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^ was 1st coat of clear thats why it looked so dry lol

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He's alive!!! LOL Been waiting for updates looks really good man

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Lol! Im back my son got sick at 5 weeks old had a surgery procedure now that everything is back to normal at home its time to get busy again! Thanks!!

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Good to hear glad he's doing good

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Thank you! Tomorrow i hope to paint column and glove box lid also ash tray.

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Looks good.
Glad your son is doing well.
Kim

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Family first.
Bad Ass Ride!!!
I'm amazed how much you can do with kids that small. Kudos to you for finding the time!

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Thankssssss!! Ive actually been getting up really early in the morning before work to at least put in a good hour or more into it.

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Little mock up of what it will look

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Had some time to paint my column glove box and ash tray, the old school cheech and chong steering wheel worked great for a stand lol

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Looking real nice.
Kim

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Your truck is going to be sweet all painted and put together. Glad your son is doing well and hope he has a speedy recovery

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Thanks to all of you! I hope it does turn out looking good.

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Spent last night and this ironing going back through your entire thread - truly amazing what you've done, how fast you work (and spend! Lol) and now frickin NIIIICE the results are. Huge congrats.

Much more important is your little boy is healthy now, excellent!

Are you a painter/body man by trade or do you just "play" one on the Internet? Cause you do nice work. Any/all info on the material brands you use, grits, etc would be helpful to us that have nowhere near the experience you've obviously got. My M.O. with well, everything is to jump in over my head and swim out. I have always figured it out so far but any tools, materials, tricks or tips is super helpful.

Can't wait to see the rest. Best, Dan.

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Thank you Dan! I took a painting class once when I was about 18 years old at a local college I don't do it for a living because I wouldn't work on my own stuff haha. I work at a Honda dealership as a service writer but I really enjoy working on stuff for family and myself. as for materials I use rage fillers, 5 star xtreme high build primer (black) 3 m sand paper paint wise I use lower end ppg which is shopline I really like DuPont clear but has gotten very expensive so on this im using shopline as well. I really don't enter my cars in car shows I enjoy driving my classic cars a lot more then showing them. For the amount of tools I own the jobs come out pretty nice considering its all garage built.

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Thank you for the kind words about my son! My kids mean the world to me, my little girl wanted to come work on my truck monday was really cool hanging out with her

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Sprayed the inside this evening

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Next task is exterior

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Looks real good.
Kim

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Looks good, next task needs to be come to Idaho and help finish mine, i cant seem to make progress lately.

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Very glad your son is doing well! Truck looks very good. You do great work!

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Truck is looking great!

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BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE! Tomorrow morning gonna spray the front bed panel and rear bed cross member since theyre ready to paint.

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cant wait to see some paint on her. nice color by the way

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Looks good tpimuncie!
I want to see the rest in color!!

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Thanks fellas!!!

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Lol used some mexican engineering to hold cross member to ladder

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"Zip ties are your friends"

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I had to hang front bed panel from the garage door in order to spray both sides so with it moving its hard to get the clear to lay really smooth.

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Looks great to me!

Mine has a rust-through spot in the front bed roll I need to cut out but I'm a little concerned that somewhere else in the length of it there's another ALMOST ready to come through and there's really no way to reach it to blast it. I'm thinking of just pouring Rust Bullet through it as a way to stop anything that's in there.

By the way, when you spray like that how do you keep from getting overspray on your garage floor/driveway? Just wet it down, drop cloth, or what? Do you spray with a conventional automotive gun or an HVLP one?

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Yeah id be scared to blast it because it will go thru in more then one spot, this is a repop panel my original one was all mangled stretched out.
I usually wet the garage floor but it does get over spray price to pay lol

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Well yesterday i made the call to ciadella interiors in arizona theyre custom making me a seat cover in 59 impala colors along with headliner, tuxedo carpet kick panels door panel inserts and matching floor mats. Im super excited about it

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I forgot i had this flashlight holder so i went out in the garage made sure it was going to hug the column ok, dipped it in laquer thinner paint wiped off!

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I primed it (rattle can) then hit it with some flat green that actually is pretty much the same shade that nos exterior sunvisors had underneath just happens to match the insert of the future seat. Im done for today good progress!

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The tailgate looks good! Love the flash light holder and the interior is going to be very nice. Looking forward to seeing it.

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Everything is looking real nice.
Kim

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Thanks for the response.

My front panel is original and flawless except for one small dent AND of course the 3/8"-1/2" rust through spot I mentioned. Kinda hate to replace it when it's original and that nice but also wouldn't want rust through coming back after paint.

Your interior is going to be killer beautiful. What color/brand is that rattle can?

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Thanks!! Wow worth fixing buddy! Because my repop panel sucks! Had to redrill all holes to make it align decent.

Its rustoleum satin #7737 spruce green from Lowes