Finally am able to roll my truck out of the garage (steering is a great concept).
My Frankenstein consists of the following:
Started as '48 found mass amounts of rust
Enter '52 cab
'85 S10 108" chassis with posi and 4 wheel disc brakes
Vette 8" wheels
Home made box with '48 stake pockets/ rear pan.
Was going to run sbc but going spend this weekend fitting a 300/6 into it that will get a 4bbl, headers and dual exhaust.
90% metal work done now its body work and paint.
Brian

 

Looking Good. Very Nice

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Thanks for the picture, computers and I don't get along too well!!

 

Cool..body seems nice from what I can see, of corse my iPod has a small screen. My future ride is a bit of a frankinstien too. Now I won't feel so lonely on the forum.

 

Look at it this way, they only get better looking!

From this:



To this:




In only 5 years (and umpteen thousand dollars)!

 

Here's your front view pic!!!! I put it in your picture thread but that's already on the second page. So, we can repost it!

 

Thanks Julie, Your truck looks great, are you keeping the primer look or are you going to paint?
Brian

 

Well I'm keeping the primer look - but just because now that the truck looks good and drives super, I've lost a lot of my drive to spend the bucks or do the work for the next two phases (bought a ranch that is a fixer-upper) - which are big and I'll have to stick with once I start - finishing the interior, and then paint.

I "plan" to paint the exterior the "Royal Marine Blue" that is on the visor and tire carrier with stake pockets, rain gutter, visor supports, tire carrier and grill white.

Here's my 51 back in the late 1980s.......Similar to that. I have a 40s vintage speed boat those colors so I want them to match. I also have a little trailer made from an F1 Bed I'll paint to match. So I'm at a point where I'm kind of feeling like "Barbie" with all her truck accessories! It's a sickness ya know!







Wish I could find a 51 F1 Flatbed for the ranch! Been thinking about a Panel too:

 

Love the boat, more details please! I was looking to buy a mahogany boat to restore before I got the '48. That will probably be my next project.
Brian

 

Stick to trucks. Leave the Panels to me.

 

Trailer looks great... To nice of a f1 bed to be a trailer...

Thought I was going to see a teardrop trailer there also...

 

Want to see what the rest of the truck looked like from which the "trailer" came...???



It's the green truck that Julie and I literally split. She got the better half.

 

I agree! That bed was PRISTINE!

OK I guess I'll have to look for an F1 Stake bed!

(like I need another vehicle!)

The boat was home built by my father. It was one of what they called the "CONVAIR Boats"

My dad worked on the "XF2Y-1 SeaDart" program in the 1950s. They had a big problem with pounding by the fiberglass skis this jet had when landing on the water.

Well, they were very inventive at the time (with everything but the planes - a few other of their group were inventing WD-40). One of the engineers who was working on the hydrodynamicas of the skis was fron General Dynamics "ELCO" division (that made many of the WWII PT Boats) and they made a hull mold from a 15 foot Kris Craft, then built fiberglass boat hulls out of the fiberglass composites rejected by the "Dart"

It's one of about 45 "CONVAIR" boats and may well have been the first civilian fiberglass hulled speed boat in California.

It was powered by a 1949 Studebaker Flathead 6 (I'm thinking similar to our F-series 226). The engine was mounted backwards in the boat and the propeller shaft is connected to the crankshaft ballance via a modified "pulley" that is actually a gear. The prop shaft has a similar gear and they are joined by a large piece of chain (like bicycle chain with a removeable link). Direct drive - no transmission.

Cooling water is rammed in by a pipe that drags out the back of the boat, and exits via the exhaust pipe to the water.

In the mid 1970s the flathead was replaced with a Buick 225 V6 "fireball" out of a 64 Skylark. I think it's horrible as it extends too far out side ways with water coolled cast iron jacketed exhaust manifords. I plan to re engine it with an inline engine again....thinking about a fuel injected toyota 22R.

Someday!

 

Hmmm Site Burped - duplicate post - sorry

 

Hmmm Burped again!