Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

To celebrate some progress, I took my first ever selfie....

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Doug, brackets look good, nice looking saw. Good progress....Jim

Selfie
 

Love the selfie!! Nice!!

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

awwwwsuuuummmm, stellar work. man that lift must make life alot easier!!!!!

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Thanks Jim! First time I used that saw on a project.

Sir-GTO...Thanks for checking in. Looking forward to the LS swap on your 65 wagon!

99..thanks man! The lift really makes it easier to do decent work.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

comin out great ...i'am puttin this on my"follow build" page...lol

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Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Thanks Slammed57 and Mark!

The lids for the 99r46 boxes are done thanks to LJ Customs and Blasting. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lj-cu...44230735633756

Really appreciated kicking around the ideas guys.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

AD;

Them covers look great.

T-P Auto
Tim :chevy:

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Nice...Jim

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Great work Doug.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

At least you have a plasma!! Nice looking motor and trans mounts.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Coming along nicely, I am really starting to like this old girl....

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Looks awesome AD! Great work and nice shop. Looks like another project or two in there.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Thanks Tim! Luke did a nice job on them.

Appreciate that Jim!

Thanks Hart_Rod, I am really enjoying your builds.

Thanks lower50's...it was a wedding anniversary present from a few years ago. Wife got a bracelet. The plasma is way more useful!

Thank you 98...really enjoying your Burb build. Will likely be copying what you are doing when we get a 67 - 72 Burb. Have the wants!

Thanks Sim6, we've been making improvements to the place since we bought it 18 years ago. Yeah, I have automotive attention deficit disorder. The 35 Chevy Master coupe is to the "build it up before blowing apart for paint stage"...and I started in on the Burb. If you are interested, here is a short build thread on the metal work we've done to the 35.
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/jour...ge=1&reverse=1

Thanks for the observations, encouragement and suggestions guys. That and knowing I am showing what I am doing to everyone here is helping me to do better work.

I like it so well on this forum I bought a hat!

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

I really like your storage box idea. I might try that on my sub.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Great work on your others. Do you have a build thread for the truck in your avatar photo?

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Thanks 65sub. Gotta give credit to 99 to life and ratty46 for the idea that came up as we were discussing what to do with the cut out areas above the wheel tubs.

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Thanks Sim6, unfortunatley I don't. That was a fun build where a bunch of my buddies came in over a long week end and we put the truck on bags, four link rear, build engine and trans mounts, metal finished the fenders and trial assembled it in a week end. We started with a pile of parts shown and had something that looked like a truck a few days later. It was fun!

Then wife and I finished up some things, had a friend do some paint and plumbing work then we finish assembled.

The truck cab was the most solid I've ever seen. It needed zero rust repair.

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Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

love that pickup.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

I'm in on this one! I've was hoping to be where you're at about three weeks ago ;)

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Doug, great story on the pickup, and great friends to help out. A sweet looking ride, hope to see it one day...Jim

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Thanks all for the comments on the truck! Sad part is we sold it to buy a new DD for the wife here a few years ago. We don't borrow and needed more cash...so....of course wish we would have kept it.

Good news is it went to a higher end hot rod shop who needed it for a customer build. He wanted a truck like his Dad had back in the day. Fairly high dollar build and many of my parts were still installed, so that was a nice feeling.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Doug, sorry to hear you had to sell, but another good story about the redo nice looking ride...Jim