I was gonna change the exhaust on my '33 pick up this winter. Thinking of tried and true bed rail pipe's. i have never even thought of stacks until i saw that full fendered one today on the pick up thread by wes.. it's got me thinking..i do like the look, and it is not as common as bed pipe's.. I'll probably mock it up both way's. we'll see. Rat......
Kustumizer, I think that little pick-up is badass and is what he was looking for with the post. If you look through your stack of little magazines it was real popular. It always cracks me up with the "if you dont do it this way its wrong" responses. Is he going to paint the truck?
Mixed feelings. They are OK on severely chopped & channeled, short ass'd trucks w/ huge engines...but only if the pipes are HUGE, like off a semi. This lends further to the whole cartoonish look. I think they look ridiculous on mild rods. That's just my opinion though.
They look cool! They didn't become "redneck" till they started to be put on 4x4s and mini trucks. Back in the 50's they were usually added at the time of the first oil change. Let it be said though. the "richest" guy on my block when I was a kid was the first to put them on his brand new '56 Custom Cab that he bought to tow his new Corvette powered Hallet ski boat so they might een be considered the "goldchainer" item of the day, or just universally accepted by everybody!. Problem with them is they are just one more thing to add to the lost if an ass, er, I mean cop desides to write an equipment violation book on you, at least here in Kullyforneeya; Vehicle Code Exhaust Pipes 27152. The exhaust gases from a motor vehicle shall not be directed to the side of the vehicle between 2 feet and 11 feet above the ground. Yea I know it's straight up and not to the side but it can still get you a ticket because its "on the side" of the truck. Then even if you beat it, which you probably won't it's the hassle of going to court etc. So If you're an outlaw through and through, ignore what I just said and go for it!
[ QUOTE ] Yeah, DRJ. ... he heh heh.....with that code in Cali, its a wonder you all don't see 12 foot stacks on pickups.... or would that be a Florida type thing? JT. [/ QUOTE ] I don't crack Florida jokes anymore, even if it's just for friendly fun. Nads is too sensitve and doesn't understand the satire of it...
VonT, remember, those who make fun of where you live are really just jealous - Be proud of the Hillbilly label, get in touch with your inner Redneck. If that don't help, just listen to some Jeff Foxworthy tapes! Later, Kinky6
The only different between you Southern rednecks & hillbillys and us Northern New England ones is that y'all talk funny.
I built many of them before exhaust benders exhisted, they were easy to make and too hook up on old pickups, I did them in electrical conduit brazed with reversed 45 degree cuts and a little alum paint and they were even cool in 1968 it was hard to handmake tailpipes but stacks were very simple
Stacks on pick-ups are for "'Billy Big Rig" wannabe's. Unless you're driving a Freightshaker or a Pete, they look stupid. Mart3406 ============================================
I was just thinking about these last night as I was watching a bunch of early lakes footage. About half of the push trucks (in the footage I saw) had them (early '50's). I also noticed what looked to be bed mounted engine hoists which I thought was cool. If I ever get the '56 F100 in my dreams, that Y- block will be singing through some stacks!
Cool old thread.... (almost 7 years old! ) I like the bed rail (belly burner?) pipes, done right on the right old pickup... if that makes sense at all? Malcolm
those "damn dodge lilred trucks" would outrun virtually anything made the year they came out! unfortunate exhaust just the same. see lots od diesel psuedo cowboys runnin em out here. good waste of bedspace but at least they look stupid.
You need an education son. Stacks can look awesome on the right truck, check out 50Fraud's old truck. Stacks were in vogue at some point in the 50's. I gotta go through my old mags and scan some pics.
Thank you! I was just scouring you tube trying to pull stills. We not talking about diesels and Lil' red express trucks people! Sorry, I get excited.
My 15 year old son just bought a 84 Ford 4x4 diesel pickup. Has a steal flatbed and a brushgaurd up front.He`s the happiest kid in town. YA, and a CHROME stack too. Am I happy, Yes- He can SCARE the HELL out those tunner guys- run right over those guys and not even scratch it.OH YA, Keep this quiet- my wife doesn`t know yet. Also it`s a way to piss off one of my neighbors, You know the perfect house with the perfect yard types. (they are a little noisy when started at 7:00 in the mornin). He takes his Grandma for rides(He only has a learners permit),she uses a 5-gallon bucket to get in. Imagine that--I own a ground scrapin Chevy. I`LL take stack pipes over ECHO cans any day of the week.
Generally I would rather have exhaust out the back but some trucks look really great with them . Retro Jim
They used to be cool... then every dumb hick with a "yeah, it's got a hemi" sticker put them on they're pick-up. Pisses me off everytime I see that!
The wheat farmers around here HAD to have stacks on there trucks so they wouldn't risk catching the fields on fire with hot exhaust......so there were a lot of farm kids on the Ave saturday nights with em'.
I think some of you guys are one tracking this thing to mean big rig looking monster sized covered chrome things. If you start looking at your old mags from the fifties, from about '54-'58 or so they were on just about every custom truck built. Usually they were made of around 2"stock and chrome plated. About 25 years ago I had a '41 ford truck with a small block ford, and I toyed with the idea of adding stacks to it. At the time I had a pair of NOS cal custom lakes pipes with about 18"of ripple section in them. The only reason I didn't do it was because the lakes were too long and I couldn't bring myself to cut and rechrome NOS pipes. But I think they would have looked great. I did much more recently make a pair of "belly burners"for my '42 Ford truck, And kept them when I sold it. They might see life yet on my '54 Chev truck..
Stacks were moderately common in the late '40s and '50s. I saw this truck featured in HRM in the '50s and loved it: ...so when I bought a '34 truck, it was an easy decision to me to run stacks similar to the one in the magazine. Some guys didn't like them, but I thought they made the truck. Thanks, Brudwich; I appreciate the support.
What Cactus1 and Need Louvers said. The question referred to old trucks. But where do you think the idea for them came from? The old days not something new. Lots of old timers had them when I was a kid. Told me to keep from knocking pipes and mufflers off on the high center crested dirt roads and in the oilfields. And so they could sleep in the trucks safer. Some for function and some did it for style.
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