It’s been a minute since Mike Finnegan’s ramp truck Chevy has been seen. Last time we had heard much about it, the 5.9L Cummins and transmission had been liberated from a surplus military Dodge aircraft tug work truck and had been jammed into the framerails of the 1974 C30. And that was about it. We didn’t get first start-up, we didn’t get exhaust noise, and we damn sure didn’t get dually burnout footage. But there is a lot to do when you are converting a truck to run an engine that it was never engineered to have, like wiring, firewall re-shaping, and other tidbits that have to be dealt with like running the exhaust, setting up a driveline system that is going to survive what Finnegan is sooner or later going to do with it, and installing gauges that will keep tabs on that half-ton lump of oil-burning power under the hood. This isn’t supposed to be a race vehicle…the ’55 Chevy fills that role. But it’d be nice to use the Ramp Truck for it’s intended purpose without getting passed by every last thing on the highway, too. With the guys from Power Driven Diesel back in the shop, work can get finished.
We just hope that the Ramp Truck was finished before those guys blew up that Dodge Ram seven ways from Sunday!
Has Finne seen the green dodge ’em?? 😀