1957 Chevy Truck "Ole Blue" is getting converted to a short bed!

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We trade a 1960s Big Internation Harvester Truck cab for a short bed for "Ole Blue". Ole Blue is our barn find 1957 Chevy 3200 series long bed step side pickup truck. He was pulled from a barn in Dale County Alabama where he had been in the same family since 1960. Check out our previous videos to see the whole story. Ole Blue was built in Atlanta Georgia and was born with a 235ci 6 cylinder and a 3 speed on the column, or "3 on the tree". I plan to LS swap the truck with a LS1, ported 243 heads, and a Tick Performance Polluter cam kit. Probably a 4L80E over drive automatic, but I'm kind of torn between it and a Muncie 4 speed. Either and M21 or M20, we don't have any M22 rock crushers. Ole Blue will then be my new daily driver and ill sell the LS swapped s10 that's my current daily. I'll probably never restore Ole Blue completely, but just try and preserve the patina and current state without letting the truck get any rougher. Kinda like a 1957 version of the Roadkill muscle truck. Just gonna need a good radio.
The plan now since I found the bed is to shorten the frame and convert the 3200 to essentially a 3100 series truck. or 3/4-ton LWB to a 1/2-ton SWB. I plan to keep the 6 lug all the way around and run those killer 15x6 and 15x8 slotted mags we have! I will do a disk brake conversion up front though. Hopefully we can find a 6-lug disk brake rear end with a good gear and a locker.
We also score some cool vintage speed parts on this trip and a few 57 Chevy part for our 1957 Chevy 150.
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@kennethsonier1766 Жыл бұрын

Part of the fun is locating parts and meeting fellow enthusiasts. You found some cool stuff. Keep up the good work and God bless you and your family 👍✌️🇺🇲

@323Fabrication Жыл бұрын

That’s one of my favorite things about being into hotrods, is all the awesome folks you get to meet. Thank you! I really appreciate that

@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you got what you like. I may still sell them but they used to sell the corner cat to get rid of that spare tire space on the fender. But then I've known guys who put him in the fender on the other side so they can have two spares because they wanted to look the same on left and right. Important thing is that you get what you like. You know I've got a 1962 GMC 8 ft stepside bed and it still has the original floor in it. Would of course. And I've had it since the mid-eighties and it had 30,000 miles something like that. Tree fell across the cab made a pickup bed trailer out of it and had a camper shell on it to protect the bed. Never really used it for anyting too often much. I did paint it with some leftover Carmine red from a 77 Camaro some years way back but any case it is very nice-looking bed. I'm glad you got what you want and I look forward to seeing the project as you build it

@323Fabrication Жыл бұрын

I just enjoy all this old junk! I’d have pump another long bed on it if I had found a decent one at a good price, but I dig short beds and don’t mine shortening the truck

@victorrobinson9116 Жыл бұрын

FYI add some ammonia and a bowl and put it in the cab of the truck to make sure the Mice or rats don't come back

@323Fabrication Жыл бұрын

Good info thank yiu

@fosterakers7198 Жыл бұрын

Got to leave the gun rack,,,,to tote the old winchester around

@323Fabrication Жыл бұрын

That’s right!

@felipec.1188 Жыл бұрын

I just bought the same exact truck I will definitely be tuning into this build. Can you please do me a small favor I need footage of the driver side of motor and transmission on next video please.. I need to see the linkage to the clutch and z bar if possible. I can’t find it no where on the internet of the way it’s supposed to look like stock

@323Fabrication Жыл бұрын

I’ll make a short about it when I get to the shop after work. Thank you for tuning in, it might be awhile before we get back on it, but I’m excited about it!

@markmoats2456 Жыл бұрын

The gold grill and the v on the hood is a Belair only item

@323Fabrication Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info, I didn’t know that. Just gonna run what I can find. We are on the way home from moultrie now with a truck full of parts

@markmoats2456 Жыл бұрын

@@323Fabrication I'm going to Carlisle car show and swap meet in April 22 in Carlisle pa it's the biggest swap meet east Last time I went there was like 300 vendors and like 500-1000 cars on display and for sale

@323Fabrication Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome! We got a bunch of parts for the 57 Chevy 150. There was a good turn out here but it wasn’t that big

@fosterakers7198 Жыл бұрын

Gonna be bad ass

@323Fabrication Жыл бұрын

No doubt!

@justinraystyles3537 Жыл бұрын

Love the channel but never liked short bed trucks kind of useless to me im a long bed guy!😎 btw that gold grill is gonna look awesome on that bel air!😎👍

@323Fabrication Жыл бұрын

I like a long bed for a work truck, both the duallys are long beds. But I love a short bed on a hotrod truck, I still use that short bed LS swapped s10 for hauling stuff all the time. Thank you I was stoked to find the grill and grill bar that wasn’t to busted!