Nother newb from okc!

[Bowtied]

Hey fellas i'm josh. I'm 24 and i've been around cool cars and trucks most of my life. Right now i'm building a bagged and bodydropped 89 chevy reg cab short bed. Once it's done i plan on building about a 46ish chevy truck, straight six, suicide front chop top whide whites and flat orange primer over rusty metal lol. Anyways, glad to be aboard the board here. [S

 

[international rat]

Welcome from Ks. sounds like a cool build! Make sure you start a build thread with plenty of pics whenever you get started!!

 

[Thunder1]

Welcome to RRR Josh. Good to have you on the forum. As International rat said, we like build pictures and lots of them. So warm up your camera and head on out to the shop and shoot a whole lot of them. Looking forward to seeing the 89 and the 46ish.

Thunder

 

[the reverend muddy grimes]

Bow, do u have power? most of OKC is out

 

[117harv]

Welcome aboard, tell all the rat roders you know about RRR.

 

[Gregster]

welcome to RRR , Glad to have you here !

 

[hotrod preacher]

welcome to the RRR! hope to see some pics soon--and is it snowing any out there today?

 

[rustbuilder]

HEY GLAD YOU JOINED!!And we only got 1inch of ice and still snowing at a rate of 2+inches a hour going on 4.5 hours.

 

[hotrod preacher]

HEY GLAD YOU JOINED!!And we only got 1inch of ice and still snowing at a rate of 2+inches a hour going on 4.5 hours.

started sleeting here last nite-this a.m. snow ..........and still snowing[cl

 

[Ratcrazy]

Welcome Josh to RRR from NC.

 

[buckeyedon]

Welcome to RRR.

 

[whytesmoke]

Welcome to site hope to see your projects soon.

 

[Sam_Fear]

Welcome to RRR! How about a couple pics of your truck?

Bow, do u have power? most of OKC is out

If it is, he probably won't be answerin'. I'm glad we just got the cold this time!

 

[Bowtied]

No i live on the nw side of okc (near hefner and may if your familiar) and we never lost power. Thank god. The last ice storm we had i was on the southside of town and was without power almost 3 weeks. I vowed to move outta state if that happend again! LOL

Yeah as far as the pictures go i'm still working on the 89. You can talk to rustbuilder it's a 5 year long project now. I'll get some pic's of it up here tho. Gotta round'em all up.

I am a fan of all cars trucks and bikes so i'll be around when possible. I've just been busy NOT working the last couple days lol. No job sucks!

 

[likes_2_tinker]

hey welcome to the RRR shure wouldn't mind seeing some pictures of that truck

 

[Bowtied]

Pictures in no particular order...

 

[Bowtied]

Couple more. Let me know what you think...

 

[Bowtied]

A little bit of info on the truck. I First bagged it and drove it like that for about a year. Then got the urge to bodydrop it (or cut the frame down and "channel" it whatever you wanna call it LOL). I used 2x4x3/16 square tubing to reinforce the frame rails then just trimmed down the rail after i welded the tubing in. Then plated it up near the motor and plug welded the outside rail to the new square tube inside. So it's as stout as we could make it.

Then we took the motor apart on a stand put all new gaskets in, new pushrods (couple had a slight bend in them). New timing chain set oil pump, new water pump, hei distributor etc. Also converted it from a 5 speed manual to a turbo 350 automatic (Which looking back i should have done a 4 speed). Anyways it's set up for 22's all around on 1/2" air line. And it'll have a retro style interior!