Hey all! Just saying hi from Boise, Idaho here. I'm another young guy carrying that hot rod and Custom car torch to keep this hobby alive and well! Here's one of my crates, my pride and joy;
Eh. These guys can try and bust my balls all they want. Us young guys are the future of this hobby, and without us, it would eventually die off and go to the rice grinder and mini truck queers. Not to mention the hopped up diesel truck castoffs.
i,am an old dude 42. been building bikes and rods for a living since 83 . but your right you young guys are doing it right man keep it up
minitrucker what ?!....your trying to defend yourself before the blows right ? so why come out swinging ?
I can't believe it Macaroni! You got it right!!! I think you're the fifth person to get the year right in the seven years I've had that truck!
Well, I took the front suspension, rear airbags, and new motor out of that truck and used it to build this:
I ended up getting this truck for free as a finder's fee for another truck. It's only had one owner who used it only to carry a camper in the summer and was last registered in 1978. I got it with just under 45,000 miles on the clock. Everything works perfectly and that is still the factory paint on it. I backhalfed the frame and built a two link with the 'bags at a 2:1 ratio with a telescoping wishbone. The front is Z'd three inches and the crossmember is fabricated and wears tubular upper A-arms and dropped stockers on the bottom. It gets somewhere around 16 inches of lift. All of the other crossmembers were removed and I built new ones and also boxed the frame. I had a ton of stuff laying around and only ended up about $160 in this truck after buying some steel. I also built it in only 15 days, but don't get the wrong idea, it is far from a hackjob!!!! I simply wanted to see how quickly I could do this. I don't enjoy ****ed up **** and I am very **** about engineering and aesthetics! I only got 17 hours of sleep to do it and i tell you, I will NEVER try that again! Now I am gathering parts again for the '62. It got sideswiped twice in two weeks last summer. I am also going to build a full ch***is and sheetmetal interior with '62 T-bird bucket seats. Think early '60's show kustom.
This is the '62 before I pirated all the parts off of it. And also a pic of the rear suspension of that truck to give an idea of the telescoping wishbones I biuld for my two links. That truck used the stock control arms out back. The GMC is all fabbed stuff.
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