Supercharged '65 Chevy Stepside

[pcm1977]

This truck was supposed to be a quick build, something to tow the trailer with my 68 Mustang Drag (Link) on it.  I quickly purchased the Revell '65 Chevy Stepside Pickup 2 'n 1 to take the place of an AMT 1953 Ford Pickup Street Machine that I simply failed at when building.  I was going to make the custom version of the truck straight out of the box and paint it with the same rattle can red as what I painted the trailer it is going to be towing.  However if you look at the pictures you will soon discover that I got a bit carried away with some customizing of my own.

I went through my parts box and managed to find the stuff to put a supercharger and such on top of the engine.

As you notice I also found am air horn...so I put it in the extra space in the engine compartment.

I then looked over and saw a piece of styrene laying on the desk and decided that a truck like this needed a fiberglass tonneau cover over the bed.  I made a custom spoiler for the cover also.

I could not leave the bed alone and had to put some wood and strips of styrene painted chrome.

The mirrors are from the 68 Mustang (who needs mirrors on a drag car anyway??).

 

(the truck is straight, the board it is on is not)

The last thing I did to finish the custom job on this truck was to put a custom exhaust on the bottom.  I used some solder to make the pipes and added to round styrene for the mufflers.  Once again I stole something from the 68 Mustang, the exhaust tips finish it out, don't you think?  Thanks for looking

     

 

 

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[espo]

Really nice pick up.

[crazyjim]

I really like that puppy.  Looks cool.  may I suggest putting a wash on the grille?

[kilrathy10]

This truck is just too cool.....Excellent work, my friend.....Beautiful....

[slusher]

Very nice..

[pcm1977]

Thank you everyone for the positive feedback.

crazyjim - I was looking at that when I was editing the pictures and agree that the grill needs a little bit more.  I have never given a chrome part a black wash, this might just be my first I will try.

[TFchronos]

Sweet Build!

[RAMBENNA]

sweet truck , looks great

 

[pcm1977]

Thanks, it was a fun build.

[DumpyDan]

Awesome truck, love the color

[gatorincebu]

 

     Very nice looking custom ! You did some real nice work on this project .

 

 

   Be Well

    Gator