Thought some of you might find this interesting. The Price of 50.000 plus sure take all the fun out of building your own, but interesting nonetheless. This company is probably buying parts from the site previously listed as "new cab"' http://www.carolinarodshop.com/current_proj/html_files/smc_home_pg.html Makers site is: http://www.southernmotorcompany.com/ TB'sD
Pretty funny Here I am at my local Ford dealership with my 1954 Chevrolet 3100 needing warranty service. Sure that will happen ? Interesting is probably being polite. $55k is huge sure they have people lining up to buy these Sorry I will stick to my below 17k investment and drive the real thing. Plus I can pull into my own garage anytime for my own self warranty coverage-(As in out of my own back pocket).
Lol You fellows ar just tooooo much. I sure do get a laught out of some of the responses on here.. I do agree, I would MUCh rather have the Boops truck with a chevy engine, chevy parts, and the chevy name. I do wonder how many will line up to purchase one though. BTW- for ONLY $10.000 you can pre-purchase,,, and you get to drive it before you have to pay the additional $45.000.00. Sounds like a deal to me TB'sD
Ha Boopster, how about send me $10.00-(or 1 six pac will do) I will put your money into my pocket-(will show not any interest & also not returnable) then you come up North and I will let you drive my 1954 real deal.
The Real Deal I must have been really needing a laugh this morning after sulking over my Boops truck. For the las few minutes, every time your previous post crosses my mind I laugh out loud LOL. Depends on a pack of what? You might have a deal.... TB'sD
I am onto my "winter" beer up here. Only 36 degrees out today with snow coming on Monday. Around here we drink Yuengling Lager. Anyway let me how your road testing goes in 2008
Outdoor beer cooler The only redeeming factor about "36 degrees with snow" is that your back yard can become a huge cooler to keep your beer cold!
Well guys, you can go out to your garages and give your trucks a satisfying pat, copying is the sincerest form of flattery, just goes to show that after all these years these trucks are so good they want to make replicas, Im just smug that my ones a real honest to goodness original!!!!! Winter, its good sometimes, coming out and having trouble opening the door cos the door seal is frozen, then hoping it will start, when it does you do the stalling dance, the one where your de-iceing the windows and have to keep running round to keep the engine from stalling while its on choke, you know, where you listen for the rump d rump to get to a rump.....d........rump and any minute its gonna choke up and not start again, and ice inside your windows because your heater isn't like the blast from a merlin jet engine, seriously now, I like a spell of winter, gives the sun a vacation, but at least you know its cold and the roads can catch you out, unlike new cars, warm in 2 mins, windows electrically de-frosted in 30 secs, you dont notice how cold and icey it really is, and I wonder when idiotic drivers will realise abs don't work on black ice, new motors detatch you from the elements too much and make you feel invincible. sorry ranting on a bit. On a lighter note, just watched "cars" the pixar movie, as a gear head i loved it! had some dark times recently so it was just what the doctor ordered. ________ Interracial Vid
Great post brit- how true, how true! Sorry the gray slipped into you, if you're feeling down, just remember how many of us would be willing to help you out with that CHEAP engine you got!
The grey is my old man, as my brother put it, "keep your reciepts for his christmas presents, you may need them" comes to us all one day. Got to go back to the south of France again today, could do without that. on a lighter note: Cheap engine???? do you know how much a gasket set is? and how long its gonna take to put all those new bits back together!!!!!! guess its just not my lucky day, ________ Anal sex
I have heard some other chat on this truck and folks have said that the reason it has Ford running gear in it is because GM wouldn't agree to do warranty work for them, Ford would.
You know guys this southern truck is a great looking truck. I love the car front end on it and everything. But this truck is for the rich people who have alot of money and NO talent to build it themselves. People who buy their vehicle already done and don't know anything about it, then show it and stick their noses up to us who build ours really piss me off. Okay enough preaching for the day. I can't wait to put my truck into a show with one of these trucks and rub my best of show trophy in their face. Then pull out of the show feeling good about myself that I built my truck, not bought it off of the assembly line. Okay I promise NOW no more preaching
Tag! It just goes to show you how hard F*%# will go to discredit GM. GM wouldn't put a drivetrain in it, but F+*@ will? Really, as the song says, "I FEEEEEL GOOD! I knew that I would...." If Southern isn't telling us we have taste in our rides- who is?! (And I lived in SC for a year and a bit also- for whatever that's worth.) If I had that kinda' money, I'd STILL rebuild(?) my own from the ground up! I remember the couple of months I drove my RESTORED 1950 at the tender age of 16. Every little noise it made, I knew where it came from and what was the cause. Why? It was MY BABY! These people are buying a look- they'll never have what we have. Just my thoughts.
Yeah ; I guess it's cool that the folks who don't ' Ken ' the mechanic bit can enjoy these old trucks too sorta-kinda . Me , I'll be far happier rattling & wheezing down a deserted desert highway in my rusty POC '49 than I could possibly be in any new truck Someday I'll be forced to drive a newer vehicle , untill then , life's too short to drive a new truck ! .
Well, if $55K is too much it looks like dynacorn http://www.dynacornclassicbodies.com/about_us.htmlhas a new cab and doors available (or soon to be) for a mere $8995 plus $295 shipping
New METAL cabs ?! ?!?! they have STEEL '69 Chevelle bodies ?! I assume the AD cab is all metal too ? they don't state in the page but that sure looks sweet to me .
Hello Nate Ive been reding your post for about a year now. Brings bac old times. I may be one of the older ones on the forum. Just registered tonite. I have a 54 3100 trying to redo.
