1974 C10 Stepside

[ratdawger]

Sweet truck, grill looks good blacked-out, and I also like the taillights.

[crazyfrazee]

nice truck dude......is that ur chevelle in the background

[406 Q-ship]

nice truck dude......is that ur chevelle in the background

Yeap that is my 68 Malibu.......which strangely has not had it's grill blacked out yet......hmmmmmm a weekend project.  There is a 71 Monte Carlo (yes the grill is blacked out) in the garage in front of the Chevelle.

[406 Q-ship]

nice truck always liked the look of the stepsides. do u have any interior pics?

If I did take interior pics it would require me cleaning out the truck........and even I have limits to what I will subject people to seeing.  I will get some pics when the doors are hung and the new door panels are in place.  I hear that the body shop painted the doors.....woo hoo.

Sweet truck, grill looks good blacked-out, and I also like the taillights.

Those are the reproduction of the 1955 - 1959 stepside taillights, I hated the huge ones it had when I bought the truck.  The only thing I had to do was paint the inside of the taillight housing white to get them bright enough.

[Flamingbig10]

nice step

[78 Chevyrado]

Nice!  I really like the blacked out grille with the silver surround.

[406 Q-ship]

Here is the fenders and the doors going together to be installed........the saga continues.







Here I am wiring up the power windows and door locks, it quite a project on the earlier truck where the option wasn't available.

[eventhorizon66]

What size wheels/tires are you running?  255/50-17 on 17x8 maybe?  I'm not usually a fan of anything smaller than 28" or 29" on these trucks, but your step is kinda changing my mind.

[406 Q-ship]

What size wheels/tires are you running?  255/50-17 on 17x8 maybe?  I'm not usually a fan of anything smaller than 28" or 29" on these trucks, but it your step is kinda changing my mind.

Thats what I'm running, I would love to find something just a taste taller but the next jump in 17" is to 275/60-17 and at 31" they rub just a bit.  I would like some tires that are like a 265 or 275/ 45 or 50 to get a 27" to 28" tall.

[eventhorizon66]

There are 275/55-17's which are 29".  These are fairly common sport truck tires, since they became OEM on the Mercedes M-Class AMG.  If those rub in the front, you could run a raked and staggered setup with 235/55-17 or your current 255/50-17 (both 27").  Or, if you want the same diameter F/R, you could run 235/65-17 or 255/60-17 (both 29").

The good thing about the tire you have now is the weight.  Go larger and the weight will go up noticeably, and the lower the unsprung weight the better, for both ride quality and handling.  I'd say if you like the way it looks and you don't need more load capacity, keep them.  The only problem is that size is very slowly phasing out as the '94-'96 Impala SS becomes less relevant to tire manufacturers.

[406 Q-ship]

Wouldn't you know it I picked every series of 275 and 17" rim EXCEPT 55............

I like the idea of have the same sized tires in all 4 corners for the posi in the even of a flat I can put a front in the back if need be. 

Thanks for the unspung weight info, I work as a suspension engineer and already know it but there maybe someone who will read that and learn an important lesson.  I had 275/60-17 on the truck with those rims for a few years (man on dip in the street those 31" monsters RUBBED!) I just wish there was a 275 or 285/50 that would put me in that sweet 27.5 to 28" range.

[eventhorizon66]

I work as a suspension engineer.

LOL.  So I guess I really took you to school.

Here's another size I found 255/55-17.

[406 Q-ship]

I just drove this thing about 200 miles to Del Mar today and it got 16 MPG with speeds mostly at 75 but down to as slow as 25.  This thing is carburated not fuel injected, I love that 700.