any help or suggestions would be greatly apprieciated.
this has been a dream of since i was a kid.
im not sure about how to go about it.
i was hoping that there was a frame that would match up
thanx  

No offense but a nicely restored 55 is worth far more than any new 4x4.  

Are you planning on using a real '55? Or one of those fiberglass repros? I kinda agree with snoman here... dude, there is not a lot of the original classics left.
You might take a tape measure to the junk yard and size up a few chassis'. A newer GM long wheelbase 4X4 chassis just might be close enough to look good, of course there'll still be some fabrication involved.  

Dude listen, if you're gonna do this at least do as fatguy said use one of those 55 fiberglass kit car bodies. Wasting an original 55 body for a 4x4 is a sin I think(check the Bible on that not sure, but I think so). Use the fiberglass body and check Junkyards for a truck frame thats close, like Fatguy said no mater how close you get to you'll still have a consideralble amount of fab work. How's your welding and fab skills?  

I believe it IS biblical! Look it up in second parentheses.
I saw a '58 Chevy truck with a '98 sportside bed and it looked good! I know it's not the same thing here, but The rear end sat perfectly in the wheel wells and side to side it looked right.  

fatguy4X4:
I believe it IS biblical! Look it up in second parentheses.
I saw a '58 Chevy truck with a '98 sportside bed and it looked good! I know it's not the same thing here, but The rear end sat perfectly in the wheel wells and side to side it looked right.

You wouldn't happen to have any pictures of that would you? I'd like to see that. As far as the '55 goes I don't think I've ever seen that done. The majority of cars I've seen converted over to 4x4 where them early '80's Camaros, remember them things? Oh, and that episode of the Dukes of Hazard when the General Lee went 4x4. As far as Bibilical goes I believe it's in the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not deface a Chevy Bel Air!  

I'll look for a photo of that truck, I know I have one. It was at The Goodguys Nats in Columbus a couple years back. It had custom "Z58" stickers on the rear quarters instead of Z71. But I am easily amused...big tires, big motors, shiny paint, pretty girls ---I don't get out much.  

Yup, same here, easily amused. Especially the pretty girls part. My wife says my shop looks like a shrine to the '50s and '60s pin-up girls and Playboy.  

yeah i think people would be either pissed or disguised.  its like those morons that lift there caprices or impalas.............but a fiberglass one would be cool like a replica thing  

Yeah it would becool as long as he used the fibergass body. I'm sure if he found a truck frame and had the fabrication skills needed to put graph the '55 body on it shouldn't be to bad. I'd look for a '60s model short bed truck frame and start with that.