hen I was a youngin’, my dad wasn’t much of a hobbyist when it came to automobiles. He did mess around with a few baja Bugs, but those were mostly just a quick flip despite my pleas for him to keep them! What exposure I did gain through the old man was through all the various forms of racing he took me to, most of which was the Saturday night dirt track/demolition derby action at Corona Raceway, which was literally right up the street from our house. So, how it came to be that instead of listening to my second grade teacher’s daily lessons I was scribbling flamed ’56 F-100 pickups (mostly panels) when no family member or friend of my father’s ever had one to begin with, is beyond me. But … it stuck.

By junior high, I was dreaming of custom Volkswagens, which I didn’t share much with my dad, but ironically, as I was just beginning my freshman year in high school, he bought me a ’69 Type III Fastback to “tinker on” until I got my license the following year. (I don’t believe he or my mom were ever the wiser, but you can bet that I’d become well-accustomed to driving that VW long before I was legally licensed to do so!) Along with random copies of Hot VWs and VW Trends, and some words of wisdom from friends at school, I did tinker with the Fastback as I drove it daily to school before I literally burned the trans up (it was an automatic), at which point my dad once again stepped up to the plate without me asking and bought me a ’66 Kombi bus! So, while he wasn’t directly influencing me as a hobbyist, he did greatly contribute to me becoming a “car guy,” that’s for sure.

hen I first acquired my 1948 Chevy three-window some years ago, I was kind of attached to the stock, painted grille … emphasis on “kind of.” But, once I swapped out the gray steelies and installed the chrome Cragar Star Wires, albeit a bit crusty, the blandness of the OE grille stood out, especially with the rechromed bumpers.

It was about that time of my aesthetic quandary that Golden Star Classic Auto Parts came out with their all-new deluxe stainless grille for the 1947-53 Advance Design pickups. It was also at that same time my truck just happened to be at Old Anvil Speed Shop, so I figured that was an opportune moment to swap them out … but it wasn’t going to be a simple straightforward job, as my initial test-fitting at home proved.

I’d been having difficulties with hood alignment—more so, getting the hood latch to open when it was fully closed—and had assumed it was simply an adjustment issue. Not so. Turns out, when the ’48 began its second life as a custom, it was put upon a heavily modified chassis, which included a whole-new front frame clip with what I’d call a “hot rod”-style front crossmember (picture an aftermarket Model T frame with a tube crossmember and a single mount for the core support).

alk about your bagged and body dropped classic Chevy. Evan Greenberg of Oceanside, New York, is the owner of this bone-chilling, Bowtie-bred, bagged-and-slammed stunner. He’s also proud to say that owning this particular model truck is a long-awaited dream that has finally come to fruition for him, being a lifelong truck enthusiast of the highest level. “I’ve always loved the Squarebody Chevys, especially with the Stepside bed. The design reminds me of a classic farm truck, made to do the hard work out in the fields or on the homestead,” Evan states.

So, when the time was right, or at least good enough in his book, Evan searched out a Squarebody to call his own. “I purchased this truck in May 2015 before the C10 hype really got out of hand. I found out after learning the history of this 1986 C10 that it was used at a sawmill factory in Connecticut. That’s where one of the previous owners purchased it. I was told at one time the truck had been buried in the ground at the mill,” Evan states.