front end, etc

[1st Edition 55]

Man I am glad I found this forum. I have now been reading for days, and finally decided to post.

I have a 55 1st Edition that my grandpa bought new. The last time it was tagged was in '72. I rebuilt the engine in high school, class of '89 woohoo. I have worked on it off and on since then. It was a farm truck in the Texas panhandle, so its dinged up a little.

I have several questions. With this truck only being made for 6 months +/-, how rare is it? It has a single back glass, without the cab corner windows, is this common? I thought most of them had 5 windows. I wish it had the same grill as the '54's.

I traded a forklift to a guy for an IFS installed, and he used the frontend from a '72 Chevy pickup. He unbolted it from the donor, did a simple mock up, drilled the holes and bolted it on. He did have to use a 7/16" spacer on each side to take up the slack, but it appears to fit OK. Have any of you done this before?

I will be posting pictures soon, and look forward to your responses. I have found a wealth of info already.

Thanks guys.