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patch looks good and so does the rad. support, by the way i mean meaning to ask, is the chevelle in your avatar yours. if so i am very envieous that thing is sharp, is it a 68 or 69.

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HA no, I wish mine looked that good. I found that pic on my sprint android phone and downloaded it. Its a 69. Thats what Im going to build mine like minus the decals. You may be able to see mine in the background of my truck pics, Its all tore down also going through complete rebuild. It would probaly be finished right now if I wouldnt have bought this 64 C10.

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hey flip, The color that was on my chevelle was scarlett red, its a crysler color, very redish-orange. It really looked orange under the lights at the gas pumps. Ill get an older pic of it and load it on here for you.

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I thought my new rockers were a perfect fit too, until I fitted my doors. I had to lower both sides a little and redo the cab corners a second time. Hope yours fit better, it sucks to have to do things twice.

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sounds good, i will be looking foward to seeing it, i was looking at your bed again, man you sure got lucky when you found that thing, i have found there like looking for hens teeth around here.

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here are some pics of my 69 chevelle from about 5 years ago before I started tearing it down to redo everything.

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Nice Chevelle! I have been waiting for some pictures.
I spied the side of of in one of the posts earlier!! We have the same rally wheels and center caps too.
Is yours a numbers matching car?, The motor in mine was changed to a 327 from a 69 camaro:chevy:

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thats a nice chevelle, thats about the same color as my truck now.thanks for the pics do you know the paint code?

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thanks guys, Been watching the weather all day, a tornado plowed through our lowes hardware, Biglots, Tractor supply, and several neighbor hoods about 3 hours ago. Everything is a huge mess. I havent heard of any deaths as of now. Bubba I do still have the matching numbers 307 and the powerglide trans but I put a brand new 350 four bolt main GM crate motor in it back in 95 and a 350 turbo trans. I do have the paint code wrote down somewhere but will have to look for it,I do know it was called scarlette red, crysler color.

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I got inspired today and uncovered my chevelle , charged the battery a little, gave everything the once over and gave it a bath.
I was headed across town to the saturday night cruise at Pattys burger den .
Gonna Hang out and listen to JR and the Stingrays---
Now it is raining:whine:
waaaaaahhhhh !!!
Now I am staying home and cleaning the garage
At least we are not having tornados

I am still using the powerglide , and it works great, I do sometimes wait for that last shift .
I think the Color is Torch red (A 93 corvette color)

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we have been watching the weather and man yall have been through some rough stuff the last few days, hope everything is good with your family and friends, we have you in our prayers.

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ditto...it got pretty rough a little north of here, but we had nothing but wind & sunshine...a tornado also came through the Jackson, MS area where I moved from about a month ago...thoughts & prayers definitely go out to all those affected

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Hey Guys, The weather was so nice here friday so I took 1/2 day vacation and came home. I had my truck pushed out of the shop by 10:30 and started sandblasting on it. I had to do the whole roof including around the back window and also the pass side door jam. I finshed it up and spayed 2 light coats of etch primmer on it and then put 2 coats of nason sealer on it. By the time I finshed and walked into the house it was 6:30. Talking about be worn out, I was ready for bed, lol

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looks good, i really like your cab cart. speaking of weather we just went threw the same thing yall did a couple weeks ago with the tornandos. very scary, several lives lost mast destruction all around us. remember these families in your prayers.

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looks good i was down i pfafftow or something like that the day the came threw didnt even know what was going on till me an my bro came back to va from getting my 64 shortbed fleet

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Hey Guys, I got 2 questions for a good body man. I took the windsheild out of my truck today. You can see the dark green factory color of the truck. When is the best time to put the seam sealer back in the gaps where the panels meet?? I dug all of the origional sealer out and sandblasted then ectch primmed it then put some nason sealer primmer on it. Next question is the wax like stuff around the windsheild gasket, Do I need to put this stuff back on the new gasket when I put my other windshield in??? Thanks, Also included a pic of my mother-in-laws old milk jug she wanted me to paint for her, I guess it came out ok, wish It was in better shape, it had a lot of rust and dents in it.

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since you have stripped the caulk out and blasted and primed you can put the seam sealer in now,and i am assuming you are talking about around the roof and other areas.as far as the windshield area goes you can clean it down to bare metal and prime that area too.then trim around the windshield with the color you are going to paint the truck before you reinstall the windshield.as far as the sealer around the windshield you should not have to put anything around the rubber unless it leaks after a water test and if it does it is windshield sealer that most of the time is black and it fits a standard size caulking gun.i have had good luck with installing windshields in these trucks and generally since you will probably be using a new gasket you should not have too much of a problem with leaks.

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I may stumble across it in my searching, but,
Is that an inner rocker with partial floor pan?
Or is it the whole floor pan trimmed down?
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...1&d=1295146306
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...1&d=1295146306

I've considered just buying the whole pan, but mine only has issues similar to the pics here.

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I finally got some time in the shop for a couple days. I finished welding the pass side patch in the floor and cut off the rotted out cab corner.

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well today I went down to the shop and decided to try to flip my cab on its back. I used a chain and the cherry picker. It worked pretty good, I was glad when it was fully flipped. wasnt the funest thing I have ever done. So if I can get some time now I can replace the rear cab support braces.

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anyone got know a good way to get old thick undercoating stripped off?? I been using air craft paint remover and a scrapper. any better ideas??

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where did you get those floor panels??? about the undercoating have you tried a heat gun set it on high if it has two settings and a scrapper it might help!! my dad told me that i need to try it, i haven't started on my floors yet but will be when it cools off some, its been way to hot to do anything!! n-e-ways let me know about the panels and if heating it works for you!!

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On the bottom of the cab I used a sandblaster and it worked, but I spent a lot of time and wasted a lot of sand. On the inside of the bedsides I used a metal scrapper and had good luck. The stuff was so dried out though it came up better than I expected.

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Hey guys, been real busy working 7 days a week and doing yard work. I havent had much time to work on the truck and when I did Its been too hot. I got the last patch made for the pass side rear floor finished and welded in. I also got the new cab support trimmed and fitting nice, just need to weld it in.

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I been experimenting with some rust removal. I bought some grandmas molasses and got an old pan and mixed the molasses 1 part to 10 parts water. Mixed it up good and dropped in some rusty bolts from the battery tray. I let them just sit there and soak for a week and a half. went down to the shop the other night and fished one out and wiped it off with some carb cleaner and a rag and the bolt looked brand new and clean. i coudlnt beleive how good it turned out. check out the pics!!!

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i must have overlooked your post, and what the heck is grandmas molasses never heard of it before, and where did you get it. looks like it did a good job on the bolt. i will come by next week and get started on your hood,lol.

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so did you try the heat gun and scraper idea?? is so how did it work for you, i still havent done this to mine yet! im wanting for my undercoating to come in

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Im getting closer to welding on my rockers panels!! Im trying to figure out the best thing to put on the inside of the rockers. Im thinking of undercoating them or just put some paint in there. what are you guys using??? I ordered some por15 from eastwood to do my cab floor with and it came in tuesday. I got everything being held togather with sheet metal screws until I pre fit the rockers and make sure everything is lined up right. Guess im going to be flipping the cab again soon.

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i would probably just give two coats of epoxy primer, when i was doing yhe frame on my 72 4x4 i used it in black, it looked just like chassie black and the paint rep said anything i put on top of it would be the weak link that the epoxy would last longer than i would. and your patch panels are nice you definetly have some metal working skills:metal:

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Chevelle, I had my cab blasted by a professional; he used an oxy-acetylene torch and a scraper to remove the undercoating before blasting. I incorporated the same method on my fenders; I used a handheld propane torch and a scraper, and it worked great. Hope this helps.

Nice progress!

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I been working on the truck some , getting ready to weld on both rocker panels. finally got everything lined up as good as its going to get. mounted the doors and got the door gaps right. Pics coming soon. This saturday is the SUPER CHEVY show at rockingham dragway. Ill be heading down there earlly, its been about I guess 12 years since the last super chevy show was at the rock.

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cant wait to see the rockers, wish i was closer to rockingham would love to go to the car show. i been to the rock once but it was the dragstrip not the round track. had a cousin competeing in the north against the south 5.0 shoot out, pretty cool even thoygh it was fords.

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Hey flip, You probally already know next weekend is the GOOD GUYS SHOW at the charlotte motor speedway that Im planning on going to also. I have also been to alot of those 5.0 shootouts down at the rock. when me and my buddys we younger we were at the rock every friday night seems like. I use to run my chevelle and my buddy had a 78 Z28. Im a die hard chevy guy but I have had a few 5.0s in the past, just buying them and doing a little TLC and then reselling and making a profit to fund my chevy projects.

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Hey guys. I didnt find any parts for my truck at rockingham today, there wasnt even any old trucks like ours. Only one panel that I snapped a pic of while he was leaving. Lots of chevelles down there that I really enjoyed seeing. Best Of all was the 15000hp jet truck that ran 219mph in the quarter. while downloading pics I found a pic I took after cleaning my daily ride thats a 01 silverado. Its sunset orange matallic.

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Nice work Allabout. With how fast your going, you'll be done before all of us. :metal:

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strodders right, man your flying. i really like the silverado looks good. i like the mustangs too, as a matter of fact the fastest i have ever been was in a mustang coupe car, 6.51 1/8 mile track but come to think about it we did have a small block 400 chevy motor in it though:lol:

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We had a nice 75 degree day here today so I took half a vacation day and came home. I got both my rocker panels welded in. I still have a few spots to weld and then grind down all the welds. I guess when I get that done I can pull the doors back off and flip the cab so I can weld the bottom of the rockers to the inner ones. Then I will be able to wire brush the bottom of the cab and get to the POR15. I still want to finish the body work on the roof while the cab is on its back. heres a few pics...

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very nice, i will be replacing my rockers after this winter! your welds look great, keep at it you'll be done in no time!!

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rockers look great, you definatly have some skills.

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I didnt go to the goodguys show today because of weather. I really wanted to work on my truck anyways. I stripped the inside of the cab today. steering coloumn, firewall pad, instrument cluster, glove box door, ashtray, and all the heater components. Does anyone know where the 3 vacumn hoses coming from the windsheild washer squirters go to under the dash??? I dont see anywhere they would go under the dash. All I see under the dash is the windsheild wiper motor and it has no place to hook hoses to it. Im stumped on this, they were just hanging under the dash, must be something missing. anyway heres some pics and looks like its time to remove the doors and flip the cab again to weld bottom of rockers and POR15 the bottom of the floor.