Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

My Camaro with a 327 was supposed to have that part. It did have the hole. Maybe that is why it leaked a LOT of oil :lol::lol::lol:
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Up on the jack, axle stands, and off with the rear wheel.

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Clean up, measure out ....

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CUT !!

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Too late now for turning around.

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Plate cut to size.

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Bent to shape....

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Old speaker magnets help to hold plate in place, no burned fingers.

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Loads of tacking, to prevent warpage.

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Grind back, retack any potential misses.

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Then mix up some filler.....

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Thin skim over plate and weld.

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Sand back

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Mask up area, and spray on primer

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Add a few coats of black, allowing to dry between coats.

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Wet sanded again this morning early before work and did a final coat blending in with existing paint.

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Tonight after work I washed the car, dried it and then proceeded to polish it (as a surprise for Nicola) the paint was good, but I knew it could do with a bit of attention.

So Harley and I decamped to the garage with the clean car.

Here is a sample of the paint after and before Zymol polish.

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Harley supervising

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Finally it looked like this, ready for Nicola to take it for MOT testing on Wednesday afternoon.

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I am going to look out for a De-cat pipe as it is a 93 L-reg car, so has to have a catalytic converter fitted.

Also want to add some clear side lights etc all the way around.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

Very Nice work on the patch... Keep Rockin Grizz!!!

Cheers

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Wow! I can't believe you went from cutting to polishing in such a short time! I'm not very current on late model cars, but that could easily pass as a new car to me. Nice work.

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Thanks Mark.
I have now spent two days including many tea breaks and other distractions on this little car. For a 21 year old in the UK it is not bad.
I just like to get on with stuff. With the polishing yesterday, I REALLY wanted to quit halfway through but then I would have to wash the car again when I got to starting again, to get dust and grit off the paintwork.

It is so rewarding to step back and say Aaaaaahh. That looks great.
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Worked in Central London today, so when I got home eventually I had a cuppa tea, and Google'd setting the handbrake on one of these. FAIL.

So I referred to the Haynes book Paul the seller had given me, and managed to figure it out.

You can either do some setting on the handbrake lever or you have a proper adjustment screw on the rear hub area.

Once I had the car high on a jack, I did the two sides and believe we now have a handbrake worthy of an MOT.

I also removed the rear Fog light ( and hope it does not constitute a fail)

Some spares landed today as well, and will get fitted next weekend.

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Fingers crossed for the MOT test tomorrow.

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MOT Fail on both track rod ball joint dust covers excessively deteriorated. Upper suspension arm ball joint excessively deteriorated. Offside drop lonk snapped.

Easy fixes once I get parts ordered.

Now onto web to order
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Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

Wow your inspectors are really serious. Most States in the US only care about smog equipment functioning, although there are a few that are more stringent.

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Yup. Serious alright.
Weird country this.
Car passed its smog test.
Funny enough, trailers wear the cars registration.
You could have cardboard box with wheelbarrow wheels as lobg as it has a reg plate.
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Couple of catch up pics

New fog light early this morning.

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Fitting it a few minutes before test out in the street

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Big scary test centre....

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And then got home to find these delivered from MX5 parts.

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Truck filled up.
About to hook up and pack Grizz-Pod caravan.
Tomorrow I am off on an 800km weekend with 300 hungry horses.
Here's to everything staying together.

And at $2.18 per liter I will be hurting.
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Rock on Grizz!!!

Lookin forward to the photo essay that is sure to follow...:metal:
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Whooooopps!!!

You just reminded me to put my camera batteries on charge.
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Back from about 350 mile trip. Used 97 liters of fuel at £1.40/liter. Truck is thirsty with a load.

Report later when I get a chance v

In the mean time.

Spent litteraly hours today fighting rust, locked nuts and broken split pins but think I have now got the car ready for its repeat MOT on Wednesday afternoon.
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Been busy with a few things yesterday, after returning from the Gathering.

Got given some dark fabric seats by a MX5nutz-er in Scotland for Nicola's car as the leather ones added to the blandness of the interior and were scuffed etc. They were driven down by Bill in his yellow Escort 1600 Sport.

So then traveled part of the trip back in the rear of the Chevy, and at Buckingham where I collected a pillar drill, they were moved into the Grizz-Pod trailer.

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Cleaned and serviced.....

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£80.00 well spent on the garage.

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Back home I cleaned them up, though they were clean already.

Also needed to re-assemble them.

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Before the show I had managed to buy some spares from Mystery Machine who had brought them along, saving the postage. Thanks Bruce.

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Needs resto.

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I had also bought a stainless "radiator protector" from MX5nutz last week, another completely pointless bit of shiny add on for the car.

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New tonneau cover tested..... Old seats in place.

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Then Post Man Pat arrived and I had a dressed up wife come down the garden, wearing this....

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As I was busy prepping the car for its retest for the MOT, I told her to unpack the item, soon she was back.

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10 minutes was all it took to fit the new seats, which may be a bit of a "Marmite" option for some.....lucky they do not have to live with it.

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One of the failures at MOT test was a snapped drop link.
On inspection, it seemed the other was fractured as well, so I replaced both while I was at it.

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I had also replaced the indicators as both on the care had cracks, one of the replacements was not perfect, but still is better than the original.

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Then the fun started.

I had to split the tie rod ends etc, my tools were not up to it and rust had had a good time over the last 21 years.

Fortunately the local garage had the right tool, making splitting them, to replace the rubber dust caps a lot easier.

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I eventually finished the job at 20.45 last night.

Today after work I fitted a load of bits to the car, including the lather gaiters, and a new gearbox rubber tunnel cover\gaiter.

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Chrome style bar fitted tonight as well.

Tomorrow afternoon is retest time and also two new tyres to get fitted.

Then tax and hopefully Nicola can start using the car.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

Nice Score on the Drill!!!:metal:

Like the Black Seats better...:uhmk:

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Short report.


Took the Truck and Grizz-Pod to the Retro Rides Gathering '13 the past weekend.

Left by 09.00 on Friday morning, got there by 14.00 which included about an hours stpping along the way for coffee and relaxing.

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At the show, Tim my mate who also drives a '74 Chevy camper truck gave me this rev counter for the truck.

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Friday night after BBQ this was the view in the camping field.

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On Saturday Tim was off to do some shopping, on his return he did some maintenance, almost disappearing into the engine bay.

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I left the show before 2pm on Sunday as I had to detour to pick up a pillar drill I had bought a couple of weeks ago in Buckingham.
I had collected some spare seats for Nicola's MX5 which moved into the teardrop once I collected the drill.

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Who said this truck should not work ?

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Assembled, cleaned and serviced. Good value at £80.00

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I will do a more complete write up with pics when I get time.

In the mean time the truck still pleases me.

Thanks for checking in.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

Like the look of the pod with the truck:metal::metal::metal:

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Thanks Don,

Once I get the adapters made for the Teardrop and add smoothies with white band tyres it will look even better.

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:metal:
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MOT results???
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I screwed up.

Did not fit the dust covers correctly so he refused to check it.

Booked in at a local garage to redo on 3rd Sept and also fit new brake discs and pads all the way around.

Gutted but was gping to get the brakes done anyway.
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Not much to report back other than the smiles per mile continue to add up to more than the smiles per cost per liter to run this beast.

Weather forecast is rubbish with intermittent rain and possibly storms, not that it should stop me really, there is always something that needs doing.

Have I mentioned that I really do like (that's better than love) my wife Nicola??

This week they started doing some remodeling at her work, clearing out a lot of old equipment and stuff that is no longer fit for purpose.

They had an 8 meter deep skip that was filled with chairs, furniture and much much more.

At some point she went outside and got a bollocking from the judges of the County Court who they share a car park with for firstly having a large skip on site and secondly....... the local jobless alcoholics had removed all the chairs from the skip and taken them down to the "beach" on the River Medway to have a party..... OOOOPPPss?

Well, in pursuit of the chairs some steel cabinets had been dragged out of the skip and set down next to it..... when the chairs were returned and the skip collected, the steel cabinets had not been returned to the skip.

Nicola saw them, and immediately took a couple of pics she texted to me with just one word : "WANT??" Of course I said yes as I still have some old wooden bedroom wardrobes in the garage to replace with steel cabinets. She then got some of the funeral directors and bearers to drag them back indoors for me to collect later.

Did I mention I liked my wife ??

Went to fetch them the next evening at about 7pm with Mickey riding shotgun to help me load them.....

Today I will unload them and empty one more wardrobe and replace it with a steel cabinet.

Garage is getting there.

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Last night after work I popped over to my mate Martin who had bought a 1965 LWB Fleetside C10 truck about the same time as we got ours. He works in the "Disability motor vehicle conversion business" Interestingly, he and his wife have two Mazda MX5's as well, so we seem to have a fair amount in common. He had managed to get some brand new loose car mats for my truck and Nicola's MX5 from dealers who remove them prior to conversion to hand control etc. So I popped over to look at what his cars looked like etc.

While chatting about various things including the last weekend towing the Grizz-Pod with the truck I mentioned I was going to remove the small but ineffective round mirrors and replace them with the slightly larger (unattractive to me) rectangular ones. He offered to pick me up a pair of heads when he is in the USA later in the year (so I get to keep my stalks and mountings) as they are only $10.00 each. He also showed me the mirrors that had been on his truck when he got it, I suspect they are moderns, ugly but functional.
Later in our discussions it turned out that his glove box was missing its "liner" so I offered him some 1.2mm ally plate to make one, in the end he suggested that if I made him a new liner, he would trade me for the mirrors if I was interested...... Typically I agreed. He also offered to fit Rivnuts to my door once I have done the paint and repairs as part of the deal.

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I will make a mounting plate for the large mirrors, which has a 4 hole mounting plate that will fit the standard 3 screw/nut fitting, and with the Rivnuts in place I will be able to remove the standard mirror when I want to to the Teardrop long distance. The Rivnuts will just mean that I can remove the mirrors without losing the thread in the door.

Martin had these mirrors on his truck when he bought them..... Soon to be mine.

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This weekend I want to make two if these smoker cookers from old gas bottles.

My mate Woodsie works in demolition and a lot of the stuff they remove from sites have to go into skips and be "recycled" (read: exported to China and turned into cars)so when I showed him the pics I took at a car show a while ago, he was game for me making us each one as well. Fair trade.
He is off to fetch a new used motorbike for his wife this morning, but my drop in later to drop of the bottles he rescued.

This is what I will be aiming at.

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This was just after the smoker/cooker was loaded.


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Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

Now I'm HUNGRY!!!!:haha:

Seriously, the mirrors on your friend's truck look like the stock ones on my 90 Silverado... not exactly but close
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Nice score on the cabinets...:metal:

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Cabinets are good and my wife fortunately "gets it"!
I have thought that maybe one day when I have replaced all my wooden cabinets (one more to go) and if I feel brave, I will empty them all, take them outside and prep n paint the lot in one colour but it would have to be a rather special day.......
In the mean time I have swopped a roller door cabinet that was up at the house for refuse/recycling and BBQ fire lighters pesticides etc for the large one on the truck and replaced a wooden/chipboard unit in the garage. The narrow one has found a spot too.
Weather was not conducive to cutting and welding with driving rain yesterday so no smoker build.

No idea what the mirrors are off, but they are large and adjust on multiple levels. Once painted to match with black mount/arms and red bodies, they should look at home on the truck when towing.
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Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

Ryan I had those mirrors on a 77 Ferd not that that's a bad thing..Vernski:lol:

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Well, luck does favour the brave.... or am I missing something here?

Popped around to Mickey's this morning for a chat and he was cleaning up a huge pot and reviving the plant inside it, from a job he did yesterday.
His sons work rebuilding, decorating and gutting office space.
Yesterday they had to take down a load of offices, and one of the casualties ended up being a load of White Oak skirting boards.
They are 90mm wide and I am not sure how thick...... Hope you are getting my drift here.

Anyway, a load had been claimed by one of the guys on the job, buut there were still some in the back of his van he mentioned, if I was interested in them before he went to the skip.

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So I cleared the lot out and brought them home in the hope I could salvage some bits for the garden furniture we have, that has seen a lot of seasons outside and are now starting to show their age.

I previously rebuilt a garden bench using offcuts of White Oak as well, which is still in use.

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Once I had sorted the pile out, this is what I was left with.....

The pile to the right is all under 1.8 meters long, so only good for rebuilding the furniture.

The pile to the left though, has about 19 strips, and at 90mm wide, I need 18 strips to remake the floor of the truck which is currently plywood.


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After sorting it out, stashed under the bike trailer for now.
The cleaning up of the wood to get all the glue etc off it will take some time.
Unfortunately the side I need to use is the side with the glue, the other side it grooved.


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Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

To use the futbol venacular... SCOOOORRRE!!!
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Saw a smoker cooker on a VW Caddy recently and thought the Redneck Express could do with one. Always useful to have a portable BBQ, but if you could use it as a smoker, then even better.

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My mate Woodsie who is in demolition, saved us a couple of knackered gas bottles from the steel skip.

The valves were already missing.

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As an added precaution I filled them with water before starting to cut them to prevent any ignition.

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Then carried them to the garage, found some vintage heavy duty steel hinges, and used a flap wheel to grind back the paint to prep the area where the hinges were to be welded.

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After which I used masking tape to lay a line for cutting the bottles.

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Did the preliminary cuts, allowing the water to drain out to cut level.

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Used my trusty magnets my mate Luke gave me to hold the hinges in place and tacked the corners into position.

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After which I welded the hinges down completely followed by laying the bottles down and cutting almost all the way around with a 2mm cutting disc.

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Next up I need to go buy some clip latches or decide if I may want to use a pair of nuts above and below the cut, to create a lock to keep the lid closed once I have completed the interior and also the chimney that still needs making.

Part two to follow soon.

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Rockin!
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Just in from the garage.

Tonight it was me, the cordless drill, some pressure and then the pedal covers were fitted.

After which the new floor mats Nicola had sneakily ordered for the car went in.

The black seats and mats have now come together for me.

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New leather gaiters on gear stick and hand brake also add to the picture.

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Last item I need to fit will be the fly screen behind the seats.

In the mean time I will keep looking for a stupidly cheap hard top and a Wooden Nardi wheel to restore......

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:eek::eek::eek:

You put the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car!
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:haha:

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Not much done today, but still a result that had me chuckling, as I did something new again, making it up as I went.

Which is something I always like to do.

My mate Martin who is doing up a 1965 C10 needed a glove box inner, as his original had long since rotted away, being made from paper mache, or something similar.

I had volunteered to make him a new one from ally plate or thin sheet metal in exchange for the side mirrors he had removed from his truck a few months ago.

Started by rummaging around the garage till I found a good base to work with. The back of an old steel filing cabinet (I think that's what it was) that was probably around 1mm thick.

Next up, empty out my glove box to see what I am working with.

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Removed it by unscrewing 5 screws.

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Laid out the steel plate, carefully copied all the reference points on the made glove box, then connected the dots with a red marker and also shaded in the areas that needed cutting away.

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One Angle grinder, a 2mm blade and three minutes later we have this, still needed working back with a hand file to smooth off the edges.

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At this point I went up to the house to make a coffee, and then walked back to behind the garage where we grow our vegetables, and where I planted a Conference pear and Star King apple tree two years ago.

Last year each tree presented me with two fruits, this year the pear has retained about 15 pears and the apple tree has about 25 apples which range in size from what you see in my hand, to some a bit bigger still. These apples are pleasantly sweet from the smallest to the largest, which pleases me immensely. So I ate a few apples, feeling very smug, then came back in to carry on with the box.

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Back in the garage the next session of rummaging started, to find the right bits of wood to use to bend the plate to shape.

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Once all the sides were folded, it stayed in shape without any encouragement. I WAS SURPRISED.

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I then quickly clamped, and tack welded the tabs rather than rivet them as mine has been done.

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Ground back, the last job was to give it a coat of primer, mostly as rust preventative. Martin can paint the outside if he wants. I know he wants to carpet the inside with thin automotive carpet.

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I then hoped onto the bike and rode the 15 miles to Martins to deliver and collect......

Got there, and he had removed the heavy agricultural bumper from the truck and had just finished welding in a new rear roll pan, which looks great.

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After a chat and him sparaying some red oxide primer over the new roll pan, we lifted and refitted the tailgate, which I have to say fits nicely. Still needs some fine tuning.

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Last thing once we had stood back, enjoyed it, and gotten the approval of his wife, Amanda, was for me to grab my well earned mirrors and come home, as I still had some jobs to do at home as well.

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And that is where today with the truck ended.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

I seem to have missed out on an update a few weeks ago....

Came home from work and there were two parcels, one with some plates for the collection.

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And a second one from Markeb01.

He had noted a while back that my front bumper had holes covered by skull nuts. And had then sent me a PM asking about the holes, offering me the fog lights off his truck to cover the holes....... Would I be interested? Hell, Yeahhhh!! So I replied that I most certainly would be interested if he let me pay the postage.
In the end Mark refused the postage, but we agreed that I would send him something special from my collection in return, which went out last week, it is a surprise, so I hope he likes it.

Mark had made up a complete fire retardent wiring harness for me, with toggle switch, relay and instructions. In the same parcel there were replacement wiper arms for the truck and and some of his old number plates. And lastly, and interior light cover as these often do not survive.

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Look at the quality and condition.

These babies will only get fitted once the truck is repainted.

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Thanks Mark.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

Nice Work on the Glove Box Inner and Nice Score on the Mirrors and other Plates and Parts too!:metal:

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

That glove box turned out great! A lot of prep and work to accomplish something most people wouldn't think of. Certainly will be more durable than the factory version.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

Just spent a couple of hours scrubbing roof, sealing it with Auto Glym roof stuff.
Then washed the car and dried it, as roof stuff is diabolical on paint and glass.
Got to give it 24 hrs to dry propperly now.
Still need to dismantle drivers door to figure why window went doen and now refuses to return, I suspect a micro switch.
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Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

Thanks Don, even I was pleased with the outcome.

Regarding the parts, I am always humbled by peoples generosity.

I am sorry I never copied the template as it can be folded from one piece and is a direct fit.
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Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside BILLYBOB
 

That is pretty cool glovebox you made!
I almost did that very same thing, but while making an order through Brothers parts, I added a repop to the list and never got around to fabbing up one of my own.

Nicely done !! :thumbs: