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1955 Chevy Step Side

Motortopia Staff . 8th November, 2022
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  • 1955 Chevy Step Side
  • 1955 Chevy Step Side
  • 1955 Chevy Step Side
  • 1955 Chevy Step Side
  • 1955 Chevy Step Side

Vehicle Details

Owner/ Builder

Mike Krummen

Vehicles Highlights

Manufacturing year: 1955

Engine:

BUILDER

  • Mike Krummen Cincinnati, Ohio

ENGINE

  • 2002 GM LS1
  • 2002 GM LS1 exhaust manifolds
  • LS1 Corvette valve covers
  • K&N air filter

TRANSMISSION

  • 2002 GM 4L60E Automatic

FRAME

  • 1955 Chevy ¾ frame (made into a short-bed wheelbase)
  • Fatman Mustang II front clip
  • Rear frame rails bridge notched

SUSPENSION

  • Shop: Mike Krummen
  • Heidts 2-inch dropped spindles
  • Scott’s Hotrods upper control arms
  • Firestone pneumatic front ’bags
  • Flaming River power steering rack
  • 1969 Camaro 12-bolt rearend with 3.73 gears
  • Triangulated-wishbone 4-bar

BRAKES

  • GM 13-inch rotors front and rear
  • Four-piston calipers

WHEELS

  • Boyd Coddington New Wave
  • 18x8 front
  • 20x10 rear

TIRES

  • BF Goodrich 245/45-18 front 275/40-20 rear

Transmission:

Exterior Color:

Interior Color:

Specification

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BUILDER

  • Mike Krummen Cincinnati, Ohio

ENGINE

  • 2002 GM LS1
  • 2002 GM LS1 exhaust manifolds
  • LS1 Corvette valve covers
  • K&N air filter

TRANSMISSION

  • 2002 GM 4L60E Automatic

FRAME

  • 1955 Chevy ¾ frame (made into a short-bed wheelbase)
  • Fatman Mustang II front clip
  • Rear frame rails bridge notched

SUSPENSION

  • Shop: Mike Krummen
  • Heidts 2-inch dropped spindles
  • Scott’s Hotrods upper control arms
  • Firestone pneumatic front ’bags
  • Flaming River power steering rack
  • 1969 Camaro 12-bolt rearend with 3.73 gears
  • Triangulated-wishbone 4-bar

BRAKES

  • GM 13-inch rotors front and rear
  • Four-piston calipers

WHEELS

  • Boyd Coddington New Wave
  • 18x8 front
  • 20x10 rear

TIRES

  • BF Goodrich 245/45-18 front 275/40-20 rear

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BODY PAINT

  • Doors suicide
  • Door handles shaved
  • 2 inches shaved from hood
  • Front bumper narrowed 4 inches
  • Rear small window removed, replaced with 1955 big window
  • Side window wing vents removed
  • Side window one-piece glass
  • Bed inner wheel tubs
  • Bed floor mahogany with stainless steel stringers
  • Smooth rear roll pan
  • Custom ’80s Cadillac vertical headlights
  • Painter: Mike Krummen
  • PPG K-38 primer surfacer
  • House of Kolor basecoat, Sunrise Orange and Sunset Orange mixed with pearl
  • Sikkens Autoclear II

INTERIOR

  • Mike Krummen, Jeff Redding and Eric Wunder
  • Honda Prelude bucket seats
  • Seats, custom door panels and kick panels covered with Mandarin Tan leather
  • Custom steel smoothed dash
  • All-steel waterfall center console
  • Dakota Digital gauges
  • Air Ride Technologies control panel
  • Vintage Air control panel
  • Electric window switches
  • Flaming River chromed tilt shifter steering column
  • Billet Specialties Stiletto 14- inch half-wrapped Mandarin Tan leather
  • Pioneer CD/DVD head unit
  • Kicker amps
  • Fosgate 6.5-inch speakers and tweeter
  • Fosgate 10-inch subwoofers