Just finished replacing the floor in m 39 Poncho coupe. All hand fab my yours truly. 66 Chevy II’s are gorgeous cars, no doubt.
My daily driver is my 55 Chevy post. Been driving her 40 yrs come April. She’s been a good girl. 
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Nice work on that. I just did my 68 Chevy K-10. I was going to custom fab it but I can not do the work like you did. So I just ordered it for 600 bucks shipped its not worth my time anyways. Found a full pan for the Nova a bit more expensive but it will come out better If I attempt making it.
The lower body line down is all new metal everywhere. Most would have scrapped that truck. I saved it.
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Awesome. K10, as I. 4WD ? The 67-72s were the best looking truck Chevy ever built. Especially the 67-68s.
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Yes its actually a K-20 it has 3/4 ton axles. It is a long box and Im chopping it down to a short box. I bought a brand new LMC box for it. Its getting a 5.3 4l60 swap with an adapted 208 transfercase.
Yeah Its left me scratching my head with its simplistic designs. Why new cars have to be so complex is beyond me. They dont have to be they need to go back. Oh well I predict the big 3 will be done with in the next decade.
The 55 is another dream car that year is my fav of the 50’s era. I would love a Nomad. GM really should consider recreating a modern version of 54 concept. They should have built that!
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This here is the actual 54 concept of the Nomad. It was originally designed around the 53 vette for the 55 model year. Something like 6 of them were made and there is one or two that survived the crusher. The rest were destroyed. One is out west stored in a wharehouse out in the desert somewhere I cant remember where. The other one I believe maybe lost and location is unkown.
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knock the fins off the backend, and jack it up about 6" and you have a fairly modern looking SUV. 
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Yup thats what Im sayin. Make the back top removable and you have convertiable Ute / Elcomino
Yeah that car was way ahead of its time. If I could create a car company that is the what I would use as the foundation right there.
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It reminds me a bit of a mini cooper with the silhouette and big headlights. I like the forward slash front pillars, and I don’t think they can get away with the stylized front end like that anymore because of fuel economy, and the safety crumple zone stuff.
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I’ve seen this car, the Gilmore Auto Museum had it as part of a Corvette display. The wagon a Nomad while the coupe was named Corvair. Both of which I thought looked better than the production car.
C1s are certainly nicer than anything that has ever sat in my driveway, but I’ve always found the lines of the '53 Studebaker Starlight to be far more appealing than a first generation Corvette.
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Im putting that in my bucket list. The info I found was a youtube video and I dont how old it was. So that car could have changed hands by now and Im not sure how accurate the source was on the history either or my memory anymore.
But I would love to see one in person.
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I like the teardrops in the second gen. but I am darn tempted to put a 54 nomad in my driveway.
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Simpler times. It seems somehow all these cars got shipped to Sweden.
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I thought they all ended up in Cuba.
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Not according to all the car show videos the Swedish guys have posted.
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The cars shipped to Sweden and the Choppers sent to Japan.
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If you look at their videos, you quickly realize they only have stainless steel available as well. After a few fender benders, all their cars start resembling deloreans with Flux Gasifiers blasting ABBA (or the younger generation blares heavy metal which easily drowns out ABBA) or that is as near as I can tell from the posted videos. 
( this is a joke. )
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Here’s another good cowboy song
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Thanks, Tom!
And then this one, the album’s named after…
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You probably don’t want to know this Mike but it has always cracked me up.
Fans of Beat Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after a “revolutionary” steam-powered dildo mentioned in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.
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