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Here is my 47,a 10 year learning experience

 

My other truck - the one that's more fun

 

My F100 still in the building stage.






Drewski

 

Here is the 34 I'm working on. It started out big, but is getting smaller.

 

Nice looking truck my friend has one of these along with a three more 40's farm trucks sitting in a barn.

The roofs are semi caved in from many years of hard work are the roofs still fixable

 

Here's an update for mine. Just finished the 59 Impala dash install!

 

34 ford, 502 chevy for power

 

little progress on mine, getting closer

 

Man! That dash looks just tits!!

 

X2; really a nice fit. Looks o.e.m.!

 

That one does it for me to!!!!

 

here a pic of my dads 54 chevy truck he is working on

 

here's mine i dont think its in this thread yet.

it's a 62 f100 unibody with a 223 and a 3 speed on the column

pretty much the same as when i bought it except for the wheels and tires

 

392 Hemi with 6x2's, 6" chop, bed shortened 9" pinched duece rails.

 

Your dad's truck is killer down to the hubcaps. It is 100% kickass. One question, why three fog lights and two rear view mirrors on the driver side? Just wonderin'. Oh, and did I mention, I love that truck.

 

Hey 1 more mine

 

The second mirror on the top of the door is what's known as a passing mirror. They were supposed to allow the driver to see forward around the car ahead of you, and made driving on the old two lane highways safer. This way, you could see if there were any cars coming from the opposite direction before you swung out to pass the car in front of you. The owner of this truck has managed to find some fun rare stuff to dress up his truck.

Most guys building bombs always like to run all the rare accessories they can. There used to be an option through about '48 (on Chevy cars) just before the new bodied '49s came out, and up until the new bodied mid '55 Chevy trucks came out, called a passing light. They were usually much bigger diameter than foglights and were usually a "regular" bulb, similar to a headlight, only brighter, more like a hi beam.

If you had a passing light on your car, when you would pass another vehicle on the old two lane highways, you would turn on this light to warn oncoming drivers that you were passing another car and you are in their lane.

The third light on juanz1947's Dad's truck isn't quite as big as alot of passing lights I've seen, but I'm guessing that's what he is doing with the extra light.

I've included a picture of a '39 with a passing light for comparison.

BTW terd ferguson, you're right, this truck is killer. A bomb style pick-up is on my list of must haves one day before I leave this world...............E

 

A buddy has a passing mirror on his Kustom '53 Merc, a one piece deal. The pic was kind of blurry on this truck, I thought there was one mirror up top and one down low, to be used together somehow. But after staring at it and after your post, I think I see the top is the one piece passing mirror like you described and like on my buddy's car with another seperate mirror down low for looking behind you.

And thanks for the info on the passing light. That was something I didn't know about, but makes perfect sense. Were the fog and passing lights tagged like the GM tagged Unity spotlights? Or were they all just plain Guide lights (or another manufacturer)? Just curious, I admit I don't know a whole bunch about them.

And I love and respect the bomb guys with their endless hunt for that one last perfect accessory. Thousand dollar compasses and tissue dispensors and what not. They sure did make some cool accessories way back.

I'm really digging this bomba AD with less than shiny paint. It seems they're always some two tone shiny brown with wire wheels. This one is a little different from the norm, I love everything about it. I have a TF truck, if I had an AD I'd want it to look just like that one (minus the swamp cooler).

 

My project. 1947 Studebaker M-15 one-ton. Help!!!! I need parts.
email affpltd@aol.com (S. Oregon)
Regards,
Alan

 

WOuld I be that friend??? It's a '52 by the way!

 

Yes, yes you would. My fault about the '53 slip up. Loved you roadster show pics, by the way.

 

this is my 1936 chevy bobber in process

 

This RULES ...

 

does it for me too...

this is Bob's truck... he bought it from Bob.... I'd change my name to Bob, if Bob'd sell it to me.

 

Simply Awesome...

 

a few random ones

 

thanks homie for explaining to him it just a passing light but i dad took it off just trying it out see if he like it but he just got to og guide fog light, his truck is complete take apart