The whole truck will ultimatly be lower an inch or so when the tires and wheels are finally choosen. Rear fenders getting lined up. Nice and high and level with front. Bill Dahleen loaned us a sheetmetal brake. It will be huge in finishing the bed sides. Gotta love Dahleen. Fitting so we can line the back wheel wells with the front wells. The factory alignment was not acceptable. Rear was too low. Fitting the cab again. Doing this to get alignments for the back wheel wells. 55-59 Chevy / GMC panel truck. Thinking of integrating these as the tail lights. Photshopped image of a very short rocket rail. Time to start shopping tailgate kits....and figure out what to do with the tail lights. WOW...it's going to be a short bed, 1955 apache fleetside one day. Still very rough but with a lot more work and a bunch of bending and smoothing and cutting and welding, it's gonna happen! We salvaged enough metal from the long bed to make a full run with decent metal. No more rocket rail. This fleet side with no rail or a mini rocket will be a show winner guaranteed!!! What are we going to do with the tail light. Mini rocket rails? Notice some of the top bedside sheet metal getting fitted on the bed side. Both in the front and at the rear too. Look close. Fleetside sheet metal getting fitted. We are leaving the stake pockets in. This will really add to regiditty of the fleetside metal. Cut the right side bed sheet metal into the pieces because the rocket rail has to go. Finally!!! Getting to the fleetside bed sheetmetal. There is a lot of cutting and grinding and fitting and art about to happen!! A fleetside 1955, yahoooo! Cab corners have to go. Sandblasted cab. Some of the blemishes revealed by the sandblasing process. Back from sandblasting. It looks primed but it is not. That is the way the sheetmetal looks after sandblasting. Back from sandblasting. You can never have too many white boards. Taking a break from my visit. Nicole's tempest in a teapot, firepit. Bowtie is cool.