Custom Chevy Truck up date 2/25

[Steven Zimmerman]

This is lookin pretty good !.....'Z'

[Terror]

very nice custom work.It would be cool to see an extend cab one too.wink wink.

[Tumbler75]

First off Hats off to ONE OUTSTANDING SCRATCHBUILD! The sectioning, molding, mixing and matching of everything is really coming together nicely! I myself am waiting for another spectacular update on this! Keep up the outstanding work.

[BiggC]

Looks great John!! Always nice to see your work.

[tooltas]

what are u going used for power 409 or small block vette

[customsrus]

what are u going used for power 409 or small block vette

I will use the 409 out of the elco,but it will have to be modified to look right.Or I might find a donner 409 that will work, either way it will be big block powered.

[tylersloan]

looks killer i love the early 60's style customs !

would it be to much to ask for you to PM me or email me the article from this so i could build my own ?

you can email me at tylersloan9304@yahoo.com

[customsrus]

Update. reworked the front suspension a little and added motor mounts.Made frame horns longer.Added a little bracing to underside of hood

Fab up a hood latch and striker.

Edited April 10, 2011 by customsrus

[customsrus]

Got a little primer on it to see what it looks like, need to clean up a few areas.

[Tony T]

Nice build so far!

[customsrus]

Nice build so far!

Thanks.

[Guest JamesDE]

Man this is way cool!!! I have been drooling over the magazine rendering for a month now, and you started the actual build.... Im glad someone did... Nice work!

[Mike Kucaba]

Really really great work!! keep it up

[tylersloan]

what issue is this in ? i would love to get a copy of the issue . great custom work on the body and frame cant wait to see this finished .

[Danno]

Looking good.

[customsrus]

Been awhile since I had an update. So I did a little work to the truck managed to do the tail lights and work on the grille.

Tail lights

I made 2 diferent grilles which looks better. the first one is similar to the drawing I still have to put mesh behind everything.

The second one is a modified elcamino unit. I will have to fix the grille opening to accept this grille.

[Dr. Cranky]

Making great progress. Take your CRANKY VITAMINS and keep it going!

[customsrus]

Making great progress. Take your CRANKY VITAMINS and keep it going!

I ran out of CRANKY VITAMINS, maybe thats why building this model is taking so long

[PTEAZA]

COOOOL

[Space Cowboy]

An outstanding bit of scratch building and body work. This will be a super build to show off proudly.................

[customsrus]

Alright guys, thanks for the kind words. Worked on the rear grille area again. Took an old license plate out of the parts box added plastic to all sides did alittle shaping added the "wings" to both sides. Once I put the wings on I put a piece of plastic to the back of the it to make it stronger, the wings are very weak without the back support. Hope you like it.

[customsrus]

Here is what it looks like on the truck, still need to add some mesh and the chrome bullets to it.

Edited May 19, 2011 by customsrus

[Danno]

Kewl.

[customsrus]

Update. Did not like anything about this model everything was going terribly wrong, so I ended its short life by putting it on the floor and stomping on it. Just kidding,LOL. I did not like any of the previous front grilles I made so I started on a new one. Took plastic tubing and flat stock and made a grille that is a little more like the original drawing, it is not exactly like the drawing but a liitle tweeking here and there and it will do. all pieces will be sanded smooth and the I will use alcad chrome to finish it, this will be the first time I used this chrome so wish me luck. Here are the pictures and thanks for looking.

This is what it looks loike in the truck.

[mikechevelle69]

This is super awesome can't wait to see it done!