W21046 1955 Chevrolet 3100 Restomod

If you're looking for a completely over the top custom build then this '55 Chevy truck is for you. We could try and describe it for you, but the builder, Darrell Cimbanin, co-owner of Cimtex Rods in Texas, kindly wrote this for Hot Rod magazine: My brother Tim and I didn't set out to build a show truck. When we started looking for a truck to build it was going to be our "driver" shop truck to pull our pro-street '55 Chevy sedan. The plan was to build a plain, nothing-fancy truck and paint it black lacquer. We found a '55 longbed that was an original Texas truck at a swap meet in Belton, Texas. It was an ugly green and every panel was damaged but the cab was rust-free. We paid $900 and dragged it home. We stripped the truck, dipped the body and trashed the six-banger and stock suspension. We shortened the frame, bought a new short bed, and installed a Camaro front clip in front and inboard leaf springs and a 9-inch Ford axle in back. After putting the body and bed back on the frame, we didn't like the way the truck sat, so we reworked the suspension to get "the look. '" After much trial and error, the Fatman shortened control arms, spindles, and Air Ride airbags put the frontend where we wanted it. The back of the truck wasn't low enough so we clipped the rear frame and started over, building it out of 2x3 tubing to give us room for the pro-street tires, coilover shocks and four-link suspension. The new bed had to be cut for the 8-inch handmade wheel tubs and to make room for the reworked frame. For the engine we started with a '91 350 TPI motor coupled to a 700R4 transmission, building the truck around that platform. After we started modifying the body, particularly when I dropped the top, the truck started taking shape, and we realized this was no longer going to be a tow vehicle...or shop truck. We decided to build a true hot rod truck that would showcase our hot rod building business (Cimtex Rods, Jarrell, Texas). It was going to need more motor, tranny, gears, a cool interior--and a hot paint job. The truck was going to have all the latest electronic features including a radical fuel injected motor, comfort control air conditioning, remote power windows and doors, CD, digital dash, LEDs...the works. While we continued making modifications to the body and bed, we started gathering information and parts to modify the engine we had, which wasn't going to be easy. Finally, to get the radical fuel injected engine we wanted, and to ensure the driveability we wanted, we turned to TPIS in Minnesota. Coming from a drag racing background and always building my own motors, I was a little skeptical of having one built. But they came through with a 520hp, 396ci stroker small-block. For the transmission, we chose the Art Carr 700R4 with a 3,200 stall converter to hold those horses. After we wedge-cut and dropped the top, windows were the next challenge. We couldn't find anyone to cut the windshield, so we had to do it ourselves. I had never cut glass before, and after three broken windshields, Tim was getting worried because we had a top with no glass. I finally figured out how to cut it on the fourth try. Auto City Classic Glass in Minnesota wanted to know what we were doing with all those windshields, and we said, "breaking them." I had cut the laminated side glass, but it started separating. The Auto City folks custom cut and tempered the glass to our specs. For the rear window, Tim found an original '55 truck, second owner, sitting in a cotton gin in Granger, Texas. It had a perfect back window, so he bought the truck, exchanged the back glass and we now use that '55 as a shop truck. To finish the driveline, we used Inland Services polished aluminum driveshaft coupled to a Currie polished aluminum third member with a 4.56:1 posi. To get the chassis as nice as the rest of the truck, everything had to be painted or polished; every nut and bolt was polished or turned in the lathe. Now we began to reconsider the color, black just wasn't going to do it. We had the look and we had the noise, now we needed the color. House of Colors Candy Pearl Orange was the hook we were looking for. ... More info at the link below This car's listing: https://www.marshallgoldmanoh.com/use... Follow us! http://bit.ly/MGMSLFacebook http://bit.ly/MGMSLTwitter http://bit.ly/MGMSLInstagram Subscribe to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/MarshallGoldmanMotors View the rest of our inventory: http://bit.ly/MarshallGoldmanInventory