2005 Chevrolet "Escalado" 3500

[Chuck Most]

Brad Kraft works as a mobile truck mechanic, so he spends a lot of time on the road. He also likes to make a solid first impression. His "escalated" Silverado is a comfortable place to be for long trips, with it's full Escalade interior conversion, and people remember it, with it's Escalade sheet metal, custom Cadillac style LED taillights, sterling silver paint and custom wheels. It had 250,000 miles on it before the conversion, he's hopeful to get at least that many more miles out of it now, even if it needs a drivetrain rebuild between now and then.

This is basically the front half of an AMT 2005 Cadillac Escalade EXT, with the rear cab bulkhead and window from a Revell '99 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The rear half is a Monogram 1977 GMC 4x4, and a Moebius service box. Wheels and tires came from the Moebius 1971 F250 4x4. It's painted Testors Extreme Lacquer Diamond Dust, powered by an Iceman Collections 6.6 Duramax, and registered with a Best Model Car Parts Michigan plate.

[iamsuperdan]

I like it!

Integrating the Caddy tail lights. 👍

[DJMar]

This is cool. I'm digging the bazooka sized exhaust tip! 

[bondo bill]

cool concept and build

[rchaffee]

Nice story and build!

[espo]

Beautiful looking body conversion and paint. Can't wait to see what you do with the left-over parts from this build. 

[PappyD340]

Awesome high end service truck!

[ybsluos]

You always impress Chuck!  Very well thought out and executed.  -Mark

[ksnow]

Sweet looking build. I remember when the Caddy conversions were all the rage for GM trucks.

[slusher]

Another fantastic build!   Looks like it was a kit build!

[ncbuckeye67]

That is really cool! Excellent work.