yay or nay on having stacks or stack on an old pickup. old as in early 60s to late 40's. reasons, pros, cons, pics. let me hear or see your answers.
No Stacks! Scews up the lines...You have to cut the running boards and the bed. Stacks are for big rigs.
Uneartly, I think the use of stacks at least in my mind completely depends on the build style of the truck. I would think that a hauler or hauler style of a build would look OK with them given that they are properly executed. For instance the stacks made out of a set of side pipes have a real '70s flare to them and are pretty much out of place on a traditional truck. A full on performance build or most customs would not look good with a stack. The operative word on customs is most here, I have seen exceptions. If you build your truck to look truckish even if it is lowered I believe that you could make them work. Stacks in the bed have obvious cons to them, they limit the use of the bed. They don't really work well on a slab sided truck run outside the bed but a step truck where you can tuck them in behind the cab is probably doable. Just opinion mind you and I certainly haven't elaborated much. maybe an elaboration is fodder for a different discussion. I think that the bottom line is you need to build your truck around the stacks and not let the stacks look like an afterthought.
i personally have no intention on doing it to my project truck. iv seen them here and there on old classic trucks, nothing serious like 4 foot chrome tubes sticking up over the cab. ive seen a early 40s chevy with square stock bed rails and the vertical ones behind the cab were the stacks but you would never know if you werent standing next to it. the only real stacks that seem to fit a good use was diesel cummins or power strokes on big pickups so they dont get smoke on the rear fender or at the mud drags and mud runs in this thread i want to see peoples answers with reasons, only because when i ask people why they have stacks on their trucks the common responses are because it looks good, it sounds cool, and my friends did it. thank you for your 2 cents.
If you start another thread about application be sure I know about it, I will try and dig out some pics of well executed stacks on trucks and give a decent explanation of the why and wherefore. It can be done and done well, but like I said I believe the folks that have pulled it off in the past built there truck with the stacks in mind. A lot of the things that we do we have to build the vehicle around the specific piece.
well im too young to know of that show, but a quick google search and a little reading, i will agree with you that those are nice "stacks".
with the correct build they look cool there is a guy in my town that has a old reo with stacks and i think it looks rad.
Oh there is another con that I failed to mention, they get full of water and snow then the bottoms rust out. If you don't have flippers on then like a semi you need to get a can the proper size to put over them when you park it for any length of time.
yes those work, but a friend had them on his pickup and they can get annoying with the constant "tinging" sitting in traffic or stop light. best bet would be to go with bent tips.
my old b john deere has a stack but i would never put stacks on a truck the part of this hobby that is so great is that we build what we want i do things to my rides that you may not want on yours
Around here it was usually truck drivers who had stacks on their dolled up pickup trucks in the 50's and early 60's. That went right along with a big pair of mud flaps on the back and all the extra chrome doo dads they could hang on the pickup along with a gear shift knob. out of a big truck. One of my classmates dad had one decked out like that.
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