1937 chevy 1-1/2 ton project

1937 chevy 1-1/2 ton project.

I picked up this truck I was going to use for signage for my business, anyway one thing led to another & after getting this old bird home & a ton of PB & WD-40 oh and allot of frosty beverages shes up and running

now as you can see its pretty rough so I wanted to do another one so I picked up a cab & ch***is from a board member that bought a pristine tuck and parted it out oh well that's his business, anyway Ill be in need of some parts & was checking to see what parts are interchangeable for these trucks (year to year)
so the old COE & the 31 ford are on the back burner

 

That's not rough, but cool project

 

just a couple more pics

 

what was really cool is how the paint cleaned up with just some steel wool...

 

Late-36 thru 38 share most parts, then changed over in 39 to the 39-46 cabs.

 

pretty shweeet old hauler , in the great north east rustville that thing is nearly mint looking , cool project

 

one thing that was super cool was the dang thing sat for 20+ years & I take a tank & some fuel, run a line to the carb & jumped the starter with a 12 volt battery & the dang thing started up & ran as if it had been run the day before, the one picture of it stuck in the mud was after I got it started, of course I had to drive it, I went run'n around the o'l pond there & of course I knew it didn't have any brakes so drove it off into the mud to slow it down..

wooo whoo that was fun tho

 

Kind of ****s as only the '37's share the same parts as the '38's. Thats it. Then the '39-40's are the same and then the typical 41-46's and so on. The '36's are totally different trucks.

Not a big parts supply as there weren't too many sold in '37-38. Finding parts for either these years has proven to be quite a *****. Ebay and this forum have been pretty good though... you gotta keep checking though.


Cool project! Looks great so far!