I couldn't pass it up.....

I saw a old friend that said he had a '48 Chevy pick up he didn't know what to do with. So now it's at my house!

The body has no rust thru at all on it.
6 cylinder 4 speed and the rear end has been changed out.
Motor was rebuilt 25 years ago so he says. It's not locked up.
The floor of the be is junk.

I don't know what I'm going to do with it. It'll just have to come to me I guess.
I never have liked the Roman nose look of the hoods on this model.

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WOW is that ever a nice origional P/U, great find.

good score !

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You can resist every thing but temptation

A little piece of pie will fix that hood. [S

Just bring it up here to me. I'm sure I could find something to do with it. I know the ol' lady wants a classic truck

The hoods do come off.........nice find!

Much easier to start with a good one. And that looks like a good one.

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Later

You sure that's not a 51' ? pull handles and wing windows. Nice solid truck.

I'm in the minority but i never liked the five windows. I do approve of the split
windshield tho That is a nice truck for what it is. Down in front and it's done

LOVE IT !!! I would get it running and drive the heck out of it!!! It's nice that they put the turn signals on the bumper instead of the fenders. Wish it was in MY driveway...

That is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sneakysnake said:

You sure that's not a 51' ? pull handles and wing windows. Nice solid truck.

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You're right, parts of it don't look like a '48. Unfortunately, it looks like it might be a mish mash of different years. The bed has the hole for the filler (47-48), the doors are 51 (twist handles and vent windows one year only), the cab also has the fuel filler (49-53), but the cab seems to have the driver's side cowl vent as well, which might make it a 49-50 cab, with a 47-48 bed, and 51 doors. You can determine the year of the cab from the serial number.

Really it doesn't matter too much if you're not restoring it, it's just interesting it seems to be a mash of parts.

I wouldn't pass on it either, pops!

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earthman said:

I'm in the minority but i never liked the five windows. I do approve of the split
windshield tho That is a nice truck for what it is. Down in front and it's done

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I prefer the three windows as well, but you can do some cool stuff with the five windows.

You guys all know more about it than I do. All I know is it's in pretty good shape. I'm thinking just get it running and stopping then double my money.
There seems to be lots of Chevy nuts.

It will probably just sit until next winter when I need something to pass the time.

05snopro440 said:

I prefer the three windows as well, but you can do some cool stuff with the five windows.

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Like fill in the quarter windows [cl

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earthman said:

Like fill in the quarter windows [cl

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nope, l like the view the 5 window cabs have, keeps me from running over other rigs when changing lanes or in down town foot traffic when people don't look where there going and walk out behind when your'e backing up.

Later

what a great find, wish I found them that nice but I am usually too "frugal" to buy the ones like that.

05snopro440 said:

I prefer the three windows as well

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me too, the extra windows look a little out of place to me and are a fiddly chore to install. nothing against the 5 window guys, just my cruddy opinion.