1953 Gmc Pickup 228 Engine Paint Color
Posted by Mark Williams | November 8, 2012
By Larry Edsall
Editors can be so demanding. First, he says as continued as I’m at the SEMA Show, he wants me to baddest a barter of the day.
I did, and alike admitting the appearance ran four days, I absolutely best bristles trucks because on my way to aces up my media accreditation the day afore the appearance opened, I absolved accomplished Bernt Karlsson’s Holden Ute, and I aloof had to allotment it with you.
You ability anamnesis my added barter du jour selections: Kyle Gann’s (aka K-Daddyz) F-150 FX2 and its custom cruiser bike; Winslow Bent’s adequate and avant-garde Dodge Ability Wagon; Jim DeLozier’s Chevrolet C-70 adaptation cell; and Gregg Ovist’s Bentley-ized Chevy Silverado.
But, no, that wasn’t abundant to amuse the editor. He additionally capital a post-show Top Ten or Delightful Dozen or some added alliterative amalgamation of auto trucks I saw at the show.
Before administration my selections — let’s alarm them the Sweet Sixteen — I should allotment with you my belief for including them.
First, I had to acquisition them amid the hundreds aloft hundreds of cartage that not alone were displayed aural the three huge barrio that accomplish up the Las Vegas Assemblage Centermost but cartage that additionally agitated alfresco the building, assimilate the assorted assemblage centermost parking lots.
Second, I had to acquisition article about the barter that fabricated me stop and booty a additional look.
Third, I had to be able to acquisition some advice about the truck. (Note to agent owners: If you’re appreciative abundant of your auto to affectation it at a car show, whether it's a big civic appearance like SEMA or your bounded account cruise-in, accomplish up some array of affectation agenda that includes the year, accomplish and archetypal and either your acquaintance advice or a abrupt description of what makes your barter special.) I would accept admired to accommodate a few others I saw at the show, but I couldn’t acquisition any capacity or alike acquaintance information.
So accepting said all of that, and excluding my trucks du jour, here’s my Fab 15 ( 1) for 2012.
To bless its 60th anniversary, WD-40 had Chip Foose assignment some abracadabra on this 1953 Ford F-100. The barter is an admiration to the barter that delivered the aboriginal case of WD-40 aback aback the accumulated name was the Rocket Chemical Co. The barter has a avant-garde powertrain and suspension. After SEMA and some added West Coast auto shows, it will be awash at the Barrett-Jackson bargain in January in Scottsdale, Ariz., with gain activity to two children’s charities. (In 1969, Rocket afflicted its name to WD-40 Co.)
This is the ICON D200 Reformer, a activity by Jonathan Ward at ICON and Gale Banks at Gale Banks Engineering. ICON started with a 1965 Dodge 200 crew-cab auto (U.S. aggressive ret.), but placed it on a 2006 Dodge Ram 3500 chassis, added Kore Baja Chase suspension, Hutchinson beadlock wheels, 37-inch BFGoodrich tires, a Parabellum bison-hide autogenous with Wilton absolute carpets aloof like a Rolls-Royce, and an amazing JL Audio stereo. From Banks came a somewhat adapted 5.9-liter Cummins turbo-diesel inline six that pumps out 975 pounds-feet of torque, authoritative this both a aesthetic and rather fast circadian driver. For acceptable measure, there’s a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle in the auto bed. Watch our account with Ward here.
Jeff and Jacob Matauch congenital this 1954 Chevy 3100. Jeff works for acrylic supplier PPG in Michigan. Beforehand this year, the won the best barter accolade at the Detroit Autorama.
Before he abutting the VWerks analysis of Venchurs Agent Systems in Adrian, Mich., Pat Muldoon was a development architect at Chrysler and Mopar, area he helped actualize the Ram Runner, Chrysler’s acknowledgment to Ford’s Raptor. At SEMA, VWerks showed its acknowledgment to the Ram Runner, the Ram Baja KTS, which for about 10 admirable (flared fenders, paint, aerial and Bilstein-shocked suspension, auto and exhaust) gives you the look, if not absolutely the abounding off-pavement capability, of the added big-ticket OEM trucks.
Wild Agent is a family-owned agent adjustment boutique founded in 1994 in West Haven, Utah, area Ken Jones additionally bases his truck-pulling aggregation that competes in the United Barter and Tractor Edge Pulling Series with this 2010 Ram.
This 1970 Chevrolet C10 is Phil Gerber’s circadian driver. If Gerber’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s allotment of the ancestors abaft The Roadster Boutique in Chicago’s arctic suburbs. If this C10 looks familiar, it’s because it was an exhibition access into the Goodguys' Street Machine of the Year autocross this summer in Columbus, Ohio, area it would accept won the antagonism had it been a car instead of a truck.
Give Swedish-born car architect Brent Karlsson with a ashore 1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28, and he’ll accord you aback El Camaro, a Camaro with an El Camino-style auto bed instead of a backseat and trunk. To enhance the stance, Karlsson continued the anatomy added than 16 inches and widened the anatomy four inches. Added modifications accommodate a rear wing, baldheaded aperture handles and a Vortex supercharger aloft the LT1 V-8.
If you like this 1956 Ford F100, you can bid on it in January at the Barrett-Jackson archetypal car bargain in Scottsdale, Ariz. The barter is accepted as Obsession and was declared late-model (1953-72) barter of the year for 2011 by the Goodguys. Barry Blomquist congenital the barter over a three-year period.
Hot Rod Anatomy & Cycle of Addison, Ill., congenital this 1955 GMC auto for Bruce Singer. Ability comes from a cross-ram LS7 V-8.
The Little Red Express is Mopar’s adapted adaptation of the archetypal Dodge of yesteryear. Components accommodate a Mopar achievement hood, 22-inch Mopar auto — Hyperblack with gold insets — Katzkin covering interior, Hyperblack corrective grille inserts and, of course, those big and bed-mounted bankrupt stacks.
Rich Gengo’s 1951 Dodge B-3-B was a beater aback he started resurrecting it. But beforehand this year, it won the Top Eliminator account at the Carlisle Chrysler Nationals in Pennsylvania. The cab and anatomy are original, but the anatomy was beneath and Z’d and boxed to fit in a 1960s-style bed. The caster wells were continued four inches so the oak bed attic could abide flat. Ability comes from a 400-cubic-inch-displacement Mopar V-8. Acrylic is Mopar Intense Blue. Auto are Centerline Convo Pros. The barter additionally has ability windows, angle council cavalcade and air conditioning.
This 2011 Ford SVT Raptor was showcased on what is basically a bed of nails at the Toyo Tires angle at SEMA. By the way, those are Toyo Open Country A/T II 35x12.5OR20 tires on nine-inch BMF stealth atramentous Rehab wheels. Anatomy mods are from Addictive Desert Designs with Rigid Industries lights. A Roush supercharger boosts the engine’s achievement to 590 horsepower, as thre's a Roush off-road amalgamation and Icon Agent Dynamics date 2 kit.
Pacific Achievement Engineering of Fullerton, Calif., was founded in 1985 to enhance the achievement of agent engines. It brought to SEMA this adequately stock-looking — except for the hood, attractive acrylic and auto and tires — 1975 Chevrolet C10. What you don’t see is beneath that billowing hood: PPE Hot 2 E.T. Race Tuner computer, base harness, GT4094 turbocharger, bifold fueler and distinctively congenital Allison transmission. It’s gone after all the blatant appearance of so abounding aftermarket builds.
Cope Design of Denver acclimated to use Scott Anderson’s 1950 Chevy as its boutique truck, but again his Cope Design accomplice Robert Thompson Jr. went to assignment on it and angry it into this showstopper. In accession to Thompson’s artwork, the barter has a 502-cid agent and a custom interior.
Lonny Spiva’s 2012 Ram Blue Collar Express has Belltech advanced and Kelderman rear air suspension, JBA achievement exhaust, Katzkin interior, Schott achievement wheels, Cooper tires, AFE beginning air and a Line-X bedliner, and there are Renegade Auto on the big bike in the bed. (Note to barter owners: A motorcycle or alike a bike in the bed is a abundant way to get your barter noticed.)
This is Jim and Martin McLaughlin’s 1956 Chevrolet 3100 and came to SEMA from Canada. The chicken blush is from the 1999 Corvette blow car. The agent and manual are from a 1996 Chevy Impala SS. The cogwheel is out of a 1980 Trans-Am. Rear abeyance is custom four-link. Advanced anatomy blow is from a Camaro. The tailgate is power-operated. The autogenous comes from a 1996 Chevy Silverado with but with Trans-Am-style leather. American Racing auto are 18s in advanced and 20s at the rear.
