The `41 begins a new life!
To answer a few questions at once, the `41 has an inline 6 showing 65,000. When i bought the truck about a month ago, a buddy and I wenched her on the trailor from where she had been sitting since 1954. We had to cut trees, grape vines, and bushes to get her out. I meant to take pics, but in my excitement to get started, I forgot the camera. I know a straight axle with `bones is peobably the way I should go, but I love my subframes and I`ve got a 75 nova just begging to get the axe, so I think I`ll use the sub and the nova rear with parts of the truck frame and some 2x3 tubing. That generation X and F body subs already have the zee I like and I`ll zee the rear rails `till they look "right" to me. I`m still not sure whether or not to run the whole truck front end or not. If I do, I have some `54 half ton fenders to graft the wheel openings from to make them smaller. I also am not sure about the bed. Of course it`ll be short like myt `46, but I`m kicking around the thought of a short stake side flatbed. I am going to try to unstick the six but I also have other options. I have a `67 model 429 caddy and trans that has some kind of problem I`ve not had time to check out yet. I`ve also got several small chevies. I plan to chop the top on this one and put it in red oxide. I`ve already started to clean the cab out and started pushing out some dents. I`m pretty busy but I`ll try to keep you posted with pics and progress. Any thoughts and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!!!
Lee