Better Late Than Never!
The following pictures show the current status of the build.
Truck’s History: This truck was purchased by my grandpa in the late 50's or early 60's. He used it for hauling his race car to the track. He chopped it in 1964 and painted it candy red. The top was chopped such that all the windows were the same height and at the same elevation. The rear of the cab was canted fwd and the door canted in so the roof was unmodified. He gave the truck to my dad when he turned 15. My dad painted it silver with black scallops and installed stacks and quad canted headlights with a 62 rambler grille. Sometime in the early 80's my dad quit driving it for its final ground up rebuild. Not much progress was made since he had a family to raise. About 10 yrs ago he reached a time in his life that he could start working of the truck. Him and I fabricated a new bed box with tonneau cover, installed a 1990 Mustang MAF EFI motor, plumbed the fuel and braking systems and did a bolt up Volare installation. Then at age 54 my dad passed away in his sleep unexpectedly from a blood clot in his lungs. I brought the truck to my house in July of 2010 to finish for him. I frenched in caddy tail-lights in the rear fenders, pie cut the hood 1.5", straightened the side window channel for a one-piece glass, frenched in a Harley Davidson gas cap, installed the 8.8 mustang rear end with Lincoln discs and triangulated 4 link, C-channeled the frame, filled and modified the dash for gauges, installed a Mustang II IFS with bags on all four corners, moved the front axles center line forward 4.5", fab'd valance for canted headlights and custom grille, ditched the efi (wrong look), fab'd all metal head liner and wrap around center console, built my own louver dies to stamp louvers on tonneau cover, fab'd new running boards, custom stacks and I'm a sure a bunch more.
Older picture, but it shows one of the stacks without a ball on it (for safety reasons)
More pictures and information can be found at the following link.
http://darksidersrealm.forumotion.com/t416-chopped-55-f100
If needed, I can post the fabrication of any particular component on this site per request.
I have been away from this build for about 9 months while I finished my shop. Now that it is done, I am back on the truck and thought I would start a new thread with a new group of people to keep me motivated.
The following pictures show the current status of the build.
Truck’s History: This truck was purchased by my grandpa in the late 50's or early 60's. He used it for hauling his race car to the track. He chopped it in 1964 and painted it candy red. The top was chopped such that all the windows were the same height and at the same elevation. The rear of the cab was canted fwd and the door canted in so the roof was unmodified. He gave the truck to my dad when he turned 15. My dad painted it silver with black scallops and installed stacks and quad canted headlights with a 62 rambler grille. Sometime in the early 80's my dad quit driving it for its final ground up rebuild. Not much progress was made since he had a family to raise. About 10 yrs ago he reached a time in his life that he could start working of the truck. Him and I fabricated a new bed box with tonneau cover, installed a 1990 Mustang MAF EFI motor, plumbed the fuel and braking systems and did a bolt up Volare installation. Then at age 54 my dad passed away in his sleep unexpectedly from a blood clot in his lungs. I brought the truck to my house in July of 2010 to finish for him. I frenched in caddy tail-lights in the rear fenders, pie cut the hood 1.5", straightened the side window channel for a one-piece glass, frenched in a Harley Davidson gas cap, installed the 8.8 mustang rear end with Lincoln discs and triangulated 4 link, C-channeled the frame, filled and modified the dash for gauges, installed a Mustang II IFS with bags on all four corners, moved the front axles center line forward 4.5", fab'd valance for canted headlights and custom grille, ditched the efi (wrong look), fab'd all metal head liner and wrap around center console, built my own louver dies to stamp louvers on tonneau cover, fab'd new running boards, custom stacks and I'm a sure a bunch more.
Older picture, but it shows one of the stacks without a ball on it (for safety reasons)
More pictures and information can be found at the following link.
http://darksidersrealm.forumotion.com/t416-chopped-55-f100
If needed, I can post the fabrication of any particular component on this site per request.
I have been away from this build for about 9 months while I finished my shop. Now that it is done, I am back on the truck and thought I would start a new thread with a new group of people to keep me motivated.
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(I guess I'm assuming you installed bear claw latches.)
