Photo: Barrett-Jackson
Ah, the pickup trucks of the 1950s... Born into this world with a specific destiny in mind, they lived their lives in the shadows back in the day, hauling people and cargo and generally being treated like unworthy possessions. But boy, did their destiny take an unexpected turn in modern days…
Pickup trucks are the favorite type of vehicle for the American buyers, and that does not stop only at the new ones now rolling off factory lines. There's also a huge market for modified pickup trucks of old, especially the ones of the 1950s that should have long left the scene.
Custom garages know there is such a market, so they constantly roll out incredible machines based on the pickups from that era. And if you were on the lookout for a brand new one, a truck that hasn't been available on the open market until now, you're in luck.
The 1954 Chevrolet truck of the Advance-Design line we have here is exactly that. It's brand new in the sense it was completed in May 2023, after four years of hard work conducted in the shops of Oregon-based MetalWorks Classic Auto Restoration.
Presently part of a private collection, the Chevy will go under the hammer in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the hand of auction house Barret-Jackson. It'll sell with no reserve, but a quick look at it will tell you it's going to be the subject of quite the fight.
The truck is much less its former self than you'd expect. The body, still wearing the original lines of its breed, rests on an Art Morrison chassis and features some of the most potent pieces of suspension hardware available on the market: Strange coilover shocks, Pro drop spindles and a sway bar at the front, and 4-bar suspension with Strange coilovers and a sway bar at the rear.
The chassis and body are propped on 18-inch wheels of the Boze Shifter variety, shod in Nitto tires and backed by Wilwood disc brakes on all four corners.
The wheels spin courtesy of an insanely powerful engine fitted under the hood. The powerplant displaces 6.0 liters, it's of the LS2 variety, and was tweaked by a crew called Ross Automotive Machine into developing an amount of power probably no one back in the 1950s thought a truck would be capable of: 630 horsepower.
The engine's power is controlled by means of an automatic transmission and sent to a Strange 9-inch positraction rear end.
As with most other pickups out there, the interior is only large enough to accommodate two people, but it does so in style. Black and gray leather can be seen throughout, most visibly on the bucket seats. The dashboard holds Dakota Digital gauges, and there's even a Bluetooth-capable Alpine multimedia audio system in there.
The New Orleans auction takes place at the end of September, so there's still a bit of waiting to be done until we learn how much attention and money this incredible truck, nicknamed in this form Shadow, is going to go for.
Custom garages know there is such a market, so they constantly roll out incredible machines based on the pickups from that era. And if you were on the lookout for a brand new one, a truck that hasn't been available on the open market until now, you're in luck.
The 1954 Chevrolet truck of the Advance-Design line we have here is exactly that. It's brand new in the sense it was completed in May 2023, after four years of hard work conducted in the shops of Oregon-based MetalWorks Classic Auto Restoration.
Presently part of a private collection, the Chevy will go under the hammer in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the hand of auction house Barret-Jackson. It'll sell with no reserve, but a quick look at it will tell you it's going to be the subject of quite the fight.
The truck is much less its former self than you'd expect. The body, still wearing the original lines of its breed, rests on an Art Morrison chassis and features some of the most potent pieces of suspension hardware available on the market: Strange coilover shocks, Pro drop spindles and a sway bar at the front, and 4-bar suspension with Strange coilovers and a sway bar at the rear.
The chassis and body are propped on 18-inch wheels of the Boze Shifter variety, shod in Nitto tires and backed by Wilwood disc brakes on all four corners.
The wheels spin courtesy of an insanely powerful engine fitted under the hood. The powerplant displaces 6.0 liters, it's of the LS2 variety, and was tweaked by a crew called Ross Automotive Machine into developing an amount of power probably no one back in the 1950s thought a truck would be capable of: 630 horsepower.
The engine's power is controlled by means of an automatic transmission and sent to a Strange 9-inch positraction rear end.
As with most other pickups out there, the interior is only large enough to accommodate two people, but it does so in style. Black and gray leather can be seen throughout, most visibly on the bucket seats. The dashboard holds Dakota Digital gauges, and there's even a Bluetooth-capable Alpine multimedia audio system in there.
The New Orleans auction takes place at the end of September, so there's still a bit of waiting to be done until we learn how much attention and money this incredible truck, nicknamed in this form Shadow, is going to go for.
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