RUSH55
SILVER Star
This is a little different - probably should be in the “chat” section, but I kinda prefer chatting with guys here.
So everyone here more than likely has a history with 4wd vehicles going way back. There’s a few guys here who were lucky to have parents that owned 55’s and they rode around in them as kids - even maybe OWN the one their parents owned back in the day.
I wasn’t quite that lucky, but was lucky to have been around some pretty sweet 4x’s from some other makes pretty much since I was born.
Found several photos going through some boxes which gave in to the idea of doing a thread based on this. Lots of stories behind these rigs, I’ll touch on a couple.
The first 4wd of my childhood was my Dad’s 1956 GMC with the NAPCO conversion. Best pictures I can find also have me on the back of a horse, and riding a bike (late 70’s, early 80’s).
At some point in the early 80’s, my Dad traded the 56 for a 1947 Willy’s Jeep, which my Dad recalls as being one of his biggest vehicle mistakes, as the GMC was solid, and the Willy’s was a piece of sh*t. From my recollection, I think the guy he traded with was a friend of some sort of my Mom’s father, and so there may have been some leverage there, for what reason, I do not know. The Willy’s had some chunks of 2x4 lumber between the body mounts to act as a body lift, someone had cobbled up some booger-weld mounts and tossed a 327 Chevrolet engine in it, and a plethora of unknown mods that I’m sure we would all cringe at. I mean, just look at that hideous front bumper. IIRC, the cross bars above the pipes were solid-stock.
Me holding my cousin in the foreground.
So everyone here more than likely has a history with 4wd vehicles going way back. There’s a few guys here who were lucky to have parents that owned 55’s and they rode around in them as kids - even maybe OWN the one their parents owned back in the day.
I wasn’t quite that lucky, but was lucky to have been around some pretty sweet 4x’s from some other makes pretty much since I was born.
Found several photos going through some boxes which gave in to the idea of doing a thread based on this. Lots of stories behind these rigs, I’ll touch on a couple.
The first 4wd of my childhood was my Dad’s 1956 GMC with the NAPCO conversion. Best pictures I can find also have me on the back of a horse, and riding a bike (late 70’s, early 80’s).
At some point in the early 80’s, my Dad traded the 56 for a 1947 Willy’s Jeep, which my Dad recalls as being one of his biggest vehicle mistakes, as the GMC was solid, and the Willy’s was a piece of sh*t. From my recollection, I think the guy he traded with was a friend of some sort of my Mom’s father, and so there may have been some leverage there, for what reason, I do not know. The Willy’s had some chunks of 2x4 lumber between the body mounts to act as a body lift, someone had cobbled up some booger-weld mounts and tossed a 327 Chevrolet engine in it, and a plethora of unknown mods that I’m sure we would all cringe at. I mean, just look at that hideous front bumper. IIRC, the cross bars above the pipes were solid-stock.
Me holding my cousin in the foreground.
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