on a side note, I only know one guy with stacks on a pickup. He lives about 10 miles from me and has an 81 chev. Blue shortbox stepside. 454 and 5 inch stacks ripped off of a western star semi tractor. Loud as hell and sounds decent, and best of all he beats the SHIT outta the truck, gotta love them guys.
Friend has late model Dodge diesel 3/4 ton PU with chrome stacks. Big stout dude, heard stories about him lifting corner of small truck while owner changed tires. He operates heavy equipment in a power plant strip mine, runs a dump truck as side job. Heard every truck he has ever owned had stacks. His truck looks cool, sounds cool. Maybe because he is such a big stout dude.
someone on the board has posted a pick of an A or Deuce shop truck with stacks... really dig it. I like 'em, as long as they dont look like they belong on a semi...
I remember seeing a red oxide primer 58/9 chevy fleetside with the 2" chrome stacks at several No.Cal car shows, looked rel nice, sounded good with the 235 and fentons. The next truck I get WILL have them. -Jesse
It took me a little while to warm to the idea, but now I dig the shit out of them. I'll have'em on there before the LSR.
My 36 will have 'em. I want to hear that hemi roar right behind my head. My dad would have had them on our family 41 chevy pickup but us kids rode in the back. Mom wouldn't put up with little blistered hands and fingers. I'm thinkin of using a pair of Cyclone Purple Hornies, mounted verticly and painted flat black...This is just a quickue lind drarwing but I wanted to get a picture of what they'd look like....I'm planning to use them.
When I was a kid every tow truck had them and then it seemed they were everywhere. When they started growing in size and looking like a Peterbuilt they looked plain stupid. Many were phonies or single exhaust. Diesel flappers were for rednecks Just like lake pipes, too much of a cool thing turned people off. Today lakes are back in (maybe too much) and Ive seen (is modest the correct word?) stacks on several 50's trucks. I might even put some on the 54 F350 next year. When the gold chainers pick up on them or it becomes a fad for ricer trucks it will be time to go back to the shorty turn downs just past the cab.
I like the one they call "Belly Burners" They come up halfway on the cab and then turn toward the rear and run along the bed rail. Rocky the rendering looks cool. I remember Purple Hornies use to be THE mufler. I had a set on a camaro baack in '75. Can you still buy them? They really KICKED ASS!
Why sheeeuuuhhtt, my lil' ol' Dodge pickem-up dun come from da deeler wit them thar pipes on it. Look jus like one a dem big rigs. Back in 1978 you wuddn't cool unless you had you wun a dem dare Dodge Lil Red Express trux and a CB radio to call yer kinfolk on! Still got 'er tuday...been had me six wives, but only ONE truk...and it still gots da stacks! -Skeeter McGraw
Friend has late model Dodge diesel 3/4 ton PU with chrome stacks. thats all the rage around here now with the farmer set.. big dodge diesels with huge ass chrome stacks coming up through the bed...most have two stacks,but a few have only one... ...we have a joke saying " the difference between the guys with one stack and two is the number of acres he owns"
i think stacks look kool if done right.in my opinon they should have some sort of turn out at the ends,not just straight,besides, thats gotta play hell on the pipes if the truck has to sit out side.of coarse some one could get crazy and do something creative like runnen them with a turn out and maybe a 4or6" megaphone on the end,you know somethin to let em know your commin thru....hey curly,how about it?
[ QUOTE ] no...just plain no.....they are not for normal people [/ QUOTE ] Well that explains why I want to run 'em on my '28 PU. I have some true hillbilly blood runnin' through my veins and never liked stacks on anything other than a rig or a tractor...until I saw some of the pics of tastefully done stacks on some of the custom trucks on this board. I also kinda dig the ones that run along the side of the just under the top rail. I'm having a hard time deciding between turn outs at the top or a set of flappers
It wasn't just trucks. Check out the woodie.....not me though. The Thrush side pipes stood on end with the chrome expanded metal heat shields from the 70's killed it for me. I can get into belly burners or the ones on the black 34 p/u.
If you do like em, this may be a cheap way to go (as I don't know the cost of real ones) Get some tube bed runners for late model picups at a swap meet. Cut one end flat, and cut the mounting bracket off the other end, stick em through the running boards and weld em on.
We had twin side-by-side stacks up the back of the cab of our old Studebaker pick-up that was powered by a Slant-6 Dodge, no mufflers....bitch Rocked to windows running down the road.......what a riot !
One of the first vehicles I ever striped was a 56 F-100 painted a nice medium metallic blue with 56 Merc wheel covers(rims edge painted red),a white bed tarp with a pleated red diamond in the middle and a GREAT set of chrome stacks that turned out at about a 45 degree angle level with the top of the cab.He bought it new in 56(his old man ran a Ford dealership)and I striped it in white with red accents in the 8th grade(1957).That truck had the sweetest sound(272 with a 3-speed) around!He's retired now and living in Florida and sent me a few pix of his latest truck;a 1950 F-1 with a 302 in it and(you guessed it)cab high chrome stacks.Bet it don't sound as good as the Y-block though.
Friend of mine here built a '31 A longbed pickup in the late 50's. It had an early Cad dual quad eldorado engine. It was flat black (only because the sheet metal wasn't up to a finish gloss job. He built his own headers that came out the side of the engine compartment . He worked for the local chrome plating shop nights and had the headers chromed along with TA DA the Stacks (straight up through the splash aprons, up the back of the cab, baloney cut at cab height. He drove the truck until the mid 60's then parked it. About 4 yrs ago he got it out of storage to put it back on the road (his wife insisted, they dated in it when he built it). He came over and borrowed one of my stock A frames for dimentions and built a new frame. Mike doesn't just build things he creats works of art. That frame shouldn't be covered up. Everyone asked if he was going to put stacks back on. The answer, YES!!! YEA!! The story however has a tragic ending. He is not using the Cad motor, but is substituting a CHOKE, COUGH, SBC. Damn, I couldn't believe it and had to hear it for myself. To my face he confirmed the worst. Update: I think I may have talked him into selling me the caddy engine to put with my engine display. I'm going to try and get the headers and the stick conversion so if I ever want to put it in something I'll have the parts. He takes forever to make up his mind on things so It could be awhile until the Caddy is in my shop. I'll try to get a picture of the pickup when it was being driven and have someone post it. Sorry for getting OT. Frank
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