Tri-C Engineering : Build it once, Build it right, 56 GMC chassis to have the front of the frame boxed, for The Fries Family.

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Build It Once, Build It Right
The Fries Family '56 GMC

The Fries Family handed the chassis over to Tri-C Engineering in Valencia, California, to have the front of the frame boxed before Total Cost Involved cross member was welded in.

Facts & Figures
	David Fries Sagus, California 1956 GMC
	FRAME:stock
	MODIFICATIONS: front 'rails by Tri - C
	REAREND/ RATIO: Ford 9" from TCI
	REAR SUSPENSION: TCI leaf srpings
	FRONT SUSPENSION: TCI Mustang II IFS
	FRONT BRAKES: Ford drum
	STERRING BOX: rack-and-pinion
	FRONT WHEELS: American Racing Hopster 16"
	REAR WHEELS: American Racing Hopster 18"
	FRONT TIRES: Dunlop 215/55ZR16
	REAR TIRES: Dunlop 255/55ZR18
	GAS TANK: Brothers aluminum, under bed
	SHOCKS: Pete & Jake's shocks, Bilstein coil covers

	ENGINE: '02 GM ZZ4 355cid
	HEADS: Stock
	VALVE COVERS : moroso
	MANIFOLD / INDUCTION: edelbrock Air Gap/ holley 750
	IGNITION: HEI
	HEADERS: Hooker block hunger
	EXHAUST / MUFFLERS: custom 2 1/2" Hushpower II
	TRANSMISSION: '00 TH-400
	SHIFTER: Dunlop 215/55ZR16

	STYLE: 1/2 ton 100
	MODIFICATIONS: shaved, smoothed, one-peice door glass
	FENDERS FRONT / REAR: stock steel
	HOOD: stock
	GRILLE: stock painted
	BED: stock
	BED WOOD : Ash by Horkey's

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Thanks to Rod and Custom's writer Gray Baskerville for creating this write up on these two genuine cars.

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