49 chevy restoration with a twist

[swanny11]

Here is my project. So far its been extremely fun, and difficult at times. Please give us support and ideas! Thanks!

Whats up guys, pretty sure im far enough into my project to make a thread about. since i was about 14 ive wanted a 47-53 chevy pickup and just last year my dad found one while he was working.



We got her with most of the parts, some in good condition, others not. My brother had a 96 (i believe) caprice cop car that he didnt want anymore, my dad and i did some measuring and figured it will fit on the pickup!



The 350 fuel injected motor has a spun rod bearing so that needs to be fixed eventually. We got whatever we thought we could use off the cop car, pitched the rest and started our project. Found out the frame came out to wide on the cop car so we had to cut it out and weld a new piece of metal in so it will fit.




after both sides were done we moved on.
Next we gathered all our chevy parts and checked out what we really have.
After that we started from bottom up. Mounts! made cab mounts, radiator mount, and bed mounts. We are trying to get this thing to be deadly silent with no wiggles and bangs. We are using the caprice rubber bushings for cushion.



*This project is a winter project so we didnt have any work done over this years summer*

So we are just now getting back on the truck with the bed.
Due to the suspension on the cop car frame the bed can not be flat unless its raised up a foot! We are working our way around that right now (January 1st)
We decided the only way we will make this work is by having a hump in the middle of the bed. We got some cardboard and got the radius of the half circle around the suspension for the bed. We got what we liked and had some metal bent for the frame to support the wood in the bed.




We have some old redwood that were wine cask's in the early 1900's at one point (very very pretty wood) and got it cut up with our table saw, not complete, still needs lots of sanding but we got it laid in place and we are liking it!




I will keep all of you updated whoever is interested, Please give us suggestions on anything!