’56 Chevy Truck Gets Slammed LS Treatment (That Sound, Though!)

Back in 1956, buying a pickup truck meant something a lot different than buying a pickup truck in 2021. You see, today, just about every creature comfort that one could purchase in a high-end luxury vehicle can be an option added to the truck of a buyer’s choice. Even the most basic modern trucks have some creature comforts that make them vehicles that can reasonably transition between work and other types of driving.

Back in the day, though, that just wasn’t the case. In 1956 when the Chevy 3100 Fleetside was released, the idea was to have a machine that could get a job done. There wasn’t much of anything that made it more enjoyable to drive but instead, what buyers were offered was an engine, a steering wheel, and a bed to carry stuff around in.

While these trucks have become cool over time, back in their day, they were more of workhorses than anything. We would venture to think that most would consider them incredibly underpowered as well, especially when compared with even the most entry-level engine combinations of today.

As time would tell, though, these sorts of trucks ended up becoming incredibly popular in hot rod culture. Because of that, folks who have gotten their hands on old-school Chevy pickups have put just about every single engine imaginable under the hood.

This time, we check in with a build that has a pretty common power plant under the hood in an LS2. However, just because there are lots of LS-powered trucks running around isn’t to say that they aren’t still awesome. At the end of the day, there’s a very good reason that people pick this sort of powertrain to spice up these old-school rides.

Down in the video below, we check in with the head turner that was actually built to be daily driver capable. Combine it with a 4L80e transmission and 9-inch rear end with 4.11 gears and you have yourself quite the street rod.