I have a friend named Andrew who has unique skills. They are unique and don't seem to be very limited. He is the type person that can do just about anything he sets his mind to. One of his projects has been this truck and it is absolutely unique. If you are a chevy lover you are going to hate it.
We live in a state that has a 25 year age limit on smog inspections and this truck is a 1983. Nevertheless, he has complied with the state requirements for smog on this swap.
We live in a state that has a 25 year age limit on smog inspections and this truck is a 1983. Nevertheless, he has complied with the state requirements for smog on this swap.
Despite the fancy wheels this was never intended to be a custom. It is a working truck. The homemade console serves as a cup holder and a gauge holder.
He says he needed a truck and he did what resourceful people have done since the start. He took something he had and modified it using other stuff that he had laying around. I suspect there was more planning than that but that's his story.
That was the definition of Hot Rod before trailer queens and crate motors took over. This is the type of trailer queen that pulls the trailer.
He says he needed a truck and he did what resourceful people have done since the start. He took something he had and modified it using other stuff that he had laying around. I suspect there was more planning than that but that's his story.
That was the definition of Hot Rod before trailer queens and crate motors took over. This is the type of trailer queen that pulls the trailer.
What he had was made by Ford. This is a Ford 302. Essentially that is the last variety of Ford small block made with a carb. It is a version of something I think I first saw as a 260. It has been in several sizes that include, at least, 221, 260, 289, and 302. They also had 340s in kit or crate motor form with special pistons and cranks. It was the heart of Carroll Shelby's initial cobra as a 289 or 260.
In 1986 when they introduced Electronic Fuel Injection, it became a 5.0. Whatever it had been, Andrew had one in the 302 variation with a C6 (think Ford truck) automatic transmission and he combined it with this non-running truck. The largest stock engine in this truck would have been a 2.8 V6 and this is almost twice that large. I believe the 2.8 was made by hacking two cylinders off the chevy 305.
In 1986 when they introduced Electronic Fuel Injection, it became a 5.0. Whatever it had been, Andrew had one in the 302 variation with a C6 (think Ford truck) automatic transmission and he combined it with this non-running truck. The largest stock engine in this truck would have been a 2.8 V6 and this is almost twice that large. I believe the 2.8 was made by hacking two cylinders off the chevy 305.
This thing that looks like an upholstered tool box contains a 10 gallon spare gas tank with electric fuel pump. He would possibly not have needed that if he had an overdrive transmission. He didn’t. Maybe next year. I don't think it's finished.
This thing is strong and runs well. It has pulled a car on a trailer to a neighboring town. I don’t think I would have wanted to do that with my stock V6 S-10.
I know a lot of people who don't like Hot Rods and I agree that they really are sort of useless. I don't know how you could feel that way about this. He has driven it over 60.000 miles since he built it.
I know a lot of people who don't like Hot Rods and I agree that they really are sort of useless. I don't know how you could feel that way about this. He has driven it over 60.000 miles since he built it.
The unique thing in my opinion though was swimming upstream with this swap. You can put a Chevy engine into anything but putting a Ford in a Chevy just hardly ever gets done. Making it smog compliant for the vintage was even better. The best thing though is that it looks like it rolled out of the factory that way. I always wonder what he will do next.
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