'57 Ford Pickup Conversion Started

[bobss396]

I jumped into this a couple weeks back. I'm using the AMT '60 Ford pickup and the Foose '53-ish truck kit. I'm also using a '57 conversion from Texas 3D. The hood needs work, but he is remastering it.

A lot of slice & dice work with all the woes along the way. I added the rear 4-link and have a bed interference.

The bed is shortened 22 scale inches. I made the bed floor from diamond plate stock. Gas tank is a Norm Veber item. Wheels & tires from VCG Resins. 

The interior is done, less arm rests and window handles.

[espo]

Great looking design and like how you raised the bed floor only where needed in the center instead of all the way across as normally seen. 

[Mr. Metallic]

Looking good.

Curious what the issue is with the Texas 3D hood? I have one currently in the mail so I want to know what I need to fix.

[Oldriginal86]

That shift handle is a conversation starter. Rest of the interior looks great too. 

[bobss396]

4 hours ago, Oldriginal86 said:

That shift handle is a conversation starter. Rest of the interior looks great too. 

I believe it was a VCG Resins piece. Thanks. I have some window handles and arm rests from ESS Resinworks. No part pictures of the window handles, they are hard to see.

I had to relieve part of the bed do the 4-link and coilovers had clearance. The bed cover hides everything anyway. 

[Dtimmerman89]

Ford trucks and lots of custom work calling my name.

I grew up in an all Chevy family. Anything else was almost sacreliguous. Then as a teen, I found late 20's and 30's Fords, which lead to 40's and 50's Fords and completely obsessed with 60's Fords. Especially all of the trucks of those generations. They made absolutely beautiful vehicles. 

[bobss396]

I worked on the truck late last night. The bed fits the chassis finally.

I had to open the firewall (I added a piece to mount the master & booster) to clear the driver side valve cover. I closed up the passenger side by 1/8".

The fender wells interfered with the upper control arms, those were opened up. They will be covered with aluminum pieces I made. The ones pictured might be made bigger. Possibly may add a firewall piece. 

I'm slowly working the fit bugs out of it 

[FoMoCo66]

This one's lookin' real good. I always liked the 57's over thr rest of that body style. 

[bobss396]

I extended the inner fender pieces to meet the radiator wall.

I'm playing around with a possible firewall cover too, same .010" aluminum material. 

[Dtimmerman89]

A shaved firewall would look pretty sick. It's crazy how much of it you had to remove to fit the frame with the engine in It's place. It's moved so far back, you could run it as a race truck. 

Edited Thursday at 03:20 PM by Dtimmerman89

[bobss396]

22 hours ago, Dtimmerman89 said:

A shaved firewall would look pretty sick. It's crazy how much of it you had to remove to fit the frame with the engine in It's place. It's moved so far back, you could run it as a race truck. 

The '60 kit firewall piece, I deleted it. That's where all the space came from. Some of the opening I closed up. I needed a spot for the master & booster. I had to remove sone of that to clear a valve cover. I may have to revisit that.

The '60 floor pan needed help to give me transmission space. I cut that area out, spliced in part of the Foose floor/tunnel.

I have to take pix in a bit. I filled the hood holes in the firewall. Just too ugly for me.

[bobss396]

The exhaust is sorted out. On the Foose truck it is routed differently. So I made new front pipes from aluminum tubing.

The firewall is ready for primer.

[Geno]

Oh man, I can't wait to see the finished product. I love the '57 Ford trucks. It's a shame they don't get the love of the Chevy counterparts. I think the Ford is a better looking truck.

[bobss396]

13 hours ago, Geno said:

Oh man, I can't wait to see the finished product. I love the '57 Ford trucks. It's a shame they don't get the love of the Chevy counterparts. I think the Ford is a better looking truck.

Thanks, without the '57 grille, I'd never jump into one. 

[Nosferatu]

This is looking great! I love the seat cover design!

Dave

[bobss396]

21 hours ago, Nosferatu said:

This is looking great! I love the seat cover design!

Dave

Thanks. These are old decals and they still went on easily. I still may do the top of the dash.