This whole company started off a passion to upgrade my wife's 1954 GMC truck.  Originally I had a 1948 Chevrolet/Barnette Ambulance.  Not the easiest thing to 

drive and not good as an only vehicle for a newly married couple.  We argued for months about buying a new truck and finally settled on buying an old truck that had most of the work done already.  We soon found "her" truck in a terrible grey-purple primer on a miserable drizzly day.  She even talked the truck owner into trading MY ambulance to get HER truck!!!!!!!  Oh well as the saying goes, "If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."

After ten years and over 80,000 miles of daily driving, towing, parades and brutal house projects it was finally time to upgrade.  This is how the S10 frame swap came to be.  I had searched for ways to upgrade the suspension and powertrain in the truck.  Originally the truck had a Mustang II crossmember and mid-size GM 10-bolt Posion Rancho rear springs.  This was a horrible combination that only got worse when I replaced all the bushings and shocks.  The old frame had cracked over half a dozen times.  I saw a 1950 GMC Panel on a full-size 1996 frame but it set too wide.  I searched for something that would fit better.  Finally, I came across the long bed standard cab S10.  After some serious research I got together with a couple guys 
and we started engineering the kit.  Within a few months we had a spare truck and an S10 frame.  With only Sundays to work it took quite a while but we got the first kit done.  A year later we were in production and selling a few kits a month. Fast forward to 2015 and we are pre-selling out on kits before production runs are done.

As a tribute to my wife and her truck (which is only now getting converted!) I will document the progress of what was supposed to be the rodstoration of her truck 
but ended up being the start of a business!

 

In August 2005 the slow return to glory of the yellow truck began with the disassembly. There are some serious issues with the cab.  Wife says I'm not allowed to replace the cab since I'm already replacing the frame, engine, transmission and rear axle.  Something about the "soul" of the truck being lost!  The only part of the cab not being replaced is the roof and dashboard!! But I know if I lie and replace the cab she'll figure it out and tie me to the trailer hitch before a road trip.