So I've got a few hundred acres out in west Texas that's belonged to my family since a long fuckin' time ago...there are a shitload of old cars/trucks on one part of the land behind where one of my great uncles used to live...I went out there today with the intent to bring back the 50something Bel Air that was out there...well, apparently someone had it hauled off (or stole the damn thing) at some point in time, and it was gone....but since there are a shitload of miscellaneous vehicles out there, I went ahead and browsed around to see if there was anything else worth a shit.
And I came across this:
it's a 1949 Chevrolet...um...pickup, I guess. It's got a straight-6 in it that probably hasn't been cranked since the late 50's...missing all the glass except for the driver's side window (which is rolled down and wouldn't roll back up), and there's a good bit of surface rust...the only spot that's rusted through is a fist-sized spot on the driver's side rear bottom of the cab...other than that everything that's there is in decent condition (for what it is)...there's an extra set of rear fenders, an extra tailgate, the hood, front grille, some body panels that I'm not sure what they are, and one of the front fenders in the back of the truck. I'm guessing at one point in time someone was going to attempt to restore it, but gave up. A buddy of mine in Lufkin has a 53 that's fully restored, and he has a plethora of spare body parts for it...
the cool part is, I called up my uncle to haul a tractor out to pull the truck out (since it's sunk down quite a few inches in the dirt), and he said he's still got the title for it. Apparently my great-grandfather bought the truck new in '48, and didn't care much for it, so it pretty much got used as a farm truck for a while and then parked.
Now I've just gotta scrounge up an 82 Cutlass chassis, an LS1, and a couplea turbos, and I'll be all set to run some 11's
And I came across this:
it's a 1949 Chevrolet...um...pickup, I guess. It's got a straight-6 in it that probably hasn't been cranked since the late 50's...missing all the glass except for the driver's side window (which is rolled down and wouldn't roll back up), and there's a good bit of surface rust...the only spot that's rusted through is a fist-sized spot on the driver's side rear bottom of the cab...other than that everything that's there is in decent condition (for what it is)...there's an extra set of rear fenders, an extra tailgate, the hood, front grille, some body panels that I'm not sure what they are, and one of the front fenders in the back of the truck. I'm guessing at one point in time someone was going to attempt to restore it, but gave up. A buddy of mine in Lufkin has a 53 that's fully restored, and he has a plethora of spare body parts for it...
the cool part is, I called up my uncle to haul a tractor out to pull the truck out (since it's sunk down quite a few inches in the dirt), and he said he's still got the title for it. Apparently my great-grandfather bought the truck new in '48, and didn't care much for it, so it pretty much got used as a farm truck for a while and then parked.
Now I've just gotta scrounge up an 82 Cutlass chassis, an LS1, and a couplea turbos, and I'll be all set to run some 11's
