Topic: Lighting the fire on the back burner build '53 (Read 12292 times)

Greybeards Customs · « **on:** January 23, 2013, 07:41:06 AM »

This truck has a rich deep family history and many fond memories for me . I purchased this truck when I was fourteen years old and this year I turn 50 , so it is time to get the wheels rolling again . I will never forget when my dad found the add in the news paper , it was all I could think about . I was working at a gas station on saturdays and he came to pick me up from work in it , I almost died . I wasn't even old enough for a learners permit so I climbed in the passengers seat and assumed the position of my elbow hanging out the window the way it should be , life was great ! My dad helped me with all the usual stuff on the truck , we found a set of rims for it and had it painted and I drove it all through high school .
As I grew older my tastes changed and I bought a camaro and then a nova and did the regular hot rod thing , you know street racing and that sort of stuff . Well the the old '53 just sat in the driveway and started to crumble so we pulled it with a chain to my grandparents barn where it stayed for about the next 20 years or so . After my grandparents passed the barn was getting in poor shape and I didn't want the barn to cave in on the truck so I had it towed to my shop where we took it apart about five or six years ago and I worked on it off and on for a year or so . Then the Rat Rod bug bit me and I stopped working on the truck again for the last four years . My dad always rides with me to all of the shows and cruise-ins and we have made the desision to get this truck standing tall again for him to drive to all the shows .
I really wished that I had taken pictures of the truck when we started on it , but I didn't , the first pictures start as the new chassis comes back from the sand blasters and we are coating it with por15 . The frame is a front sub from a '75 nova and the rear rails I built from 2x4 3/16" square tubing .

Oh yeh , I almost forgot here is a picture of My cool dude Dad sporting his Greybeards shirt at the redneck rumble last fall .

zpi28 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2013, 11:01:48 AM »

Thats an awesome history on the truck. Your dad dont look old enough to have kids your age.

Dustin Arnett · « **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2013, 11:07:13 AM »

Awesome!! I'm looking forward to seeing where you go with this bad boy...... Also, very cool story. Thanks for sharing..

~Dustin

Greybeards Customs · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2013, 11:12:27 AM »

Quote from: zpi28 on January 23, 2013, 11:01:48 AM

Thats an awesome history on the truck. Your dad dont look old enough to have kids your age.

Thanks man , today is his 75th birthday , that's part of whats got us rolling on this truck again .

chopper york · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2013, 11:36:18 AM »

Great story there,keep it coming

lowboy · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2013, 03:07:55 PM »

wow thats cool my dads knees are so bad he cant even get in his stock model a any more but we take his truck when we go anywhere and thats ok he foots the bill lol

glad you shared that story keep up your top notch work

hotwheels · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2013, 06:39:43 PM »

That is looking awesome........

RangerRat · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2013, 06:46:19 PM »

Cool build looking forward to see pics as you make progress

obama · « **Reply #8 on:** January 23, 2013, 07:20:47 PM »

Great story Greybeard, just started again on a old project myself. Your lucky, my dad was never into cars. By the way I used por 15 on my frame about a week ago, and my hands are still black.

Greybeards Customs · « **Reply #9 on:** January 23, 2013, 09:03:03 PM »

Quote from: obama on January 23, 2013, 07:20:47 PM

Great story Greybeard, just started again on a old project myself. Your lucky, my dad was never into cars. By the way I used por 15 on my frame about a week ago, and my hands are still black.

That's why they make latex hand condoms , it just doesn't feel the same though.

coony278 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 24, 2013, 05:39:41 AM »

Wow great story ! cant wait to see the truck come together!

hotwheels · « **Reply #11 on:** January 24, 2013, 05:47:41 AM »

Heck, i'm not sure how i missed that, but happy 75th to your dad man..........that is awesome

Greybeards Customs · « **Reply #12 on:** January 24, 2013, 07:03:35 AM »

Thanks Doug , I will relay the message .

Rev tex deville · « **Reply #13 on:** January 24, 2013, 08:11:27 PM »

well i glad to see ya on this i was think youd forget about it and i would get it!!LOL

Greybeards Customs · « **Reply #14 on:** January 24, 2013, 09:00:54 PM »

I have had this truck for 35 years , I guess I will have to keep it . sorry Tex

hotwheels · « **Reply #15 on:** January 25, 2013, 06:56:47 AM »

damn, that's along time to own 1 vehicle.....I thought i was bad.

Greybeards Customs · « **Reply #16 on:** January 25, 2013, 07:06:31 AM »

It wasn't eating anything , so why not keep it .

Rust T Nuts · « **Reply #17 on:** January 25, 2013, 07:29:20 AM »

Nice project indeed

Greybeards Customs · « **Reply #18 on:** January 28, 2013, 04:41:07 PM »

This truck will be a "finished " build . I will be doing and have done tons of body work , I had the entire body sand blasted and put the usual stuff like cab corners and all that in . The frame is a '75 nova front sub with homemade rear rails grafted into place . It will be an air ride suspension . Nothing fancy , no 4 corners just front and rear up and down . I have over the last few years purchased a stack of parts for it , grille , bumpers and all the door latch mechanisms . We will be going with the hot rod flatz low gloss paint eventually .

hotwheels · « **Reply #19 on:** January 28, 2013, 05:32:08 PM »

Wow, that looks amazing........

Dustin Arnett · « **Reply #20 on:** January 28, 2013, 06:58:46 PM »

Lookin good!!

~Dustin

zpi28 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 28, 2013, 06:59:54 PM »

That is looking awesome, nice sealer on that firewall. The frame looks really nice.

Greybeards Customs · « **Reply #22 on:** January 28, 2013, 07:09:22 PM »

Quote from: zpi28 on January 28, 2013, 06:59:54 PM

That is looking awesome, nice sealer on that firewall. The frame looks really nice.

Thanks I must have welded up 35 holes in the firewall , just trying to neaten it up a bit . Unlike my model A that still has the axe mark in it , by the way it made a great access hole for the speedo cable and throttle cable and coil wire and anything else I can stick through it .

obama · « **Reply #23 on:** January 28, 2013, 08:36:12 PM »

You be get'n right with it on this, good job.

zpi28 · « **Reply #24 on:** January 29, 2013, 12:17:00 AM »

Looking at the picture I believe there may be some holes in the corner for some Vintage Air.

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