On Sun Feb-27-2011 11:06, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Craig Healy:   
      
    RW> 25 Feb 11 08:37, Craig Healy wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RW> -> I've been thinking about you ever since I moved to Texas. That is,   
    RW> ev time I drive by this old Chevy truck. It's a 48-52 (center   
    RW> windshield -> post) and is of the large variety, aka 1 ton. I   
    RW> remember you requesti -> the whereabouts of one of these for a   
    RW> project you had, a long time -> ago.   
      
    CH> I had some early Chevy trucks.  One I got from a brother in law, but   
    CH> I sold it.  The other was a '47 1.5 ton.  Just the cab.  I put it on   
    CH> a mid-80's shortened school bus chassis to make a plow truck for my   
    CH> driveway.   
      
    RW> That was the one you were asking if anyone knew where to find   
    RW> fenders for it?   
      
    CH> Ended up selling it.  My neighbor does plowing and it's worth just   
    CH> paying him.   
      
    RW> My dad had a lawn tractor and he loved to cut grass with it. In   
    RW> exchange for the neighbor using it to plow snow out of the driveway   
    RW> and sidewalks, he cut the neighbors grass too.   
      
    CH> -> The guy who owns it did some welding for me on a 56 Chevy project   
    CH> a -> few years ago, which is when I noticed this truck.   
      
    CH> Older Chevy trucks are fun projects.   I wish I'd taken pictures back   
    CH> then.   Some of the cars I had would be classics today.  A 1960   
    CH> Thunderbird convertible that was a factory standard shift, for   
    CH> example. Three speed on the column.  Never saw another anywhere.   
    CH> Bought from one of my college instructors around 1969.  Sold it not   
    CH> too much later and kicked myself as it was driven away.   
      
    RW> This is a 56 Chevy Del Rey. I drove it about 100 miles to get it   
    RW> home, but it was a nightmare doing so. No brakes unless you stood   
    RW> on them, no power steering, so it steered like a heavy truck and   
    RW> the previous owner raised the rear-end so he could get some wide   
    RW> tires under it. Shocks were bad, so it bounced over every bump in   
    RW> the road to the extent of near uncontrollability. Today it has   
    RW> power disc brakes up front, power rack and pinion steering and the   
    RW> rear end sits where it did when it was stock and sports new shocks   
    RW> too. I also added AC and a modern, yet nearly the same looking as   
    RW> the original 56 radio so I can have some tunes. Then a 350 engine   
    RW> with a 700R4 over-drive automatic.   
      
    CH> -> CH> Got some pictures and more description at:   
    CH> -> CH> http://www.craighealy.com/blazer/   
    CH> ->   
    CH> -> My browser isn't running at the moment, but I promise I'll take a   
    CH> -> look at your project pictures.   
      
    CH> And I'm always happy to see other people's projects.   
      
    RW> Here's a link to the ride home in the 56...and some of my Z28 too.    
      
    RW> http://www.rayyoung.org/NEW_PAGE_6.HTM   
      
   Interesting pictures, especially of your Z28.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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