Me too. My dad was a trucker for 40 years, we lost him in '07 and I'm pretty sure I'm going to run a set on my pickup in tribute to the 'ol man
Babe Royer's famous Full Custom F1 (Babe's Muffler Service, San Jose, CA) had stacks since 1953, when the truck was first finished. He changed it over to bed rails ("belly burners") in '55, I asked "Why?" Babe said it was the 'newest thing', and bed rail pipes would be on everything...he was right. My '55 F100 was an old semi-custom when I got it (1972) I am 3rd owner; the 30-year old seller got it from his Dad, who bought it new. When straightening the running boards, I discovered holes that had been welded up from a set of stacks that were installed back when. But the only way I'd do stacks is like someone else stated: "They have to come out of the apron, and turn up straight; Not thru the running boards!" Stacks were a valid custom touch in the '50s.
Mike I was just looking at an article in the new TRJ about bailon and showed a pic of a '55 Chevy custom (car turned pickup) with stacks. I believe it was at the Oakland Show in '58 if I recall. I doubt the car was ever driven as the stacks poked up through the naugahyde bed cover but it was sporting stacks.
I have one 4" stack on my pickup but my truck is big truck inspired (sorta) as I sell big truck parts for a living.
Why can't guys with big trucks and small dicks at least have normal sized brains? Stacks are retarded hillbilly shit and should be hated. - Sorry, thats just my opinion. Stacks are just as cool as "truck nuts", which if you see one, then you see the other. Pretty much on EVERY single Dodge diesel pickup ever made. I love the black smoke and the "donk" rims with mud tires that are on the same trucks. Just awesome.
They are mostly seen on rat rods with fang grilled, steel mohawked, chicken wired windshield, dually semi truck tired, mailbox air clearnered, galvanized steel floored pieces of poop!!
Guy around here has a Chevy 3/4 ton diesel truck with stacks that are at least 12" diameter sticking up through the bed. We discussed this at great length and the conclusion is he must have a 1" long pee-pee.
Two years later and I will still say "the stacks" look like added on penis' (there are two, so maybe "peniy"). Think how clean this truck would look without that garbage!
Mike, I went to school with a kid that ran stacks on his '57 Big window chevy, they did stick above the cab and he made them from scavenger pipes. They looked pretty slick but you could not hear yourself think in the cab. We used to stick stuff in them to watch it launch when he fired it.
Normally not my thing, but I remember seeing a pic in a fifties Hot Rod of a '30/'31 A pickup with a bobbed box and stacks with slash cut stacks, similar to the black pu above. B&W photo of course, but I would guess it was probably white, light blue or yellow. It actually looked pretty good. I'll see if I can dredge it up and post it. It was done alot "back in the day", I remember seeing it a lot locally, but then, there were a lot of hillbillies around here when I was a kid, so you can take that for what its worth...
Bingo. Its AMAZING how much 100% traditional stuff gets dissed on here by all the neo-traditional street rodders that hang out here. Not even sure I would sign up for this one, but it can look dead-nuts period correct if done right. 50fraud's deal is really starting to grow on me. Damn good looking truck, and I think the stacks really add something.
See post #60. It's a deuce, with A rear fenders & bed, but I believe it's the truck you were thinking of. It was actually the inspiration for the stacks on mine.
Well, my penii were bigger than yours, then. An unexpected side effect of the stacks was that they offset the long '34 bed, which I would have wanted bobbed if I hadn't used the pipes.
Nah, not old enough to be traditional, it's just an old thread Just like many of these cars are not Traditional, just old cars, and you know what they say "Just cuz it's old, don't make it cool"
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