1960 GMC 1/2 ton fleetside 910

MissTiffanyKnight · Veteran Member

1960 GMC 1/2 ton fleetside 910

69-Tin Indian · Guru

Hey Tiff,
Gladda hear the shoulder is coming around for ya! Make it easier for ya to hold that torch eh? Looks like you're going right to town on the project! As far as my '61 GMC goes, I'm still amassing parts for it but am driving it every day as it's intact. Last week I did something I never thought I'd ever see myself do. I spray bombed it to protect it for the coming winter! I drive the truck year-round so I felt it was important to protect what's there. Actually it didn't even turn out to bad; for spray bombs that is. YIKES! Oh well, at least it's well protected until next spring when I start doing the tear-down and rebuild again. Keep us posted on your progress Tiff! Looking like you're getting lots done and one last thing, good luck should you get back into the racing again.
Kick butt girl! LOL!

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

MissTiffanyKnight · Veteran Member

Past week has been busy busy!!! Lots of degreasing and even the thaught of it makes me shutter. It lurks and when you think you have it all ......oh theres more!!!

lol. So the bottom of the cab is painted and the motor. In the picture it looks blue but i assure you it is not. It is alpine green, and added a bit of white to it with a lot of pearl. My firend, Myk came over to lay the paint down as I am not comfortable spraying anything that isnt primer smile

59poncho · Poncho Master!

looks awesome, i love seeing progress pics, makes me want to get out and get mine done!

timbuk · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

yes i recognize the bottom of the cab pix!keep up that progress its lots of work for sure!

69-Tin Indian · Guru

Just think! Once it's all done up, you can wear Alpine green eyeshadow to compliment it when at cruise nights! LOL! Sure is starting to look fabulous! It's great you're keeping us up to date with all that you're getting done to it. Can hardly wait to see the finished product. What colours will you be painting the exterior and interior Tiffany? I had thought of doing my '61 GMC in red, but with the 9-foot box it's just TOO MUCH RED! I'm going to go with the original dark blue of that particular year (the exact colour name escapes me at this moment in time) and then the interior I'm doing in a smokey/greyish blue; which is also an available colour for that year.

edneddie · Veteran Member

I really like the old gm trucks of all eras

65wagon · Poncho Master!

anyone with these vintage trucks need the original paint codes posted got two different sets

69-Tin Indian · Guru

Why not just post them anyways? Can't hurt. I got my paint chip board free from McGee's after I ordered a bunch of manuals. I had just sent an email asking if they had anything like that and Nicola said she'd send me one free of charge. I thought that was pretty nice of them. Some people might say, "Yeah, but how much did you spend on the manuals?" but they could have just as easily told me they want $5 to $20 for it; ya never know. So post it anyways it'd be great!

MissTiffanyKnight · Veteran Member

That would be neat to see the paint code chips... I wont be going stock colors but still a good thing for future refrence.

Heres a little view of the mockup of the 261 to the turbo 350.

-- Edited by MissTiffanyKnight on Tuesday 16th of November 2010 12:35:57 PM

MissTiffanyKnight · Veteran Member

Just a little update on the 60, been awhile.

So, next is the get the engine tranny back in and get the cab back on the frame and then waiting on disc brakes to show up and run the new lines and hopefully just hopefully get some paint in the cab.

Turn2Stone · Poncho Master!

so.......couple more weeks til first ride!? Looks great, I'd love to own one!

-- Edited by Turn2Stone on Monday 4th of April 2011 12:55:37 PM

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Hey that's going to be a neat little truck! I've always been a fan of the front end of the '60s, especially the hood!

Thanks for keeping us updated on your progress... it's fun watching a project come to light, especially when somebody else is doing the work! biggrin

By the way, here's a chart of the GMC commercial colors (below the Ford...), but they are for the US and I don't know if it's the same for Canada. Follow the link below:

http://www.tcpglobal.com/aclchip.aspx?image=1960-gmctruck-pg01.jpg

65wagon · Poncho Master!

oopps i forgot to post that, i need reminding sometimes ill get them up right away.some colors look the same but they very in tone you have to really fiddle with color if you are goig back to original

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Delta Tango · Guru

There was a fare amount of dialogue on the virtures of the 261 inline six in a performance point of view. Therefore I have "bumped" the thread from March sometime and perhaps Tiffany or anyone else interested in 261's read the thread "6=8".

For a six banger, the 261 was (can still be) a kick-ass engine.....in my view wink !

streetstock72 · Member

Hi Tiffany's dad here,she has been busy on the truck as of late and working a lot so I thought I would just post a quick update on her truck,she has the firewall painted and the cab back on the frame and is just waiting on the brake kit.I don't want to step on her toes so I will let her do the proper update on her progress.We are also working on my old street stock truck that she will be racing at Merrit until we sell it so our plate is really full this year! here is her truck as of today..

streetstock72 · Member

Hello Tiffany's dad again,she is busy these days so I am filling in for now,we got her unfinished truck to the DW Poppy car show in Langley BC last weekend and she got a lot of positive feed back on the truck and it made her feel great!We are still waiting on the disc brake kit and lines to go on next.Here are a few phone camera photos from the weekend.

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

LOOKIN GOOD!!!!

streetstock72 · Member

Tiffany is still waiting on the disc brake kit and lines!They want to ship the whole order so they are waiting on the drop spindles......

streetstock72 · Member

Tiffany front Disc brake kit and drop spindle kit finally came in the other so we will be posting update pic's again.

67Poncho · Uber Guru

Great progress... Keep the pics coming!!

streetstock72 · Member

Tiffany has a update,we had time today to move my race car and race chassis out of the shop and roll Tiffanys truck onto the 2 poster to get that drop spindle kit on and PB setup.Tiffany was real excited and we got everything apart except the right side lower joint! It was frozen and we broke 2 pickle forks to try and free it.Off to the parts store tomorrow for a new industrial strength pickle and and hopefully I can get some replacement lower ball joint dust cover/boots.Here she is just before we started.

Backed off those torsion bars first!