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Old 04-18-2021, 04:24 AM   #126
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Lots of body mods here. It can be yours for $35,000 USD.
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Old 04-18-2021, 03:09 PM   #127
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Looks like it is chopped about 5 inches.
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Old 04-19-2021, 12:32 PM   #128
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Somehow that truck just doesn't work for me. It has a lot of nice work on it but the paint, the chop, and the wheels all together just don't look right. Maybe someone with $35K will disagree with me and take it home.
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Old 04-19-2021, 10:51 PM   #129
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Somehow that truck just doesn't work for me. It has a lot of nice work on it but the paint, the chop, and the wheels all together just don't look right. Maybe someone with $35K will disagree with me and take it home.
I'd say paint is 70 % of what won't fly for most folks and will be a real deal killer for a lot of guys who could afford the truck. Not the colors and not the combination but the design that they were put on with. The "rims" while you can change them easy enough are on the super gaudy side and just like the paint are 100 percent love or hate.

Still buy that truck, take it a thousand miles or more from where it calls home base and you stand a pretty good chance of winning a few awards over the next rod run/car show/cruise night season.

As far as I know it has never been in big time show coverage, never been featured in a magazine and is not so connected to the ower nationally that you always get the "hey you are the guy who bought _______'s old truck. The kind of thing you would get if you bought Youngrodder's truck. Every car freak an truck guy in the world knows that truck and it will be connected to him no matter who might own it.
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Old 04-22-2021, 10:24 PM   #130
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Old 04-23-2021, 02:27 PM   #131
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That shot of the two tone yellow one in post 130 looks like some of the indoor car show photos I took 15 years ago. Too much flash and the florescent lights play havoc with the photo.

Nice truck that needs a less of a stuck in the 90's paint job.
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Old 04-23-2021, 04:02 PM   #132
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In my opinion an AD truck is not easy to two-tone and make it look right. There's not a crease or line to paint to.
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Old 04-23-2021, 07:29 PM   #133
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In my opinion an AD truck is not easy to two-tone and make it look right. There's not a crease or line to paint to.
The issue with both of those yellow trucks is that who ever decided on the paint pattern was following the hot lick trend of the month rather than going with a tried and true two tone paint pattern. On either one if they had painted the top the lighter shade and the body from the belt line down the darker they would look a lot less dated. Even painting the body and top one shade and the fenders the other would be a lot better.
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Old 05-08-2021, 03:38 AM   #134
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Old 05-15-2021, 11:51 PM   #135
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I found this one today while looking though an album of photos from the 1973 NSRA Street Rod Nationals in Tulsa. I remember seeing it and taking a couple of photos.

It was one of four or five 1948 Chev and GMC trucks at the 73 Nationals including my 48.
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Old 05-16-2021, 12:23 AM   #136
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WOW, never saw that one before!


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Old 05-16-2021, 08:00 PM   #137
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Is that grass growing on the top?
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Old 05-17-2021, 02:34 PM   #138
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I'm not sure, Admittedly we did some strange things in 1973 and it could be grass or it could be something thrown up there for someone to sit or lay on. There weren't that many cars at the event by today's standards but the count was mind boggling by 1973 standards. I think I probably took 7 or 8 rolls of 26 photos with my instamatic at the event and that was a lot of photos to take and have developed in 1973.
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Old 05-17-2021, 03:13 PM   #139
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I'm not sure, Admittedly we did some strange things in 1973 and it could be grass or it could be something thrown up there for someone to sit or lay on. There weren't that many cars at the event by today's standards but the count was mind boggling by 1973 standards. I think I probably took 7 or 8 rolls of 26 photos with my instamatic at the event and that was a lot of photos to take and have developed in 1973.
Speaking of strange things in 1973, came back from Vietnam to find my ad was being stripped in the secure parking area at Neliis AFB. USAF did compensate me a little.
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Old 06-19-2021, 03:50 AM   #140
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Old 06-20-2021, 12:40 AM   #141
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My buddy would absolutely love that burb with the hard chop. He would walk around showing photos he printed of it for days.
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I hope that thing has been finished, looks pretty cool!


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Old 06-28-2021, 12:17 AM   #145
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That poor old girl looks as forlorn as my truck does right now,
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That poor old girl looks as forlorn as my truck does right now,
But you probably don't have backwards fenders...
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Old 07-01-2021, 02:49 PM   #147
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Nice purple one that belongs to Gary Castillo Sr that popped up on the net this morning.
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Nice purple one that belongs to Gary Castillo Sr that popped up on the net this morning.
I like everything about it!
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Nice purple one that belongs to Gary Castillo Sr that popped up on the net this morning.
It's sectioned too, I want to see more of that one!


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