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Nice work Roger!

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Just looked at it.

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That's excellent if it's that good. MORE congrats. Can't wait to see it come together!

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Took off to Mid-American Nats this morning and got back home around 8:00 pm tonight 268 miles round trip, will go back tomorrow and post some pics...Jim

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Washed & clayed then out for a little ride

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Another angle

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Thanks Dan.

I took a couple of close-ups today. You can see a little peel in there but there just isn't much.

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_1833.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_1825.JPG

Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
 

57 swb. I installed my a/c. I put the under dash unit against the back cab wall(it did not look good and stuck out to far under the dash), between the bucket seats. I would rather have it blow cold air on me, however it cools the cab. I prefer to keep the dash open and not try to stuff the a/c under the dash is why I went with the under dash unit.

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took some pictures of work done last week for DMV documentation
But after see the "Green truck pictures.....That is very nice work.!
I'm feeling way out of my league.

Maybe I should start a thread ... what hack job did you do to your truck today
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
 

Softpatch,

Looks like you've got your work cut it for you - no pun intended. Roger's green truck IS freaking nice but yours can look just as good. Here on this board you'll get lots of encouragement and good advice. Some of the best I got from Bam(Kabwe) telling me to just keep working at it. Your skills will get better bit by bit, and incredibly mine have. I'm a total hack compared to Roger and Bam and a lot of other guys here but my work is satisfying me. My truck has new metal where it needed new metal and I'm not covering up crap with filler so I suppose that's all that really matters.

Start that "Patches" thread, we'll be looking for it!

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Got some work done on the new frame. Had some new rails bent up to go along with the PorterBuilt Fab front and rear coil-over suspension kits!

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ChuckDriver....ok, so I'm just surfing around and I end up finding the last batch of pics you posted, I haven't paid attention to the title of the site I'm on, but I swear it's got to be something to do with NASA.

Just my weird way of saying "wow" without actually saying it.

WOW, Jim

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Got to be the most awesome TF frame I've ever seen.
Nice job!!!!

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Looking good JJ...Jim

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Jim, if you use NASA to describe my build, then I must say you're building a colony on Mars!!

Thanks guys!

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JJ,
What he's saying is your build is, "out of this world!" Lol

By the way, since I've never ever asked you before what WERE your color plans for your truck when it was going to be a stepside and what have they changed to (if they have) now that it will be a Cameo.......or whatever Jimmy "Cameo's" we're called?

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I'm gonna raise the bar again....;)

I rarely post on this thread except for monumental achievements. Yesterday was time for bed installation. I have a friend, Gary, who has been wanting to participate on my truck build, I am so glad he came over, we got the bed on the truck with no issues.

During my build I knew I wanted two tone, I've seen many different ways to split the colors. I chose to follow the main body line but as we all know, the rear fenders drop this body line some 3 or 4 inches. Up til the last day I finally decided how I was going to blend the pin stripes together. Pictures tell the story.
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9vlcohgy.jpg

That's the outcome, I don't like to clutter this thread, I'll post the rest of the pics on my build thread listed below. Jim

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I had a chat with some bloke about my truck

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jimmy Shine.?
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What he say.?

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Thanks Dan, I'm thinking of some shade of blue, eventually!

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got most of the bed on the truck and the wood boards. got the taillights on too . gonna paint the bed with rustoleum for now, same like the front panel

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tailgate :)

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Putting the wood in

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Hows the quality on that panel?

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Mustang tank, What year?

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mine? its a '65 universal mustang tank from Tanks, inc. nice kit, came with sending unit that works with the stock fuel gauge.

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finished building the wood bed!

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Like I used to tell my girls when I posed them with my cars, every old car picture needs a beautiful girl in it. Nice work on the bed and good looking helper.

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I finally got it started again.


http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...psrwsxvskk.jpg

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Installed the bed floor.

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Drove it 30 miles to work this morning...

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...psyojfmq61.jpg

Gonna pick up a new sheet of plywood for a new bed floor at the HW store at lunchtime, and my new 3point seat belts & some other goodies should be waiting for me when I get home tonight, so i'll have a few small projects to goof around with.

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After 6 months of repairing sheetmetal and replacing panels on cab, finally started working on doors. Got the first door hung back on to fit new inner bottom/outer skin before welding. Got back gaps close. Now working on slicing the front, top area to fit. Still a long ways to go....

Cheers, Jim

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make sure you hang your fender to check that clearance too. Your will find from the factory 3 out of 4 are close, one will be off and you either live with it or start cutting or adding material.

I sprayed my bed-liner today.
 

SEM Pro-Tex tintable. Tinted with the same RAL-6009 Fir Green that the truck is painted with.

I sprayed it all this morning. I was out there before 6AM.
There were warning labels packed in the bed-liner box about spraying it in hot, humid conditions which is exactly what we had been having. Pot life is severely reduced and flash times have to be well longer.
So, I put the bed-liner cans in cool water last night and started early. It worked out perfect. Normal flash times are 20 minutes but because the humidity was 90%, I gave each coat an hour.

Because the whole prepare process took me longer to do than I had figured and I was getting later in the recoat window of the SPI epoxy, I decided to scuff it all with 180 sandpaper just to make sure I wouldn't have any adhesion problems. So, that took me even longer. I've worked on this every day this week and finished the final step of masking yesterday evening. I did that well. I didn't want to take any chances getting the bed-liner on anything I didn't want it on. Here's yesterday's photos:

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da.../IMG_20211.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_2028.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da.../IMG_20221.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_2046.JPG

Today's photos after removing the all the masking. The directions have you unmask as soon as the final coat is complete.

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_2047.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_2101.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_2068.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_2090.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_2089.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da.../IMG_20711.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da.../IMG_20731.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_2091.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da.../IMG_20671.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da.../IMG_20961.JPG

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_2085.JPG

This SEM Pro-Tex is good stuff. I'm impressed. I had enough for 3 coats of everything. It called for 2 to 3 coats and you have full-coverage by the second coat.

It sprays easy and is easy to make it look just like you want with how heavy you put it on and how close you hold the gun. I backed the distance off and went a little lighter on the last coat to give it a little more rough look. If a person wanted it to look more smooth, it would be easy to do but I liked it better a little on the rough side.

I think the color came out just great too and my wife (truck is for her) is extremely pleased with the whole look.

Make no mistake though. This makes a mess of your shop. Oh well, nice to have a room I built for abuse.

Next I will work towards getting the bed painted so I can mount it on the truck and get the room back to work on the paint prep for the fenders, doors and hood.

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painted my bed with Rustoleum Seaside Gloss.

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Went out for a run today https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n5UaTe...ature=youtu.be

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Got the bed cleaned out of parts and the bench seat stripped down.

http://i.imgur.com/iVzlYrk.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/XUkKdy8.jpg?1

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got the flip down license plate bracket done today. i used a stock bracket and a generic flip down bracket. the finished product looks stock with the correct license plate light!

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I didn't like seeing the rust on the chrome rocker covers

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So I took 1 off, blasted it & painted it