32-34 pickups chaneled to running boards

I have the Hot Rod issue that car was featured in. Another real knockout. They just dont build 'em like they used to.

 

Taxas Speed's has the bed channeled too. Is the cab seconed aswell?

 

Great look!
I cant believe its not done more often.

 

Yeah, it's sectioned too. It's not my truck by any means.. But a fella can dream, can't he?

 

According to Rods and Customs by Bo Bertilsson (the book, not the magazine), Gary "Chop-It" Fioto channeled the body 6 inches, sectioned it 8 inches, and chopped it 7 inches in the front and 6 in the rear to get the proportions you see in the picture I posted.

 

I would bet because they are so flipping small inside...

 

Here's the ***guys (Gl***guy) old p/u...pic stole from another thread.

Ya just gotta love it!

 

I went nuts for Roger Simonatti's truck when I saw it in HRM around 1956:



Roger's truck inspired me to do this '34 about 45 years later. Keith Tardel, who built mine, talked me out of channeling it for reasons of space and comfort; I'm glad he did because it was plenty cramped even in stock form:

 

here are a few photos from my buddys 34...i did the bodywork and paint,chopping the fenders and stuff...

 

...and a few more..

 

Wow! This is a great thread! COOL pic's, guy's!

 

Chopped fenders? Looks very nice..Thanks

 

here's mine back in the day when my dad first put it on the road about 1974/75. it's undergoing full rebuild now.