56 Chev Pick Up

[roddguy1]

I have a short little build for you guys. This truck is called nasty business, and is owned by a friend of mine who brought this truck up from Tennessee. The idea behind this truck was to leave the outside ruff and update the chassis and drive line. The truck started life with a 235 inline six and 3 speed on the tree. It now sports a very healthy 454/700r4 with a 12 bolt posi rear. The chassis is the original frame, boxed and notched at the rear with Mustang ll based front suspension and four link rear. All this landed it with about a 5 inch ground clearance.

My part in this project was to handle all the metal work. for as nice as it was the bottom 8 inches of this thing was shot requiring new lower cab corners, rockers and step sills, and A pillars. The bottoms of the front fenders were also ruff and I smoothed the firewall. Fire wall and floor were painted up nice and the chassis was detailed and painted as well.

 

[roddguy1]

Now for some pictures.

He wanted all the metal work to be finished out with no filler, and then the new panels would be rattle can painted and distressed to mimic the rest of the truck.

 

[roddguy1]

Rebuilding the cab was rather involved and you can see the bottom was very ruff. It's so nice that these panels are available to do this. Otherwise a build like this just wouldn't happen in most cases. I will warn anyone that may attempt a similar job that you will need to massage these panels to fit as they're not perfect and you absolutely to have to brace the cab before you cut anything out.

 

[roddguy1]

More of the cab.
Now for some reason I didn't take a whole lot of pics of this build and in fact didn't take any of the box rebuild, but I think you guys can get the jist of it from what I do have.

 

[roddguy1]

Getting close to finished.

 

[Torchie]

All my builds are called "Nasty Business"
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Torchie.