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No work on the truck but did some shopping for a set of 18 x 7s & 20 x 12s,
Gobsmacked at the price, especially the shipping to the UK,

18s $750 each
20s $1250 each
Shipping $650

Then i got to put the rubber on ?

Looks like i will have to re-thing my choice ow wheels.

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Left it setting in the shop and didn't even go out and look at it. Must have had enough of it for a few days after putting the bed wood in on Sunday.

JRBECK64

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nothing at all. i'm leaving for paris france on sunday so no worky on the truck this week. i did take the after i get back off to finish the roof and dash of though. cool thread btw. and what forum are you on that started it?

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I walked by our bare cab at least a half dozen times at work, then walked by our bare frame once when i got home :rolleyes:

roofingbloke, what wheels are those?

glendale, the 73-87 section here has a long running what did you get done over the weekend, but they post a new thread every weekend...

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The site is jsmotorsports.org. Its a southern Oregon northern California bassed website but its open to anyone. I would say the majority of the people on there are people with tuner and sport compact cars but there are some trucks and 4x4's too.

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Worked on the front part of my hood today. Got my patch pannel welded in while I was in the shop and caught a break in the rain and mounted the front part back on the main part of the hood and spot welded back together. Just gotta put my patch in the front corner now and it will be good. I'll have some pics up soon.

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nothing i have been sick all day :puke:

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Put the seat and custom seat frame I built yesterday together. See shop truck thread for pics.

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got up pumped her twice and vrooooom started right up! 2 day was m day off from skool so i let my neon (gas saver) rest and drove my chariot to the taco truck and bought me some lunch ;). oh yea i got a thumbs up from a chp too!!

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Drove it!

Like I do every day.

Not much to look at, but it puts a smile on my face every time I get in it.

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This is the part that I fixed. Now I just gotta do the patch on the top part of the hood. I also moved my motor and all my junk from one place to another a few days ago aswell as picked up some pistons and a good crank for it. :metal:

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Went out a while ago planning on welding up the hood. Ended up grabbing my brand new Kafka brush and laying down some lines. Not centered too well but just playing getting some ideas for what I want to do.

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Hey thats pretty good! i have never tried it but have always liked the pinstripe look. :chevy:

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Thanks Scott. If you interested in pinstriping you should try it out! Its cheap to get started and its a fricken blast. I highly recomend the Kafka scrolling brush I use. I have a Mack and 2 Chico brushes but they are nothing like this brush. Its what I'll use for 90% of my work now. I've been striping for like 6 months now. Hopefully in a year or so I'll start striping other peoples cars. There is a high demand for it here, I was talking to the guy at the paint store and he was ready to get me some customers.:metal:

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Hid the panel in the carport. I had 12 of 19 pine trees cut down today.There goes the money for the motor I wanted.:whine::whine:
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stripes look good Sam...
Byronic, why did you do that?

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Thank you!

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I like the artwork too. Every striper has to start somewhere. The farthest I ever got was striping the wheels on my 46 Ford sedan.

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Thanks alot! What did you do to the wheels on your 46?

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pics or it didn't happen ;)

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I have been cutting out old metal on customer's big window cab and waiting for some cab corners, so I start putting it back together, maybe starting tomorrow.

Degreased the engine bay of the white '64 GMC truck. The new owner is picking it up in two weeks, so I wanted to get it dialed-in.

I also got the green '64 Chevy C20 ready for a customer to look at...he ended up driving it away with title and Bill of Sale in hand.

Picked up the balance of my painted sheet metal from the painter yesterday. It is looking good hanging on OLRED66...my '66 Chevy C20 Custom Camper.

I love these trucks and I am looking for a new project, so if you have a '60-'66 Chevy/GMC truck you would like restored, please keep me in mind.

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nice Tony!

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Thanks Vern, but the deicer I was referring to is the salt and mag chloride they put on the roads these days. That crap eats the heck out of everything that isn't plastic......so pretty much all of an old Chevy. I wish they would have just kept using sand/gravel.


Well I did do something to the Burb today. I greased the front end and the u-joints.....it was a little overdue. :o

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Welcome to Sunny Florida.

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sams60gmc,joe231
I would rather cut them out of my yard than out of my living room after a hurricane. Some were diseased and the pine sap was hurting the paint jobs on the vehichles. The wood will be milled into #2 pine and the trees will be replaced with more trees native to Florida.

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Good call Byron.

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I brough my cab to the Painter's shop for the paint prep., Shold be ready to final prime by next week. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I'VE WAITED FOR THIS!

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Now that's thinking with yer dipstick, Jimmy!

:lol:

makes perfect sense now ;)

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I agree, sand and salt would save us all. :chevy:
Today I started up my truck and let her run for about 10 minutes. Looked at it, planning, planning and more planning.

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Installed inner patch (Mar-K) panels on one bedside. Pics coming tonight on my thread.

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Watched it snow and wished I had a bigger shop. E-bay treasures arrived today. I bought a '64 wiper motor for $1.25 + 9.00 shipping Going Elk hunting this weekend in the snow. I must be crazy.

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Awesome looking cab. Congrats!
:metal:

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Thanks Sam, It's been a long 4 years, since Katrina.

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this is one of 4 loads...theres about 1/2 cord on there I need to remove my tool box so I can really give her some.....I have 4 cord to split and get in...
wanna guess what I'm doing with my truck this weekend.........:waah:

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Nothing that required artistic talent. I just added a factory style triple stripe on the center between the hubcap and the rim. I was pleased all four came out looking the same, but it took a lot of wiping off before I got it right. I've still got the brush but don't remember ever using it again.

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/731/1946ford047.jpg

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Well yesterday I played around some with the truck.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=361556&page=2

Tonite I replaced the rotor, replaced the alternator since my pretty chrome one was bad, went ahead and swithced out the Edelbrock for a Holley and finished breaking in the cam on the 283. Man she sure does sound good.

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When I first moved to Idaho I had my brother-in-law cut down a few huge and ailing trees within falling over distance of the house. Everybody thought I was nuts, until the next winter when a few roofs were caved in from snow and storm related trees falling over.

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Doesn't that suck. I had a chrome Powermaster alternator that lasted a little over a year. It starting doing weird things for several months before failing completely. I was debugging everything in the system until I finally realized it was my nice new shiny chrome trinket. After that I just got a stock looking one that works.

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Hi Jake, I remember!! Are you going to wait and have everything painted at once, or paint the pieces as the prep gets completed?

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Yeah and since that was the first time that I had started it up really sucked.