New Ride for Spring

A good friend of the my family built this in the late 80's early 90's. Since I was a little kid I sweated this thing. Bill sold the truck in the mid 90's and occasionally I would see it around then it disappeared ..fast forward to a few months ago Bill bought the truck back. I stopped by his house one day and we got to talkin about the truck. Bill just turned 80 years old and knows how much I've always loved it. A deal was struck and I'm now the owner...

The truck is based on a 77 B300 1 ton ambulance chassis mated with a 80's Dodge Maxi Van. Eventually I'd like to find a the proper Dodge dually bed but for now plans involve new tires for some rubber rake and dual exhaust with glass packs

East Coast Winters....

Looks like Bonge is going to be doing some digging out........
*not sure who took this pic so I'm gonna give photo credit to Steve Bonge*

The 58 gets Short

Well after a bunch of going back in forth I finally decided to take the plunge and convert my F100 to a SWB. Thanks to Deek from the HAMB for providing me with the measurements and my buddy Jeff for facilitating the fab work. (The pix are slightly out order...)

Here is what I started with:

At Jeff's shop:

Ladies & Germs.......Jeff Decker

I stumbled upon this Jeff Decker interview. It's always so rad to see someone so passionate about what they do and who they are.

Update: The Sentimental Van Project

Determined not to go through another 30 year restoration my dad and I have been really digging into the 66 A100. He has been doing most the work with me being an extra set of hands. After he stripped the interior and stainless he and I pulled the engine and all the glass. Next week I take the truck to get blasted and epoxy primed. I'm pretty stoked to see dad excited about his truck.*Note the use of the Fire helmet shell for a wheel-chock and the ridiculous use of two tires and a 1x6 for the Slant 6 to rest on*

Rubble Kings

RUBBLE KINGS TRAILER from shan nicholson on Vimeo.

This looks bad-ass...

Hot Rod Fall Out V

HRFO V came and went. Beautiful weather and a huge turnout of show cars. We couldn't have asked for a better show. Here are some random pix from the show. Unfortunately I don't have the names of the photographers with each photo. But I can tell you many were taken by Derek Jansen,Dan Johnson, Buddy Weeners and Mark J Besso