looks like half of a fjording kit to me, at least that's what anyone with a military hmmwv license will tell you.
on 18 wheelers and trucks that haul loads it keeps the exaust off the load, on 4x4s it keeps water out the exaust on rods it's the look.
I saw one pickup with stacks, and I liked it. More importantly(?), WHERE'S TINGLER HANGING OUT NOWADAYS?
So are straight axles and bias-ply tires but this is still a TRADITIONAL rod and custom board. (Note: Texas tags on truck in first pic. Regional thing?)
Yes, but it seems like he's not as active on the HAMB. In other words, is he hanging out at the Ol Skool Rodz forum again?
Sorry, but that doesn't make something less cool. It just scares you away from something that you really like because you're worried about what someone else might think about you? I dig "stacks".
Stacks are cool. Rednecks just over did them. They look killer on a real deal styled 50's hot rod or custom truck. Keep the pics coming. I enjoy them. BloodyKnuckles
I've been doing muffler work since 1977...I've turned down installing stacks on pickups over a hundred times...to me they look like shit and I don't want any one to think I did it because it looked good.
These guys would have a fit if we showed them a photo of wheat truck with the pipes running through the grill and up Arty. Arty is right though, the wheat farmers did and still do run stacks on their trucks as a safety factor. There have always been a few trucks around with stacks before the diesel and wantabes you see today. Locally a few early Effies had them. Quite often though it seemed that the truck with the stacks either belonged to a truck driver or a truck mechanic back in the day for some reason. There were also a few trucks with belly burners but those were more the custom or show trucks.
Picture those stacks coming up from between the frame rails ( between the bed and cab ) then right angle out and up to the sides of the cab... Not straight up out of the running boards. That would look more engineered and custom. Cool old 41, by the way.
The '48 F1 WILL get stacks when it sees the road. Had them on the wrecker I drove in the 70's, straight through, no mufflers. It was the only thing that kept me awake after 12-14 hours pulling people out of ditches and hauling drunks home to keep them from going to jail. Frank
They are dumb. Maybe they could be defined at traditional, however there were a lot of trends of the period that were dumb and phased out for a reason.
The idiots who slap a set of stacks on any diesel truck call those who put them on a gas engined truck "gassers" and give em shit. I corrected one guy and said a "Gasser" is a car class drag raced in the 50's & 60's and the Stacks were on gas pwd shit waay before you 18 wheeler wannabe fake ass dipshits were around! Here's one cool thing that has stacks. My buddy Daves replica of what 'Lord Humungus" drove in"The Road Warrior"
WOW, Sure is a lot of name calling here ! This is about Stacks on trucks. The only reason I do not have Cab high stacks on my pickup is that I use my truck as a "Truck" I haul stuff in my pickup and 99.999% of the time it is more than a beer cooler. I do not want the exhaust blowing on the blanket that is covering the piano. I would not put those mid cab stacks on my truck because I want to hear my Rock and Roll with my windows down more than exhaust in my left ear.
--------------------------- Jeeze.....and I thought 'rat rods' made from old cars were bad. And that's your "buddy 'Dave's" ride??? I think you *really* need to start hanging around with a better class of people! But, I must admit....the stacks do look just as much 'at home' and "right" for it, as everything else on that 'god-awful ridiculous looking, waste of time and material P.O S'! I'm sure the stacks - and the whole so-called 'vehicle' in fact, really impresses the same 'no-mind, low-brows' who also think running stacks on late model pick-ups - gas or diesel - is "cool" too.!
Well I'm down with the name calling part. Bugger head. Nah nah. I personally feel that the correct vehicle can carry a set of stacks real well. I don't see them being any worse than belly burners. I do have some 3" copper that I was thinking about building a set of stacks for my W/O Pickup. I think the down side is if you don't have a step bed they do take away hauling room in the bed. But this a purley functional viewpoint and has nothing to do with asthectics.
Just thought of another one to add to this. I didn't like the look myself, but at one point Grabowski's "T" ran a small pair just before it's 77 Sunset strip days. That had to be bad deal on the ears... I just double checked, The clone features the stacks as well. The Rodders Journal article on both cars also shows a period picture with small short belly burners. When posted earlier about my deal with the '41, my intention was to use them with the lakes plugs and use them a my Sunday-go-to-meeting exhaust!
My dad has his mind made up on a set of stacks for his 33 truck. Its his, he can have it anyway he wants it.... and while I don't really "get" the look, I bet the Y-block will sound cool and wake his neighbors.
Many tow trucks (gas or otherwise) had stacks for safety reasons. Equipment operated from the rear often directed the exhaust away from the operator. I ordered a truck with a rear mounted hose reel and opertator's station; the company wouldn't let me take delivery of the truck until the exhaust was modified to a stack. They cited some federal law.
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