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Btw, I'll have the truck back at our shop soon to detail it for an upcoming show and I'll try to take some more/better overall shots of it. I've also talked to the owners to see if they'd let us have a professional photographer do a photo shoot of the truck to really capture the details and quality of work. |
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I'd say that you've set the bar pretty high. It is very inspiring to see your attention to detail in this build. I have not seen anyone in this area do this nice of work. I sincerely hope that your restoration business does very well for you.
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Just went through your entire thread. What a great way to showcase your shops ability to perform a detailed (High Quality) restoration! Hat is off to you and your crew!
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Stunning!!! I am in awe.
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I'm blown away, absolutely blown away. Your level of detail is incredible. I've done restorations in the past, and many people do not understand the time and effort that it takes to build something to that high of a standard.
I love everything about this truck. As I've said before, I love hot rods, but there's a special place in my heart for bringing something back to a better-than-factory condition. This truck is a GREAT business card for your shop. It'll bring you more work than you can handle! Keep posting pictures. This thread should be a sticky for anyone wanting to do a correct resto. |
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Again, thanks for the kind words!
Getting close to getting the rest of the pics uploaded. Here's some of the final assembly. One of my pet peeves with these trucks is the panel fitment from the factory, its terrible! I already have a few pics of the rough body work showing a little of the work I did getting the panels flush with each other and all the gaps to match but I didn't explain the whole process. I used 1/8 inch welding rods to weld onto the edges of the panels that needed the gaps closed up. I also made a "feeler guage" from nylon to check the gaps with; if the guage was loose, I welded the edge. If it was tight, I ground the edge down. The inner fender braces were sliced horizontally every 3 or so inches to reshape the fender to the shape of the door. The edges of the fender extensions were relief cut to match the shape of the door, hood, and cowl. The hood had to be narrowed 1/4 inch to make the back edge flush with the sides of the fender extensions and doors. I cut the back of the cab loose in the doorjambs and pulled the opening in or out to match the shape of the rear of the doors. The inner door bottom patch panels didn't fit the shape of the rockers so the lip was cut off and a new one made with a shrinker/stretcher to better match the curve of the rockers. The rear inner door post were relief cut and leaned in to match the shape of the rear of the cab. The fender bottoms were pie cut and reshaped to flow into the rockers better. The cab corners were cut and reshaped to match the rockers. Once all the metal work was finished and fine-tuned and the panels in their final alignment with all the latches in place and adjusted, I skim coated across the seams and long-block sanded across the panels as if they were all one panel. This got the final shape and flushness dead-on. At that point, I could take a straight edge and lay it across any seam and there would be no gap between the straight edge and the body. Here's the results of all that work. Door to cab gap. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._4265079_n.jpg The reflection of the florescent light bulbs stay level one panel to the next. Another of my pet peeve's is reflections that don't carry over evenly to the next panel. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s...5_599402_n.jpg The inside edges of the fender extensions were bodyworked just like the rest of the truck. Never would know that it had about a dozen cuts in it! Also re-dimpled the edges to mimick the factory spot welds. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._1627956_n.jpg Top of the passenger side door/fender extension. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._8252680_n.jpg http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._3150269_n.jpg Cowl to fender extension and base of A pillar. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._1673251_n.jpg http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._1151974_n.jpg Driver's side door to fender gap. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._5411524_n.jpg Right fender to door. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._6763673_n.jpg Left fender to door. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._2170477_n.jpg I saved this shot for last as I think this is one of the best shots I have that show off the panel flushness. The reflections stop at the edge of the door and pick up again nearly seamlessly again on the fender. The angle of the reflection doesn't change from panel to panel. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s...4_593270_n.jpg |
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Wow. Yeah, these trucks are pretty bad. That's a lot of very nice work!
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How have i missed this thread in the past!! This is absolutely beautiful work.
Love it that you did the original white surround with black background for the grille - that seems to be missed so often or half-done (i.e. just the white surround, with body color background), which is just fine for a custom truck, looks good - but I prefer the "floating grille" look you get by doing it the factory way (that's just me though). One quick question - I noticed the way you painted the wheels with a dark center (under the hubcaps) - was that done that way from the factory? I've never seen that done before - looks good, just curious if original, and if not (or, actually, if so too) what was the purpose? BEAUTIFUL truck, holy frijoles. |
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I can understand why alot of guys don't paint the grill shell and fenders tri-tone, its alot of work! And if you don't mock up the front clip when you mask it (or mark where to mask) the tape edges won't line up when you put it back together. The "floating grill" look is the best though! While we're on the subject, does anybody know if gloss black, or satin, or flat black is correct for the grill background? I went ahead and cleared everything but I wasn't sure... so I left it gloss. |
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semi gloss (satin) black was used behind the grill,frame,suspension components,inner front fenders.this is one nice truck i must say you have done a wonderful job of restoring it.
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WOW! Your work is simply amazing!! You have on super fine truck. I would be scared to death to drive it. With my luck i would get t-boned the first time out.
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oh my oh my. thats a tone of detail on there. looks great. you must have lots of patients.
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Incredible detail. Wow.
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excellent work! looks great
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Thats one sweet resto!
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Thanks guys!
CVA59, I've driven it three times and it's not that bad, although I'm used to driving a classic car daily so I'm always on my toes anyways. Here's some more details. Polishing the bumper and splash pan bolts. Chucked the bolts in a drill to smooth them out. Held the drill (running) against a pnumatic grinder with a 120 grit flap wheel to rough shape the bolt and get the imperfections out. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._5911682_n.jpg http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._6481085_n.jpg After grinding. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._4985224_n.jpg Moved up to a 320 grit flap wheel, same process. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._4454853_n.jpg Switched to wetsanding (still chucked in the drill) using a soft sanding pad with 500 grit wetordry paper. Starting to get a hazy shine. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._3482120_n.jpg First step on the buffer using green (i think?) compound. Almost there. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._1363504_n.jpg After buffing with white compound, hand polishing with Wenol metal polish, and installing it on the bumper. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._6523822_n.jpg License plate bracket installed. Still needs to be spaced down. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._6188594_n.jpg Bracket adjusted and wired, tag installed. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._8226695_n.jpg Final buffing and cleaning. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._6169549_n.jpg Hood finished up. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._4257152_n.jpg A few random parts installed: http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s...3_693563_n.jpg The wrong mirror base gasket came in with no time to order another before it's first car show so I had to put the mirror on without it. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._7865798_n.jpg Door jamb plugs. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._2210614_n.jpg Had to take the steering column back apart to fix the turn signal contacts in the new switch. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._3410617_n.jpg http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._2245493_n.jpg |
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This is amazing work. Are you doing all of it in your garage including the painting? Truely amazing!
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i cant even begin to grasp the amount of awesome work done on this truck, you sir have a true vision
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That is absolutely outstanding work! Hard to believe this is your first restoration, your attention to detail, and tenacity for perfection rivals those who have done this for years. For my own vehicles I've never been a back to stock kind of guy, but I really enjoy seeing them done like this, and really enjoyed reading through your thread here. I can't wait to see more pictures as you get this project wrapped up, and I will bet the owners are floored at the final project (I know I can barely believe what I am seeing). Again, congrats on a job superbly done. If you think about it and have the time, please pots up some of your other projects in the "Alternative Tinkerings" section here, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love to watch other vehicles get similar treatment.
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Here's a few pics of the truck outside for the first time, and driving it to it's first show. I'll have to get some more pictures of it next time we take it to a show for the owners as these are all I have of it finished. Couple shots of the interior almost finished. Stayed at the shop every night for a week til 10pm working to get it ready for it's first show. Stayed up til 3:30am Saturday morning doing the final detail. Went home, slept til 6:30 and went back to the shop to drive it to the show. Longest week of my life! http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s...9_196845_n.jpg http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._1057262_n.jpg http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._1450135_n.jpg The owner and me, holding a best in class trophy. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._8102809_n.jpg http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._6296208_n.jpg |
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awsome detail. you do great work . you will be very busy!!!
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I came across this shot of the truck when I was on Facebook today while looking through an album of our local Downtown Father's Day Car Show.
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Absolutely some of the nicest work I have seen.......I'm really impressed.
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Sick detail on this one. I hope I have the patience to come close on mine. Great job!
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If anybody is interested, here's a few links to the albums on facebook that I used to keep up with progress on the '65 as I worked on it. There's about 520 pics total, alot of them are ones I posted here though so you'll see some duplicates.
Part 1: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...0c0bd74&type=1 Part 2: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...144d6ae&type=1 Part 3: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...7c3bbab&type=1 |
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WOW!!
Nice work my friend. Thank you for all the beautiful detail in your build pictures. I will be able to reference many of them in my rebuild process. |
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AMAZING DETAIL ON THE BUILD...This has got to be one of the finest stock restos I have ever seen..
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Crazy detail. You set the bar really high. :metal:
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looks like the bar was set really high. Great work and a very nice truck.
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I spoke with the owner of the truck last week and they may be forced to sell the truck sometime next year. I'd really hate to see them have to let it go after keeping it in the family since it was only a year old, and being their dad's truck, and their son's first car, and all the stories and memories tied to it. As much as I'd like to own it, there's no way I'd be able to afford to buy it from them to keep it close to home and make sure the truck is kept up like it should be. I'd hate to see it sold and somebody modify it from the way it is, or go somewhere far off and never see it again. After spending many thousands of hours and ~5 years (I'm 24 so that's 1/5 of my life!) working on restoring it, I've got kind of attached to it! |
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that would be a horrible horrible thing.
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Just read this post.
I am both happy and sad to read this took 5 years. Sad that it is such a large part of your life spent on it and then they may end up selling it... but happy because I know I can slow down and be patient with mine (that I just started) I only get 2 ~maybe~ 3 years to work on mine depending on where I get posted after this duty station. Awesome awesome work, congratulations! |
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It took me a solid half week to figure out how to reproduce the body tag and nail down the process once I found what I needed to make it. And after making the first one and installing it, it got wet and the graphics streaked so I had to come up with another one and make it more durable. Finding the rivets to attach it took quite a few hours of driving around, searching the local fastener shops (had to order it-more waiting), and then finding the correct longer mandrel for the nut-sert tool because of the deeper depth of the threads in the riv-nut. I could have used shorter depth riv-nuts but the threads would have been visible and not have looked as correct. Of course there's no way I could have charged for all of that time and still have a clear conscience, so I only charged for the time it took to make the second tag and install it; about an hour. You don't make any money money that way, but I wouldn't feel right charging for nearly a whole week to research, make, and install a kick panel tag. And it would have driven me crazy to leave the old faded tag on there since it wouldn't be up to the standard of the rest of the truck. Maybe one day I'll start making and selling them to recoop some of the money I didn't make during the time it took to figure the process out. The rough draft of the repro graphics and the original faded tag. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._3828789_n.jpg The first tag. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s..._2962781_n.jpg The second tag. http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s...2_873448_n.jpg I hope that explains a little bit of the reason projects like these can take so long. . |
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