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About Me I have an 8 year old daughter who I have custody of. I belong to Okaw Valley Classic Chevy Club & Piston Pushers Car Clubs. I was an over-the-road truck driver for 13 years. I run my own construction business. I'm really into music. If the radio breaks, I'm walkin. Dad always said "The radio is so loud you couldn't hear the motor fall out". My favorite band is  I also love going to Gateway International Raceway for the drag races. I watch Nascar and anything else on that will teach ya something new. |
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General Vehicle Comments My Truck is a 1957 Chevrolet 3100. It has the stepside bed and small back window. It originally came out of Arizona. Then I bought it from a fellow car club member. I paid $3000 for the truck and drove it home, only to have the steering fall apart and damn near kill me. I've had it for about 12 years now. I used it as a daily driver for 5 years. It has gone thru several changes since then. Starting with yanking out the used and abused 327 and installing a 350 4 bolt main small block that my Father and I built with a high lift cam, solid lifters, 750 Holley, gear drive and headers. Upon seperating the old engine and trans, the bellhousing fell into three pieces so I bought a new reprogrammed th 400 with shift kit to make it go again. I bought a subframe for it at the local swap meet for 50 bucks and stuck another 300 in it to rebuild it. I took it to Southern Street Rods in Huntsville, AL and they cut the old straight axle and frame off and welded my 80 Z28 Camaro sub-frame in. The wheelbase was lengthened 1 inch to get the wheels centered in the fenderwell. It dropped the front of the truck almost 3 inchs. I took it out and blew up the old rearend (a 55 passenger car single track) within a month so I replaced it with a 9 inch Ford posi with 4:11 gears. It has a Cadillac tilt/teloscopic steering column, Camaro bucket seats and a handmade center console with a B & M Megashifter controling the action. I added power brakes which mount under the cab to keep the old stab pedal and a chrome spoon gas pedal from Lokar. I even put a stop light viewer on the dash and will try to install a working spot light from an old semi. I removed the stock gas tank from inside the interior and mounted an aluminum fuel cell under the bed. I bought a new wiring harness and took the truck apart hopefully for the last time. I smoothed the firewall off and relocated the battery to the bed. It currently sits waiting for me to finish the bodywork and paint it. Some original equipement it had on it and I kept were the original steel cab visor, deluxe heater controls, factory stereo w/speaker over the rearview mirror (with a new Kenwood head unit mounted in the glovebox) and the original radiator fan shroud. I bought a Dakota Digital door shaving kit to lose the handles and an ooga horn for attitude. I'm going for an old school hot rod look with new technology. |
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Accessories & Modifications Mid 80's 350 4 bolt main
80 Z28 sub-frame w/ disk brakes and close ratio power steering box
80's 9" Ford posi 4:11 gears
TransGo TH400 w/shift kit
B & M Megashifter
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Bulletin Board I would like to buy a set of hood bullets for this truck. I'm willing to spend $50.00 or so. I won't buy the ones for $250.00 in the catalogs, I'll build them myself and have them crome plated. Anyone with a set for sale please let me know.
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MYSPACE
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Future Plans In the process now - Body work - new cab corners(bought), new inner steps(done), smoothed firewall(done), relocate battery to bed, relocate gas tank to under bed(fabricating tank now), replace pass. door hinge pocket(done)
Paint - white w/blue flames and blue pearl
Air Bags w/ 4-link set up |
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Scale of 1-10, how into cars are you? | 11 | |
What is your favorite type of Car? | Chevy | |
What is the next car you plan on getting? | Too many now! $! | |
What is your dream car? | 1957 Chevy Bel-Air conv | |
What is your favorite race track? | Daytona | |
Who is your favorite race car driver? | Dale Earnhardt Sr. & Jr. | |
What is your favorite car event? | Daytona 500 | |
Scale of 1-10, how into motorcycles are you? | 5 | |
What is your favorite type of Bike? | Harley Davidson | |
What is the next bike you plan on getting? | Fixing up the one I have | |
What is your dream bike? | 1957 Harley Sportster | |
What is your favorite bike event? | Sturgis | |
Foreign or Domestic? | Domestic | |
Lifting or Lowering? | Both | |
Street Racing or Drag Racing? | Drag | |
NASCAR or FORMULA 1? | Nascar | |
Tinted or Clear windows? | Tinted | |
Spinners or no spinners? | Spinners | |
Looks or performance? | Both |
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