My patina

[iokua80]

I've had a couple people on here tell me to start up a thread on my truck. I thought there was one still floating out there but i realized that it was showing the finished truck....well kinda finished. Driveable and done for now...maybe. Anyways here's some info on it. It's obviously a 54 3100. It's on an s10 frame. I did almost all the work myself. Airbagged all around with dropped spindles and tubular upper and lower control arms. 4 Link in the rear with a 67 Camaro rear end. Was going to put a 327 in it but was worried I was gonna have to put a lot of money into the engine to get it on the road so when I came across a 350 for a good deal I jumped on it. 800 bucks and only thing I had to add was plugs starter and alternator. I guess that about wraps up the background.....Now onto the pictures!!!!

[iokua80]

Here's what it started as


And here's the frame freshly stripped

[iokua80]

Here's me putting the control arms and bags in on the front.



And the rear getting measured and fitted for the C-notch and 4Link

[iokua80]

All laid out

[iokua80]

Not exactly the safest way to do it but it worked while me and a buddy of mine tried to find the best spot to set the cab and double check the fitment of fenders and running boards



We used a spare fender from another project to help measure but then we went ahead and used the front clip from mine

[iokua80]

Ok. Cab's mounted. Now the engine. Used 3/8" flat stock so the engine could be moved back towards the firewall.



And my buddy made the transmission mounts using 2in C channel

[iokua80]

http://i332.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/IMG_0410.jpg
Here's the link to my photobucket page. I'll try to get this figured out

[Swifty]

thanks for posting this up. i love you truck!!

[iokua80]

This shows the radiator. Believe it or not the hood is all the way open. For some odd reason I don't get much height out of the hood. Latches are working correctly and fenders are mounted in the same spot. You can tell cause of the rust line.

[iokua80]

I don't have any pictures of the steering shaft but i'll post them as soon as i get them. If anyone else has any questions on what or how I did something just ask. I'll help anyway I can

[iokua80]

Here's the truck now. The first two pictures is when I went to a cruise in which was about 2 1/2 hours away. The last two are from this past weekend when I went visit my fiance's parents about 2 hours away.







These next two are for sh!ts and giggles. They are of my buddy's truck. The guy who helped me on my build.

[iokua80]

YEAH!! That was me!! We went there. Me and the other truck in my last post. The action pictures were from the ride down

[fatboys69]

Sweet Truck I think i saw it and took a couple of pics at the Cleveland TN Cruise in last month.
*****IN !!!!!! Good Job

[1LoC10]

looks cool......needs some smoothies and white walls though

[northern 85]

Love it! Hope mine can look like that someday. Do you have any pics of it at ride height? I LIKE IT!!!!!!!!

[Big Block]

Both trucks are killer, I would love to build a 58' someday.

[CAL 58 GMC]

Cool!!! I like the fact a guy can build a cool truck to go cruising in and not have to have get a second on his house for a high dollar paint job and yet still be driving somthing that can turn heads! Good Job!

[Funeral]

I'm not a huge fan of lowering, but that aside this is the best P I have ever seen.

[sgtusmc]

Your truck has the best real patina I've ever seen. I showed my wife your truck and she asked how much was the paint job, and who done it. She was convinced it was a fake patina job, till she looked at the other pics. Very nice truck man.

[iokua80]

Thanks for the compliments. Yeah it's real patina. The funny thing is a year ago my buddy had somehow met the guy who owned my truck. He took a pic of it on his cell phone and forgot about it. I started looking for a project to do around the first of this year or towards the end of last year. Looked for about 2 months. Took my buddy with me on a couple of hunts but never found anything worthwhile. Then one night he remembered he had this pic on his phone. Sent it to me but said this was taken a year ago so I don't know if the guy still has it. Called the guy and was talking to him about it. He still had and one thing led to another and next thing I know me and my buddy went down to look at it. Still in the same condition as the pic. 1500 bucks later I was towing her home. Wasn't gonna start on it anytime soon. But then through a guy I work with I found a FREE s10 reg. cab long bad frame. Supposed to bring back the body once I stripped the frame. The guy went "out of town for a while and not sure when he'd be back" so I took the body to the scrap yard and made 175 bucks. And that's when it started..... I worked on it for a little under 5 months. A couple hours each night and almost all day Sat and Sun.

[iokua80]

The wheels are Foose Legends. 20x8.5. As for the interior.....it's pretty much stock with the exception of the air bag switches and the s10 pedals.







I need to get some updated pics with the seat in and rubber mat down. The gauges don't work with the exception of the gas and oil pressure. Figured I shouldn't be speeding too much so I didn't worry about the speedo.

[72BlckButy]

Great build iokua80, you have one sick truck!

What wheels are those? They kind of resemble a Foose style, but I can't quite tell.

Also, any interior pics?

[50Bow-tied GMC]

Out of curiousity what is the ride height of your buddy's truck?

[texas56]

Awesome truck! We are doing kinda the same thing. We had plans to paint it so alot of the body work is done so now going to Fake Patina it. Most challanging parts we have ran into is trying to make the running board mounts look good and also the Toe board and Floors. As far as headers, Im sure it will matter on placement of the motor in the compartment, but I ended up using 67- 81 camaro SBC. they fit very well and you didnt have to have that tube over the steering shaft. I actually am running a blown Small Block and it is going to fit under the hood. I can email pics if you want to see how the headers fit. Let me know! Great JOb again on your truck. Looks cool!

[iokua80]

Nice. Sounds like you're gonna have a pretty sweet truck. Send some pictures of the headers and of your truck. I think I found a header that will work but am interested in seeing yours. I believe that a 69-72 chevy exhaust manifold will work. Thanks for the pics
Later,
Josh