After getting hooked on the GM 55 - 59 Task Force Series, a string of trucks and truck pieces started collecting around me. I'd become a rust magnet. I picked up a rusty 57 short step "for parts".   It had too much left to scrap, and I had enough pieces to revive it.  I need another vehicle anyway, so the Frankentruck is born!

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    Cab off to fix'er up.    

    Clean it, Straighten it, Prime & Paint it    


Find a useable bed,       Patch it, Strengthen it, Slap in the Ply

   Pull apart the 57 panel (future project)

Park the panel body on it's "new" frame (now sold)   

    Rob the driveline and front body    

Scrap the really rotten panel frame


Clean up the pickup frame         still needs shocks


    Assemble new brakes and shocks.
Add driveline from panel and a Saginaw 3spd:   


    And with the interior bits, it starts to look like a promise of something    

Got the back glass in, fenders and doors repaired, and most of the wiring back together, but the cab needed a little tweaking back into shape for everything to fit [bit of a crash, which seems to have pushed the drivers cowl back a bit], and there wasn't time to fit it all before I got too busy in the fall, so it went on hold.



Then back to work in the spring . . . . . . . . . . .

             

Came along nicely.   Got the doors to fit quite well, the front sheet metal all fit, and after final cleaning and rust-proofing of the hidden spots, it got to final assembly and the touch-up paint.   The old windshield cracked on installation!!   A little tiddling up inside and it was ready for the road.

Together and official - it's a truck! - had a few shake down runs, and it's now a driver!