My Pro Street '56 GMC Pick'em Up

[Green 1959]

How's it going? Love this thread!

[BC Toy chest]

Originally Posted by Green 1959

How's it going? Love this thread!

Hey Green '59 thanks for the compliment & dropping by. I haven't given up on the truck, as I said before many other times, "Life happens" and I don't get to spend the time with it as I would like.

The up coming photos is where I'm at now .....kind of picking up where I last left off.
The one piece door glass install. The left door glass is in and works gr8 and currently working on the right side. Also I have been working on my '67 El Camino another reason I am behind in getting my truck done.

[BC Toy chest]

So I need to back track to explain how I screwed things up.

I did not know at the time when I sold my old wing/vent windows just like the one in the photo below that I would need some of the parts to make my new one piece windows work properly when I install them.

So to fix my problem I went over to my friends house Donnie with the '57 Chevy truck with the Jag suspension I have been posting photos of on my page.

I had to remove one of his vent windows to measure and take pictures of a part & make a card board template, I need to make for my truck. Then I went out and got some scrap metal and started the fab work and follow the directions posted by blackdiesel http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=366078&page=4

WELL "stupid is as stupid does" when I went to my friends house to measure the vent window channel parts I failed to measure the actual channel opening and width. Of course when it came time to put everything together it should have been no surprise certain things didn't fit right and the window did not roll all the way up. I will show what I did to fix it.

[BC Toy chest]

WELL "stupid is as stupid does" when I went to my friends house to measure the vent window channel parts I failed to measure the actual channel opening and width. Of course when it came time to put everything together it should have been no surprise certain things didn't fit right and the window did not roll all the way up. I will show what I did to fix it.
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[BC Toy chest]

WELL "stupid is as stupid does" when I went to my friends house to measure the vent window channel parts I failed to measure the actual channel opening and width. Of course when it came time to put everything together it should have been no surprise certain things didn't fit right and the window did not roll all the way up. I will show what I did to fix it. The window regulator has to be notched anyway and I thought that was going to be enough, but my channel was still a little too wide and I had to notch that as well and put a couple of (temporary spacers in photo)spacers at the bottom of the channel for proper clearance from the regulator/scissor mechanism.

THEN AFTER fixing my screw up I can attempt to do it right the rest of the way
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[slammed57]

Gosh BC . Lookin REAL good..are you goin to use the stock door latches or bear claws..iam gettin ready to do the one piece windows myself (perfect timing woth you doin most of the hard part, figuring it out.lol) but it looks to be REAL close fittin for bear claws. Whatcha think??
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[lower50's]

Your truck looks good in the sun. Glad you and your truck didn't get hurt. Love the first red c10

[BC Toy chest]

Originally Posted by lower50's

Your truck looks good in the sun. Glad you and your truck didn't get hurt. Love the first red c10

Thanks lower50's. You know it's crazy and i gotta get my priorities in order. But the first thing that popped into my head was ohhh man glad it didn't land on my truck WHAT about me or a family member or friend it fell on. I said Lord forgive me for thinking so shallow. It's just a hunk of metal. I can't take it with me when I kick the bucket.

[BC Toy chest]

Originally Posted by slammed57

Gosh BC . Lookin REAL good..are you goin to use the stock door latches or bear claws..iam gettin ready to do the one piece windows myself (perfect timing woth you doin most of the hard part, figuring it out.lol) but it looks to be REAL close fittin for bear claws. Whatcha think??
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Yes Slammed57 I have the stock door latches, and striker plates none of it original all brand new. I stress brand new because i saw a guy turn a corner on a frwy exit in his fully restored'56 Chevy truck and his passenger door flew open. I pulled along side of him and told him don't feel bad the same thing happened to me that's why you don't use the old door latches and mechanisms. He said he was going to replace'em asap. He was white as a ghost he nearly had a heart attack it scared him so bad.

Yep Bear claws are better way to go. But i haven't had any issues with my new parts so I am just going to stick with the old set up. I saw a '57 Chevy truck at the SEMA show with the manual one piece glass set up bear claws and couldn't figure out how he had the room to position the metal channel for the felt and window. I am sure there is some one on here that shows how it's done I just haven't searched for it yet.

Thanks for comin' by to take a peek. When you get the window figured out with the bear claws keep me posted I have a couple friends doing the same as you, but have not yet gotten to the point yet in their builds.

[slammed57]

Originally Posted by BC Toy chest

Yes Slammed57 I have the stock door latches, and striker plates none of it original all brand new. I stress brand new because i saw a guy turn a corner on a frwy exit in his fully restored'56 Chevy truck and his passenger door flew open. I pulled along side of him and told him don't feel bad the same thing happened to me that's why you don't use the old door latches and mechanisms. He said he was going to replace'em asap. He was white as a ghost he nearly had a heart attack it scared him so bad.

Yep Bear claws are better way to go. But i haven't had any issues with my new parts so I am just going to stick with the old set up. I saw a '57 Chevy truck at the SEMA show with the manual one piece glass set up bear claws and couldn't figure out how he had the room to position the metal channel for the felt and window. I am sure there is some one on here that shows how it's done I just haven't searched for it yet.

Thanks for comin' by to take a peek. When you get the window figured out with the bear claws keep me posted I have a couple friends doing the same as you, but have not yet gotten to the point yet in their builds.

Will do. have a happy thanks giving my friend

[BC Toy chest]

Some more kool trucks I took pics of @ the 2016 SEMA Show