81 Chevy Truck


    chevy truck Here is my 1981 Chevy short box truck.
    It has a two wheel drive, 350 V8 with
    a 13inch dia clutch, With a New Process 3
    speed with overdrive transmission you could
    do burn outs for as long as you wanted!
    Here is what the truck look like when I
    first bought it. The owner before me installed
    three quater ton springs on it. First thing we
    did was remove half the springs from the rear.
    One nice thing I did with this truck is installed a
    great stereo system. It had 10 speakers in it.
    2 8-inch speakers in the doors
    2 6x9's in the cab corners
    2 6 inch speakers in the dashboard's corners
    2 two inch speakers in the center dash
    2 tweeters in the cab corners.
    There was a good amount of rust on this truck
    so we took it apart and did a frame off restoration
    on it to make it easyer to get at all the rust spots.
    We used the over head crane to lift the body and
    cab off of the truck. Having the crane made things
    so much easier.
    We placed the truck cab on a cart so that we can
    move it around. With the cab off and up where we
    can get at it, it was easy to weld in new cab
    corners and rocker panels.
    The passenger side of the bed just needed some
    patch work. I did a losey job on this but it still
    came out ok. The driver's side had to be completely
    replaced it was so bad.
    With everything patched up on the body
    we then repainted it.
    I used auto motive paint in the color
    Canary Red. It wasn't exactly the same as
    the original paint but it looked great.
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