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52 Chevy Pickup With Complete C5 Suspension and Drivetrain

Well, everyone keeps telling me that I should start a build thread on this 52 Chevy truck we are building. I tried to push it off on the owner, but it turns out that he doesn't even own a computer. Is that even possible anymore!?

So anyhow here it is... The truck came to us as an ex pro street basket case. We are doing a complete custom build on it. It's getting a Torque 3G chassis that uses all C5 components. Some of the performance upgrades will be big brakes, coilover suspension, and a worked LS1 with a Kenne Bell blower. It's going to run a 6L80e transmission.

We are keeping an old school theme, it will feel (to me) more like a pro street car. With the vette chassis it will be a pro touring car at heart though. The owner plans to autoX it, and take it to some vintage races.

Here are the initial renderings...
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...uck/truck1.jpg
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...uck/truck2.jpg
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...uck/truck3.jpg

And here is the truck when we got it...
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...uck/truck4.jpg
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...uck/truck5.jpg

We immediately bust out the green tape so that there's no misconceptions. This is going to get some major surgery,

http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...uck/truck6.jpg

I had the same idea. I'm in the process of buy a 1950 Chevy pick-up and do the same or make it a Rat Rod. The rendering looks great. Keep us post with progress.:bow: :thumbsup:

In the mean-time we began construction of the chassis.

http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...uck/truck7.jpg
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...uck/truck8.jpg
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...uck/truck9.jpg

The perimeter frame rails go on once the chassis is under the car, and use the factory body mount locations.

http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...ck/truck10.jpg

Here we are taking measurements to see how much we will have to widen the body. We want to run rims with a good sized lip on them.

http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...ck/truck11.jpg

At that time we also started to get creative with the back of the truck.

http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...ck/truck12.jpg
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...ck/truck13.jpg

We sent the cab out to get media blasted, and started marking up the donor cab. Any guess what's coming next?

http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...ck/truck14.jpg
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...ck/truck15.jpg
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...ck/truck16.jpg

We drop the bed back on, then start working out tail. I say we should have just ironed out the foil and called it good. :thumbsup:

http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...ck/truck26.jpg
http://www.eckertsrodandcustom.com/t...ck/truck27.jpg