gasser32pickup
09-16-2008, 08:35 PM
Howdy from Australia,
I am a 28yo Mechanical engineer from Victoria Australia, and I have been into cars since i was born. Dad has had heaps and I have built stockers, drag cars and tough street cars since I was old enough to stand up.
Ive been looking to build a 32 pickup for a year or so now and have just recently purchased an early 34 cab. Everything else is coming in bits and pieces. I have a plan of most aspects for the car, but will be humbly requesting your assistance through the build. This is my first hotrod, and in trying to do things as traditional as posssible, whilst keeping the car as practical and legal as possible, I have already hit some stumbling blocks.
I have a dream, or at least an image, of what parts and how it should all look, but basically, the story goes......
Its 1969, and I ran a workshop in SoCal, I had a 53 Chevy Gasser with a Blown 327 and glide, and a 34 pickup hotrod as my daily shop truck. Racing at Pomona, a slick on the 53 blew at 1000ft and the 53 barrel rolled 3 times over the line. Stuck with no race car, I pulled the driveline and fitted it to my shoptruck and took that racing instead. Likeling the look of the blown engine in the truck, and the increased business my workshop got from it sitting out the front, i decided to leave the engine in and tame it a touch and keep driving it. Wear and tear on the truck has taken its toll, but the truck still looks as it would have back in 69. Chopped 4", 3/4 channel, fenderless, satin black with candy orangeovergoldflake recessed firewall, way dropped axle, blown 327, sittin on torq thrusts and wide whites.
I have:-
34 Pickup Cab
32 grill shell
Torq Thrusts
327
Glide
early 9" housing
and
entirely too much time on my hands.
So thats where I sit.
Feel free to critique my thoughts and correct my history, I think it will be hell cool and look totally badass.
Cheers
I am a 28yo Mechanical engineer from Victoria Australia, and I have been into cars since i was born. Dad has had heaps and I have built stockers, drag cars and tough street cars since I was old enough to stand up.
Ive been looking to build a 32 pickup for a year or so now and have just recently purchased an early 34 cab. Everything else is coming in bits and pieces. I have a plan of most aspects for the car, but will be humbly requesting your assistance through the build. This is my first hotrod, and in trying to do things as traditional as posssible, whilst keeping the car as practical and legal as possible, I have already hit some stumbling blocks.
I have a dream, or at least an image, of what parts and how it should all look, but basically, the story goes......
Its 1969, and I ran a workshop in SoCal, I had a 53 Chevy Gasser with a Blown 327 and glide, and a 34 pickup hotrod as my daily shop truck. Racing at Pomona, a slick on the 53 blew at 1000ft and the 53 barrel rolled 3 times over the line. Stuck with no race car, I pulled the driveline and fitted it to my shoptruck and took that racing instead. Likeling the look of the blown engine in the truck, and the increased business my workshop got from it sitting out the front, i decided to leave the engine in and tame it a touch and keep driving it. Wear and tear on the truck has taken its toll, but the truck still looks as it would have back in 69. Chopped 4", 3/4 channel, fenderless, satin black with candy orangeovergoldflake recessed firewall, way dropped axle, blown 327, sittin on torq thrusts and wide whites.
I have:-
34 Pickup Cab
32 grill shell
Torq Thrusts
327
Glide
early 9" housing
and
entirely too much time on my hands.
So thats where I sit.
Feel free to critique my thoughts and correct my history, I think it will be hell cool and look totally badass.
Cheers