Doug C. 49 Chev Truck

So my neighbor wanted a cool truck project, and had to be from the 40's. Another friend I know was selling this 49, so it was a done deal.

The truck actually runs quiet well in spite of the way it looks.

Definitely some work here but a very savable truck and worth the effort it will take to get it back to good.

The wood floors are a nice touch..... not.

Pretty much what you would expect for an old unrestored truck.

Now the tear down begins.

Doug working hard...... with a whisk broom.

So far not to bad, a few broken bolts but most came out.

Ran good and did not smoke.

The transmission still moved through the gears like normal.

Now for the fun part, a 1994 S-10 donor truck. From this we will be using the frame, steering column, brake booster and master cylinder as well as the pedals, and anything else that might come in handy.

First, as always, we sandblasted the entire truck. Here I am showing only the cab, we will get to the rest later. We wanted to get the cab finished so we can begin to fit the S-10 frame under it.

Some pretty bad rot, but with a few new panels and some trick ones we will make ourselves this should be no problem.

Cab corners and the center of the rear of the cab are bad.

We begin by removing only the bad part of the original cab.

Next we fabricated a piece for the inner.

The same procedure for the other side. That's Doug, deciding how much of the inner needs to be removed.

POR on the areas that will be hard to get at later.

Doug removed the rusted area on the cab.

Here is the replacement metal being closely fitted so the welding will go much easier.

Super magnets are used to hold the metal in place and they work quite well.

All welded in and ready for some finishing touches.