sick Autometer gauges:



That's what I have. Hope to meet some good people around here.

Welcome to the site.
Looks like a fun ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Start a build thread and post lots of pics

Welcome from the frozen north!

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Welcome for SoCal.
Nice ride [cl does your daughter work on it with you[S mine does and loves it
A build thread would be great and post all your pix, we love pix.

Welcome from Ky, sweet looking truck!

Welcome from Rhode Island

welcome to RRR from lower Alabama .. I have a 30 chevy truck myself . I understand the stretching the cab .. my knees are touching the dash and im only 5'11

Yankee Transplant said:

welcome to RRR from lower Alabama .. I have a 30 chevy truck myself . I understand the stretching the cab .. my knees are touching the dash and im only 5'11

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It's still tight getting in and out with the tilt column. But I didn't start on this journey expecting comfort from a truck that can give you splinters opening the door!

soltz said:

Welcome for SoCal.
Nice ride [cl does your daughter work on it with you[S mine does and loves it
A build thread would be great and post all your pix, we love pix.

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She does help, and it is awesome. She refers to it as "her truck" so I figured she better learn how to wrench a bit.

Maybe she'll take her drivers exam in a rat rod.

Welcome from Flawda!

Welcome to RRR from northern Alberta. Each of my two daughters have put their name on one of my cars; what's a Dad to do?
Nice truck.

MercuryMac said:

Welcome to RRR from northern Alberta. Each of my two daughters have put their name on one of my cars; what's a Dad to do?
Nice truck.

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Well, with anything coming out of my garage I suppose this Dad makes sure she can make an on the fly repair and enroll her in AAA just in case.

welcome to rrr, from bama.

Maybe she'll take her drivers exam in a rat rod.[/QUOTE]

Ratters are supposed to have a license
Welcome from Northern Michigan

Welcome to RRR! I really like the flat bed. Ever though about stake pockets so you can run side boards?

Welcome from New Mexico. Glad you're here.
Nice little truck and I like seeing the younger generation show interest in our pass time/passion.

I-R-POPS said:

Welcome from New Mexico. Glad you're here.
Nice little truck and I like seeing the younger generation show interest in our pass time/passion.

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Thanks. Happy to be considered young at 41. My old man lived beater hot rods his whole life. 37 Ford, 46 Chevy long bed, 50 Chevy 1/2 ton. Swapped in a Nova front end or two.

I've some work to do on my rig, but not much. I might get around to matching primer at some point. Maybe I'll go hot rod black. Who knows and I don't care much. It runs like a champ, gets 11mpg, & is loud. It's what I like.

Sam_Fear said:

Welcome to RRR! I really like the flat bed. Ever though about stake pockets so you can run side boards?

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Thank you. The flatbed was quite a process. My old man is a better fabricator than I am and I was glad to have him visit for the build. Could not have done it without him.

He has a thing in mind for the stake sides, and asked if I could wait until June when I go out to his place for the annual car show/BBQ. If he has something in mind, it will wait until then. But yeah, that's on my mind.