the GMC lives again!!! pics

[Jeffie James]

just yesterday my buddy tank rolled the truck out of the garage for the season. after last years birth, the truck needed some "touching up". so he pulled it in, put it on stands and commenced "touching". he also installed his new chromy chrome grille surround. looks cool.
http://photo.starblvd.net/forty9f1/1-3-1.jpg
http://photo.starblvd.net/forty9f1/1-3-2.jpg

[skull63]

cool truck!
love the exhaust dumps.

skull

Now you need to get that Ford done!!!!
Clark

[lulabelle]

You mean you just put it in gear and it goes?I should try that with one of my junkers someyear. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Joes50]

What size of rims and tires are on the truck? Looks good!!!

[Ryan]

Those wheels and tires suck.

[swazzie]

Nice ol Jimmy , but those rims need to be FIRED! . Took em off the soccer burban? no? hey , that's what I'm screamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[swazzie]

Hold it , hold it , hold it , hold it ! Are those painted calipers in the second pic?no? . . . . .no? is it my pooter?

[lulabelle]

[ QUOTE ]
Those wheels and tires suck.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah!You should take them off right now!What makes you think that you can think for yourself??Do what others tell you is cool. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gifLooks good man!

[plmczy]

"touching"? man it sounds like the truck was molested http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif. Looks good. later plmczy

[36couper]

[ QUOTE ]
Those wheels and tires suck.

[/ QUOTE ]

Those wheels and tires kick ass. Keep 'em.

[motor mikey]

looks good, looks real good. bi-otch

[Antibilly]

the chrome grille feature makes it look like it has a mustache!!! I like it even with the loke wheels!!

[Ryan]

Some of you guys are on the wrong message board man. If you are into that kind of thing there are plenty of forums out there that would be right up your alley. The HAMB, however, is based on traditional hot rods and customs.

[Antibilly]

YO...........
its the hizzel to the dizzel off the hook my dizzel!!

[J. Cougar]

Looks good exept for the wheels. Pity. At least it's an easy fix.

[famous59]

Truck looks good. Wheels are kool ! Ir is what you think that matters.

[41ChevyTrucker]

[ QUOTE ]
Took em off the soccer burban?

[/ QUOTE ]

LOL have yet to hear that one. I am so sick of seeing those things. Looking out my office window now at a black suburban on big chrome wheels... parked in front of the pediatrician's office. hahaha bleh

Actually the wheels came off of his Soccer Blazer http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Tank makes a cute Soccer Mom http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif(I'm gonna die for that one)
Tank is a converted mini trucker. Instead of selling his S-10 blazer he stripped it to build this GMC.
Yeh the wheels don't fit in with this board, but his hands on building does.
If the wheels didn't resemble Americans he would have heard a ton of shit from me by now.
Clark

[Big A]

Get rid of the ballet slippers and put some work boots on that thing. Visually, those wheels are too friggin' dainty. Rest of the truck looks damn fine though.

[Daisyduke]

Nice looking truck.

Daisy http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[whizzerick]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
http://www.whizzerick.com/wheels.JPG

[Daisyduke]

Actually Whizzerick i would like those wheels on my GMC (it would go perfectly with the pink paint http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

Daisy http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Ryan]

I personally think that truck would look pretty rad with either:

1. black steel wheels and black wall bias plies

or

2. unpolished Americans with tall radials

or

3. Radir wheels with red line repros

[Fat ASS Whitewalls]

I like the wheels, even though they are facing the wrong way. I like Ryans suggestions too. And no I'm not kissing butt! Dean

[2tall2beahotrodder]

This is a bit better.. Still like it how it is, even with the rims...



Nice truck-

[Bass]

I like the Radirs with red-lines suggestion, but I personally would prefer chrome reverse (NOT unilug) with spiders on G78 and L78 WWW's on that truck.

[SamIyam]

I like it.

Everything in the world doesn't have to be traditional...

But this IS a traditional hot rod and Kustom Messageboard... soooooooooo, I'm thinking GASSSERRR!!!!

Hahahahahahaha!!!

FWIW... I'd rather be driving that GMC than my daily driver... swap in a CHEVY grille and call it DONE!

Sam.

[williebill]

Don't like the wheels and tires.......
I really don't......
Coincidentally,I am an asskisser....
And I'm damn good at it...
Took me years to find at least one thing that I do well.......
Life is much easier now.....

[sawzall]

jeff

tell tank I cant wait to see how those tires "hook" on the track in the latimore valley MUD.. Personally I'm TOTALLY diggin the grille as is..

[onelow48]

Well well, I finaly get out of the garage for a night and this is what I come home to. I'm gonna throw my 2 cents in.

I know my wheels are not consistent with the traditional HAMB fashion. But they are consistent with what I believe to be HAMB philosophy.

I see people on here every day with creative, innovative ideas, that they offer the rest of us free for the taking. Then we take their ideas and mold them and change them to suit our own applications so they are different and unique from the original idea.

To me, the point of building something custom is to be different. My intentions with the GMC are just that. It is my first attempt at a rod. There are many aspects of the truck that have been directly influenced by things I’ve read or seen on the HAMB. The wheels are just an expression of the individuality of MY truck. They were donor wheels from the Blazer. I chose them years ago because they were similar to Torque Thrusts but with a twist. They are different and they stand out. That’s the point.

I think traditional rods rule. Eventually, I’ll start a new project. It’ll be something with steel wheels, it will sport a nailhead, and it won't have fenders. And all that courtesy of all the incredible stuff I’ve seen since the So What guys introduced me to this place and this culture.

I really stirred you guys up with the wheels, all the more reason to keep them.

That’s all I have to say about that.

[kustumizer]

who cares about the fricken wheels and tires. Hot rodding shouldnt be about what you have for fricken tires and shit, it should be about having fun and building, it shouldnt be a ass kissing thing. I like the tires and wheels combo. I know this is a trad board and everything, but if the guy likes those rims and tires dont give him shit about it. Just my 2 cents. nate

[lulabelle]

[ QUOTE ]
I really stirred you guys up with the wheels, all the more reason to keep them.

That’s all I have to say about that.


[/ QUOTE ]AMEN,I like you man! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[ABone312]

Personally, I don't think the wheels look that bad. I would go white walls, but it isn't my truck. The rod project with the nailhead sounds cool, post some pics when you get started. Don't bust his balls too bad, he did part out a minitruck to build the GMC.

[subrock]

that is one of my favorite trucks , and the wheels are one of the reasons. its all about function over form guys, those things probably grip like a hot damn. I like the look of em too.
Ian

[beatnik]

The Truck look great! I do like the grill

As far as the wheels go, this may not be the place for them but luckily they just bolt on, and you can give the truck any number of looks, from shop truck to lowrider, by just switching them, so who cares, there just like clothes, dress for the occasion.

[OGNC]

I like the truck just the way it sits. Sure, I am in the minority here, but how traditional is putting a 55 year old truck on a new S-10 chassis. It isn't, but I don't see any of you complaining about that...

[kustumizer]

ognc nailed it! Nate

[Grumpy]

damn, makes mine look like a 4X4!
looks tough though...

[46mopar]

Maybe you should paint them red just to make eveybody happy http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gifI still remenber when we put the roted cab in the back of my truck and took it to you shop it came along way.

[twnwagon]

ok, so this is just my opinion and it doesn't really mean much, but i thought rodding was all about individuality... when the first set of rallies got painted, im sure it wasn't because evrybody else did it, when the first top was chopped it wasn't because everybody else did it... so lets just enjoy the amazing work that tank did on this bad rod... i am personally very proud of his accomplishments, and proud to call him a friend !!! so, now all i can say is pull it out of the garage and "run forrest, run "