"One day in May 1955, I was walking home from school with my friends. As we got closer to my house I noticed a new truck parked in our driveway. It was a '55 Chevy pickup. My friends noticed it too.

Don't let the title fool ya, though this may be the Carlson's first crack at a full-size classic, it's by no means their first rodstoration. Josh has been building cool custom mini-trucks for years ...

For Justin Padfield and the crew at Scott's Hotrods in Ventura, California, that is exactly the situation they ended up in. Justin tells us this '55 Chevy truck was received in barter for a 700-R4 ...