56 Crewcab on the Bay................... - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

toomanytoyz · 07-09-2008, 09:30 AM

Came across this while surfing, Look's to be well Done............

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cars-...3756.m14.l1318

Rick

GATORBUILT '59 · 07-09-2008, 10:09 AM

Is it me or is the frame sagging

1-ton of fun · 07-09-2008, 11:58 AM

hey, that looks like the photo chops we did in my crew cab post!

there is something not right there at the back of the cab. the bed looks level, but the cab doesn't. it may just be poor fabrication of the rear cab mounts

**mr48chev** · 07-10-2008, 01:26 AM

The truck has a lot of potential if the right guy got his hands on it though.
As it is sitting on a later dualie chassis I would say that the body and bed just aren't aligned as well as they should be. It looks like both should come up about an inch or so where they meet.

CAL 58 GMC · 07-10-2008, 11:33 AM

The bed does seem to be leaning towards the cab.

thirdstreettito · 07-10-2008, 12:19 PM

Cool! I like that tailgate.

Power · 08-20-2017, 12:28 PM

I wonder what he did to make rear pillar on back door like that?

tmoble · 08-20-2017, 03:27 PM

I don't know, but I'll bet it was a lot of work. suicide doors on a crewcab dually, pretty impressive.

**mr48chev** · 08-20-2017, 03:34 PM

Boy howdy I thought that one was lost in the back dredges of the archives never to be seen again.

Power, I think he probably used a suicide door kit but he could have used part of the front post moved to the other side to runs stock hinges. Having swapped posts corner to corner on mine and using stock hinges to do suicide doors I'd (and have) spring for the suicide door hinge kit on it rather than use the stock hinges.

That was a pretty cool truck that seems to have left the face of the earth after it was on Ebay.

**buggy5872** · 08-20-2017, 08:29 PM

The suicide doors are not that hard to hinge. I used the original hinges on mine and just fabed up pockets in the pillar.

*Jesse Z* · 08-21-2017, 05:18 AM

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The bed does seem to be leaning towards the cab.

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there is something not right there at the back of the cab. the bed looks level, but the cab doesn't. it may just be poor fabrication of the rear cab mounts

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Is it me or is the frame sagging

Really, no one here knows how to shim pickup body components for alignment? That slight misalignment is easy to adjust.

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**mr48chev** · 08-21-2017, 04:07 PM

Evidently the guy who built that truck didn't and that is the one detracting thing about that truck. the bent in the middle look. Nearly as bad as the droopy poopy drawers bed leaning down in the back look on AD trucks on S-10 frames to make them look lower in the back.

II_Slow · 08-21-2017, 04:45 PM

Sweet, the last post before yesterday was 2008. Remember that, boys and girls. That stuff you put out there on the web just might be there a while!

**mr48chev** · 08-21-2017, 04:50 PM

Yuppers and someone who didn't read that is going nuts trying to find the truck on Ebay now. I knew it was an old thread because I remembered answering it the first time.

_Ogre · 08-23-2017, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Power

I wonder what he did to make rear pillar on back door like that?

lot of right and left rear door posts

luckily the op posted pics in 2008
nice freaking truck

Power · 08-23-2017, 05:26 PM

I do think extended cab would be a lot easier if I had access to a 55-59 burban. Errr

07-09-2008, 09:30 AM	#1
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07-09-2008, 10:09 AM	#2
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07-10-2008, 01:26 AM	#4
mr48chev Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toppenish, WA Posts: 15,711	Re: 56 Crewcab on the Bay................... The truck has a lot of potential if the right guy got his hands on it though. As it is sitting on a later dualie chassis I would say that the body and bed just aren't aligned as well as they should be. It looks like both should come up about an inch or so where they meet. Last edited by mr48chev; 07-10-2008 at 01:41 AM.

07-10-2008, 11:33 AM	#5
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07-10-2008, 12:19 PM	#6
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08-20-2017, 12:28 PM	#7
Power Registered User Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Texas Posts: 30	Re: 56 Crewcab on the Bay................... I wonder what he did to make rear pillar on back door like that?

08-20-2017, 03:27 PM	#8
tmoble Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Glendale, Az Posts: 1,062	Re: 56 Crewcab on the Bay................... I don't know, but I'll bet it was a lot of work. suicide doors on a crewcab dually, pretty impressive.

08-20-2017, 03:34 PM	#9
mr48chev Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toppenish, WA Posts: 15,711	Re: 56 Crewcab on the Bay................... Boy howdy I thought that one was lost in the back dredges of the archives never to be seen again. Power, I think he probably used a suicide door kit but he could have used part of the front post moved to the other side to runs stock hinges. Having swapped posts corner to corner on mine and using stock hinges to do suicide doors I'd (and have) spring for the suicide door hinge kit on it rather than use the stock hinges. That was a pretty cool truck that seems to have left the face of the earth after it was on Ebay. __________________ Founding member of the too many projects, too little time and money club. My ongoing truck projects: 48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six. 71 GMC 2500 that is getting a Cad 500 transplant. 77 C 30 dualie, 454, 4 speed with a 10 foot flatbed and hoist. It does the heavy work and hauls the projects around.

08-20-2017, 08:29 PM	#10
buggy5872 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: North Beaver TWP PA Posts: 833	Re: 56 Crewcab on the Bay................... The suicide doors are not that hard to hinge. I used the original hinges on mine and just fabed up pockets in the pillar. __________________ ___________________________ 1959 Apache Short Fleetside, 1959 Apache NAPCO Long Stepside, 1957 3100 with 59 fleetside bed 1957 5700 LCF Crew Cab "Big Bertha",1959 GMC F370 1958 GMC 600, 1946 Chevy, 1959 Viking 60 LCF 1974 Elcamino SS, 1979 6500 GMC Tilt Bed Wrecker Big Bertha Build

08-21-2017, 04:07 PM	#12
mr48chev Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toppenish, WA Posts: 15,711	Re: 56 Crewcab on the Bay................... Evidently the guy who built that truck didn't and that is the one detracting thing about that truck. the bent in the middle look. Nearly as bad as the droopy poopy drawers bed leaning down in the back look on AD trucks on S-10 frames to make them look lower in the back. __________________ Founding member of the too many projects, too little time and money club. My ongoing truck projects: 48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six. 71 GMC 2500 that is getting a Cad 500 transplant. 77 C 30 dualie, 454, 4 speed with a 10 foot flatbed and hoist. It does the heavy work and hauls the projects around.

08-21-2017, 04:45 PM	#13
II_Slow Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Celeste, Tx Posts: 266	Re: 56 Crewcab on the Bay................... Sweet, the last post before yesterday was 2008. Remember that, boys and girls. That stuff you put out there on the web just might be there a while! __________________ 1955 SB Stepside 3100 big window cab on a 99 Ram 2500 Frame w/ 12-V Cummins diesel power and 47RH AOD transmission http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=640042

08-21-2017, 04:50 PM	#14
mr48chev Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toppenish, WA Posts: 15,711	Re: 56 Crewcab on the Bay................... Yuppers and someone who didn't read that is going nuts trying to find the truck on Ebay now. I knew it was an old thread because I remembered answering it the first time. __________________ Founding member of the too many projects, too little time and money club. My ongoing truck projects: 48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six. 71 GMC 2500 that is getting a Cad 500 transplant. 77 C 30 dualie, 454, 4 speed with a 10 foot flatbed and hoist. It does the heavy work and hauls the projects around.

08-23-2017, 05:26 PM	#16
Power Registered User Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Texas Posts: 30	Re: 56 Crewcab on the Bay................... I do think extended cab would be a lot easier if I had access to a 55-59 burban. Errr



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