History This is for you older AD guys.

Way back in the day late 70's or early 80's I read an article about a fellow that reduced an AD truck to 2/3rds scale.......must have been in classic truck or some such mag, does anyone remember it and could there possibly be a link somewhere?

 

Picture on here someplace.

 

Used to see one at NATS North, in Kalamazoo, Mi. It was a very well executed vehicle. Not sure if there's more than one floating around.

 

I remember it, very well done little truck.


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I remember seeing it at a KKOA show back in mid - late 80's. It was an impressive piece.

 

If I remember right the guy applied for a job at the brand new S-10 plant in 82-83 and was rejected so he set out to prove he could build a better mini truck than they could.

 

LOL I am sure that GM paid attention.

I'd like to see it if someone has a pic or two.

 

There is a guy in my town ( Murfreesboro, TN) that did this to a 48-52 Chevy truck, and helped build the ideas for the s-10. I know he also worked with george barris on the batmobile. If this is the wrong person sorry, also don't know what AD is. Still learning the lingo.

 

Me too as I remember it was awesome

 

Advanced Design

 

AD = Advanced Design that was what GM called the trucks between '48 and 'early '55.

LOL @Frankie47 you're a little faster on the draw than I am today.

 

I will try and go by his house and take a picture and you can say yes or no if this was him. Truck is in pieces now and some was sent out for fiberglass molding. This was a few years back when I worked for him. Name is Terry Steagall.

 

Yep, definitely Terry's truck the op is referring to. Know him real well, and that truck got him a gig at the GM Tech Center here in Warren. He lived in the area for a number of years before going back south. he would stop by my dad's house quite frequently, driving the "little" truck.

 

Maybe he has some pictures or a link to the article....its probably never been scanned.

 

His name is Terry Steagall. I talked to him a couple of times , once at York nats east. I remember him saying that he cut the body into 365 pieces , one for each day of the year. It was on a S-10 chassis . The one giveaway was that it only had four grille bars. But if the truck was sitting by itself , you could easily not notice that it had shrunk by 15%. Bill

 

Yeah, well I guess they did!

 

Thank you everyone for your help....I tried to google him but there is a famous tractor puller with the same last name.....most hits were on him. I'm gonna keep lookin'.

 

yup, Terry Steagull,...and he did an amazing job on that truck, hope someone comes up with pics.

 

There's a pic on this thread.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/o-t-minnnature-48-chevy-pickup.114398/

And here it is if you don't want to click

 

Thank you Jesse!

 

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Holy crap!

 

Told ya it was sweet!

 

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