Stude Ute

A while back we did a thread on the fit of 53-54 C/K grill surrounds. Matthew won the prize for best fitting grills with his rusty ‘53 Coupe.

This is how the Ute’s turned out…

Not as good as Matthew’s, but acceptable.

The good news is the hood gaps are spot on perfect! That must have been an coincidence more than skill because some have been just terrible no matter how hard I tried.

In this picture, the Ute is loaded up on the trailer to go to the muffler shop today. It gets a simple 2″ exhaust system. Aluminized crush bent pipes, short turbo type mufflers, chrome pencil tip exhausts barely poking through the GT Hawk rear valance. Pictures tomorrow.

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Making progress, but continue to run into snags and surprises.

Brian Curtis came over yesterday and we bled the brakes, found and fixed all the leaks, installed the emergency brake system, throttle linkage, drive shaft, loosely put the front sheet metal together and maybe 10 other things. It helps to have another pair of hands…especially an expert pair like Brian’s.

It’s looking more like a car…

The paint’s not buffed out yet, so the rest of the sheet metal assembly will have to wait for that.

Dash is in…

The green top part ties in exactly to the painted sill on the doors.

You can barely see BondoBill’s S/N decal on the door post. The devil is in the details .

Still looking for a 53-55 C/K V8 shroud.

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