Technical Stude Pickup Warehouse Find

Tucking the front bumper in a bit made a big difference to the appearance of the truck. It's well worth the little bit of work to takes to do it! I trimmed a bit off the bumper to get it closer with better results than these lousy pics show.

 

I like what you did.
I’m going to do the same bumper treatment that I used on my previous Stude. It was easy and looked pretty good. I don’t have a bumper of any kind so I’ll have to start looking again.

 

I got the fenders and the bottom of the grille repaired today. Next will be adding the new frame horns. It’s not perfect, there’s a lot of little hammer and dolly work to do on the grille but for now it’s roughed in ok. It was fun figuring out how to make the little patch parts. Not as much fun welding them up - the wind came up, of course.

 

Looks so much better.
I just scored a cheap, nice, '56 Chevy truck front bumper for mine that will replace the og. unit. Sometimes I wish I had the ability to leave stuff alone...

 

I think that’s what I put on the yellow Stude. A neighbor was moving and gave me all the junk he took off of his ‘56 Chevy pickup as he customized it. A bumper was in the pile. I assumed it came from his Chevy truck but maybe not. As I remember, I turned it upside down and pie cut the center just a bit. I intended to make a valance but never got around to it.
It was a fun truck. 454 big block, big Isky solid lifter cam, 3000 stall converter, 8 3/4 with a 3.91 posi. It was supposed to be my “driver’s training truck” as I built my AA/GS Willys pickup nostalgia gasser.

 

Yeah, that's the idea I had. It does look good on the yellow truck and I like that it extends outward to better protect the fenders.

 

I decided not to do the new frame horns until I have a bumper of some kind. So I put on some etching primer, then some build primer. I kinda like primer spots on old cars.
But looking through my paint cabinet, I found a rattle can of Indigo blue metallic paint left over from my color experiments on my roadster. So I went ahead and sprayed the area then left it to dry. Today I looked at it in the morning sun and it looked silly, too shiny and too much metallic. So I knocked the gloss off with a fine Scotchbrite pad and it worked, good enough for who it’s for….

I’ll probably clean the frame and shoot some chassis black on it so it disappears..

 

Uh, yes you do have a bumper