1957 WHITE 3000 COE CABOVER X-CAB TRUCK: KUSTOM HOT RAT ROD TOPKICK GASSER

1957 Other Makes 3000 C.O.E OTHER Description

1957 WHITE 3000 COE CABOVER TRUCK
These COE's make nice rod projects, ramp trucks or rollbacks. They also look great restored to original. They are very unique trucks and get lots of attention at truck or car shows. The white COE is a rarer coe to find, and it has a cool "round cab" design with the extra cab. The extra cab would be good for storage, although a shorter person or child could use it as a sleeper. I'm sure a dog would like to lay up there also. There are a lot of creative ways people have restored these trucks. They put flatbeds, ramp bodies, rollbacks, wrecker beds, campers, and pickup boxes on them. Regular 8-9' stepside boxes from the era look great. Restoration pieces are made to build a bed out of scratch, including tailgates. Old original boxes are not hard to find though. I've included many pictures below to give you an idea of the different possibilities of these trucks. I've seen custom crew cabs built out of these, and suburbans/panels too. I can send more pics of the white also, as there are only 24 on here. I have experience shipping vehicles like this and can help with that process if needed. This truck does have a clear title. Thanks.
Note:
The rear frame stub was cut off to shorten the truck for transport. I can include it if you want. I can also take the outer duals off and strap them on the frame, but I know this truck will fit on all flatbed trucks/car haulers, except a stacker trailer.
MECHANICAL
This truck has the original big six inline gas engine with manual transmission. This is a 477 cubic inch mustang model engine. That was the name of the engine, and it's printed on it. I know these motors are probably not efficient but may be cool for a rat rod and I know some of the big inline sixes sound cool with straight pipes and/or stacks. They sound kind of like a diesel. A turbo may be cool on it? More power and maybe better efficiency. I have not checked to see if it this engine runs. It looks complete and original, with nothing gone besides the battery. The transmission shifts and holds it in gear. The clutch is has a hydraulic slave cylinder that needs rebuilt/replaced. When I got the truck and had it my shop, I was attempting to turn over the engine with no success. I had to take the truck out of my shop but was looking at it later and figured out that it was stuck in gear and the clutch was not working. They had the driveline disconnected. I manually disengaged the truck and got the transmission in neutral. I reconnected the driveline. It snowed a bunch here then and I never got back to seeing if it would turn over or run. The engine has some new parts and the lift motor/cylinder for the cab has been rebuilt.
BODY
The body on this truck is in nice shape for a coe to restore. The cab is nearly rust free. It has rust in back cab corners which is common for these. The drivers side floor has a small spot of rust. It's not the floor actually but where the vertical seat mount meets the floor. It can be easily fixed with sheet metal. When I say easy, I mean by a bodyman or someone who has some experience. If you have no experience, a butt-weld patch is not real easy, but not that difficult to learn with a decent wire feed and practice. There is a little rust in the floorboard but this floorboard is removeable so they are very easy to repair or replace . The roof, doors, rest of the cab, etc. are clean and solid. No large dents and really no small ones that I can recall but it may have a few. Doors open/close properly. The small doors under the xcab windows are access doors to the engine. They operate also. The xcab side windows and rear windows are new and included. The windshield is cracked but included for a template. The door windows are usable. Air horn on the roof. Overall, this is a great body to start with for a resto.
INTERIOR
The seat is usable. There is really no other fabric interior. Dash is in good shape/ The doors shut and latch. Seats are comfortable. Cool gauge pod. Plenty of leg and headroom and I'm 6'5". If your doing a rat truck or low budget resto, you'd really only need to replace the floormat/carpet and you could use the interior as-is.
OVERALL
These COE trucks get tons of attention at the car shows. There are many online pics to see how they are fixed up and get ideas for your truck. Below are some other coe's so you can see the potential. Thanks, and happy bidding. Sold as-is. .
On Oct-12-14 at 17:30:11 PDT, seller added the following information:

On Nov-09-14 at 17:59:20 PST, seller added the following information: