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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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Very nice work.
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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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