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.   
      
   That was the one you were asking if anyone knew where to find fenders for   
   it?   
      
    CH> Ended up selling it.  My neighbor does plowing and it's worth just   
    CH> paying him.   
      
   My dad had a lawn tractor and he loved to cut grass with it. In exchange   
   for the neighbor using it to plow snow out of the driveway 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.   
      
   This is a 56 Chevy Del Rey. I drove it about 100 miles to get it home, but   
   it was a nightmare doing so. No brakes unless you stood on them, no power   
   steering, so it steered like a heavy truck and the previous owner raised   
   the rear-end so he could get some wide tires under it. Shocks were bad, so   
   it bounced over every bump in the road to the extent of near   
   uncontrollability. Today it has power disc brakes up front, power rack and   
   pinion steering and the rear end sits where it did when it was stock and   
   sports new shocks too. I also added AC and a modern, yet nearly the same   
   looking as the original 56 radio so I can have some tunes. Then a 350   
   engine 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.   
      
   Here's a link to the ride home in the 56...and some of my Z28 too.   
      
   http://www.rayyoung.org/NEW_PAGE_6.HTM   
      
      
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