Chevrolet Stepside -69

 

Bertil Gustavsson Sundsvall

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Chevy truck from -69, but the parts comes from a lot of places... The frame started life as a duallyframe and was shortned tubbed for the big M/T tires, the cab is a -67 to -72 GM, the bed is homemade and the rearfenders came from a -57 Chevy!!

The motor is a built 400 small block overbored to 406 c.i. and the tranny is a four speed with a floorshifter... 8" Ford rearaxel in a Volvo suspention!!... Everything works fine and the truck is loud and fast enough!!!

 
The prewious owners seems to have been many!!... And all of them had there ideas about wireing, bodywork etc. so we had to start with taking care of some old mistakes!

Some new panels had to be made and some welding had to be done before We could start working on getting allthe dents hammered out and the body straigt enough for the new paint and the new look!!!

 
After all the bodywork was done and a new tailgate was made We put some fillerprimer on all the parts, made a new frontbumper and small things like blastering the chrome off the doorhandels etc.

Powersteering, new headers and a 3" stainless exhaust was put on to before it was time for the work with getting the new paint on!!

 
Semi gloss orange was the choise by the owner, to get some Unical look and make it catch more attention some scallops and numbers was added after We made the racing stripes...

As usual when a car is done the owner drove it for a summer or something before He decided it was time to upgrade and get a new project, so the truck got sold and what happend to it I don't know!!!