Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 4, Issue 33 - May 2023 i Classic Truck Performance

Project #backpay, a ’66 Chevy C10 that was once a humble circle track service vehicle, is the latest truck to go under construction from the guys at Auto Metal Direct (AMD). With a full rebuild in the works, this truck has a rich history and some questionable repairs that we will attempt to address, but more in future issues of CTP. The plan is to keep this a running/driving project as long as possible before any major transformation takes place. In the meantime, we need to address the steering on the truck. We want the truck to have a nice street truck feel to complement the new 20-inch Ambassadors from Detroit Steel Wheel. So, we turned to our friends at Classic Performance Products (CPP) to keep us between the lines…

It’s very rare for someone to have the opportunity to take ownership of his or her personal grail truck right away—but Cameron Smith got close. “I’m all about trucks,” he says. “The ’67-72 Chevy C10s are my favorite models, but the ’67 small window is by far the ultimate of them all for me.” While the opportunity to purchase a ’67 eluded him for quite some time, he did get to spend some time with a ’70 Chevy pickup before getting the truck you see on these pages. “I really started the search for my ’67 back in 2012,” Cameron says. “I found it about four hours away in the Kansas City area. When I bought the truck, it had already been restored but probably not touched since sometime in…

1. OBS TOTALLY TUBULAR CONTROL ARMS One of the biggest trends we’re seeing is the resurgence of the ’88-98 Chevy OBS trucks. While there are a handful of suspension and brake parts already on the market, most were designed when these trucks were new. A lot changed in the last 20 to 30 years and Classic Performance Products (CPP) thinks there is plenty of room for improvement, which is why they are developing entirely new products for the OBS trucks with the goal of integrating modern technology and design to accommodates today’s contemporary build styles. One of the first products they designed and built are tubular control arms. To give more wheel to fender clearance, CPP’s Tubular arms are 1.5 inches narrower per side than factory, opening up many more…

“I’ve been into Mopars for as long as I can remember,” Jeremy Shultz, owner of this stunning Chevy 3100, says. You might figure that’s a weird way to start off a feature on a farm-bred, badass Bowtie but there is a deeper connection to this truck and the owner that only good family values could forge. “Growing up I was surrounded by Pentastar muscle. My brother, Josh, had a 360ci motivated Scamp when I was just a young, impressionable kid. My parents’ neighbor, Mike, was a Mopar guy as well. He had a big-block, open-headered ’72 Duster that we would blast up and down the street with whenever we got the chance. They both played a big part in my love of Mopar muscle cars,” Jeremy states. As he got…

Trucks, trucks, and more trucks! It seems customized pickups are everywhere nowadays—from early '70s Broncos selling at Barrett-Jackson for $375,000 to a hundred vintage and historic pickups showcased in their own building a few months ago at the Grand National Roadster Show. What’s more, it seems there’s no end in sight with this current popular trend. Mainstream C10s and F-100s certainly take up most of the pie chart but even the weirdo makes and models (we’re lookin’ at you International Harvester and D100 owners) are just as popular a base to build a custom ride. With many shops and manufacturers specifically catering to the truck crowd, this group is being well fed with new products and aftermarket parts all the time. So it should be no wonder the Detroit Autorama,…

As anyone who knows me knows, I’m quite the purveyor of the social medias … primarily the IGs. As such, I’ve been able to better immerse myself into all facets of our hobby—as well as crazy politics, human bloopers, and so forth—from the vast amounts of events across the country to the new products just hitting the market to the trucks and their builders/owners. Such was the case with Terry Rose. I’ve watched Terry’s (or “t.rose” as his IG handle refers) Square Jimmy come together since he first revealed the Rendered Rides digitally illustrated project back in January 2021 (hell, I’m even using his IG for fact checking as I write this!). No newcomer to the classic truck hobby, Terry enlisted an A-list group of not only people but components…

There are two things that can—and will—severely stonewall the progress of a truck project, regardless of the level of the build: body/paint and interior. (They don’t call it “paint/upholstery jail” for nothing!) Unfortunately, unless you’re the proprietor of a paint and body shop, which more often than not causes even more delay, there’s really no way around the lengthy time frame of that portion of the overall build process. The interior, on the other hand, is definitely something you can take full control over with one simple phone call or a few clicks of the mouse. (Note to upholsterers reading this: we know you’re not all like that!) TMI Products, located a stone’s throw from where I grew up in SoCal’s Inland Empire, has become a leader in aftermarket interior…

When Trevor Williams of Gasboy Customs in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, bought this old ’62 Chevy truck, he was actually looking forward to the long, grueling nights repairing its many issues. It took him three years to overcome decades of damage that plagued damn near the entirety of it. So why did Trevor take on this project to begin with? First off, the truck belonged to a good friend who was looking to offload it cheap. Secondly, he isn’t afraid of a challenge—obviously. Last, and more importantly, Trevor was surfing a recent surge of C10 inspiration that was just too overwhelming to fight off. Sometimes you just have to take what you can get and see how far you can go with it. “The truck last belonged to my motocross…

https://youtu.be/B7DDenIWNKc Trucks have been stopping proficiently with rear drum brakes for decades. Perhaps not the most effective form of braking available these days, but for many classics out just cruising the road, a pair of discs up front combined with a well-maintained set of drums in the rear will perform safely and just fine. Don’t get us wrong, when it comes to quickly bringing our trucks to a slow or stop, you can’t go wrong with disc brakes on all four corners. The clamping action of calipers and rotors are far more effective and consistent, while having fewer moving parts. If we were working on a great-handling, big-powered truck, four-wheel discs would be our only choice. However, for this family hauler ’71 Suburban with a high-mile 5.3L LS, the factory…