Heres a few shots of my current project. its basically just a rolling chassis right now I have plenty of body work ahead of me. here are some specs: 1951 Ford f-1, 1968 302 and C4 tranny 9" ford rear,3.50:1 gears. mustang II clip airbags front and rear ,triangulated 4 link,smoothies,buletcaps and 3" white walls more to come.. Ryan Lodaddyo
Looks good. Mine is pretty like that under the roached body. I think F 1's are going to be the 32's of the 21 century.
You should seriously consider lowering that thing a little Looks like a good foundation there. What is the body like? Are you keeping it stock body-wise? Those trucks are bad ass.
yeah i was thinking about going a little lower! the body is in decent shape, it needs the usual patches. Im not gonna chop it, i like the look of this bodystyle unchopped. its gonna be shaved and nosed. thinking of a candy color for the outside, white tuck and roll for the interior i'll keep everyone updated as it comes along i finally got it to stage where i thought it was worthy of the HAMB i plan on driving this truck to the Lonestar Round up this year Ryan
Wow! Nice looking roller. If you head north you can help me with my '53. I also think you cannot image link to Fotki with a free account ... so here is a taster for the masses. Keep the updates coming. Later, papa al
thanks alot papa al if I ever get that far north i will be glad to give you a hand. I'll be in seattle this summer visiting my sister, i think thats a far as i may go for a while!
will do oldbeet! you got some nice rides there, been admiring them for a while now, been lurking a few years now. i decided i need to contribute a little more how far are you from seattle?
WOW! Now that's low! I'll be following your progress with interest! Hope to make some more changes to mine this winter.
nice ragdoll! what kind of grille you gonna put in there? im been tryin to come up with some ideas on a custom grille for mine Ryan
[ QUOTE ] nice ragdoll! what kind of grille you gonna put in there? im been tryin to come up with some ideas on a custom grille for mine Ryan [/ QUOTE ] Thanks Ryan! I'm still not sure. I've tossed around the idea of cutting up a 55 F100 grille and putting it inbetween the current buckets. I've also thought about a tube grille, and also some sort of phantom grille around the buckets. Know what I mean? I have no idea what I will end up with!
Ok you two, how did you get those trucks so low? I don't have the skill to pull off Lodaddyo's kinda work, but I got this thing in my Oh-so-small garage that is sitting about foot too high.
come on now Rev, i think your selling yourself short it wasnt that difficult I used a Speedway mustangII crossmember, stock control arms up front, a huge C-notch and a Triangulated 4-link on the rear and my buddy fabbed me up some air bag mounts but you can buy all the mounting brackets from suicidedoors.com, they cater to the minitruckers but they make some quality parts check them out Ryan SUICIDE DOORS
Hey rev Theres always the Volare setup Thats what I used and my trucks pretty low. Downside is you acn't airbag it. But who needs airbags anyway
Mine has a 65 Galaxie clip and we removed some (broken) leaves in the rear. We will be adding a step notch and bags to the back in the near future. (The same treatment as the panel...the one in the background on the left behind my truck.) I added some whitewalls recentlyk, and it brought the front end up! I will either yank off the whitewalls, buy new tires for the front and add the 14's back, or see what I can do about the galaxie suspension.
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