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When there's a heatwave in my area, for some reason my parts are ready for paint and body work...ugh. Finished my little dash extension for the A/C vents and a couple of other items to be named later...
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Your truck is really nice and I very much enjoyed the read. Sub'd and following along...
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Thanks! I mocked up my old Chevrolet Deluxe tissue dispenser...I had thought of selling it over the years, but I think I'll keep it for the truck...
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That is really cool, I love putting all sorts of era correct accessories in the interior of my truck
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Thank you! I got some stuff back from coating and started to mock tank and bottle placements. Some calculation suggested I had a couple of gallons of air volume for the air suspension, so I need to locate the 3 gal. tank to the converted 15 lb. nitrous bottle to an air tank:
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I finally got my steering column and linkage installed last night...
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Sweet build
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Very cool...
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Thanks, guys! I just realized this photo didn't upload that shows the steering link...
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Machined the selector arm and beer tap handle base for a new shifter handle - North Coast Brewing Co. Puck the Beer porcelain beer tap handle...
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Beautiful build...
The pontiac mill is truly sweet. |
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Thanks! I had to shift focus on my '63 Tempest convertible project since I got the Pontiac Trophy 4 (half a 389) 195 ci machining done, a cam from Bullet Racing delivered, and some goodies from Crower.
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The storms and heavy rain have me working on the C10 this weekend. I was able to set the wing window and door glass and get the Nu Relics power unit installed and tested.
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It's been a few years since I had the inner door panel installed...
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Good looking door
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Finally got around to finishing up the MAR-K hidden tailgate latches and stainless links:
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Passenger side glass set after struggling for a couple of hours with the vent assembly.
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Hey, I have a quick question for you.
I'm building a new chassis for my prostreet and I'm wondering if you had ever thought of, or tried using A body motor perch brackets and mounts to set a pontiac into a C10. Any thoughts? |
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That would offer more flexibility and parts availability. If I were building a new chassis, I would probably go that route if I didn't mount the engine on plates.
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I'm trying to get the motor as low and as far back as possible.
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Yep, that's what I was referring to about parts availability. A lot of times people change up or do custom mounts not realizing that it sometimes eliminates the use of readily available production headers/exhaust, steering parts, etc.
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Finally got around to making the initial trim and fitment of the firewall pad and carpet. Need to do a little more persuading with the heat gun over a couple of floor contours, but the Auto Custom Carpet is molded nicely.
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Halfway through with the bedwood treatment...urethane down and cured on the bottom side over red mahogany stain. Top side urethane is next.
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Very nice! You dont waste any space do you
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I'm a little surprised that you didn't go with a steel bed floor out of a 67-72...
Nearly 100% bolt in, lighter and longer lasting.... But I'm guessing you won't be tossing any virgin, grease covered tunnel port heads back there... |
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Thanks! Here are the planks laid out after the last coat of urethane. I'll spend this coming weekend using a buffer and finishing it off with some synthetic wax sealer.
All of the used steel bed floors in my area were so beat up, plus I like the contrast of the wood bed. I've finished a few when I was younger...I just don't remember it requiring so much Tylenol. ;) I'm working on a sliding luggage rack for the bed with similarly stained and finished wood slats to make up for the space my nitrous and air suspension bottles will occupy. |
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The Mar-K stainless strips are trimmed and laid out. I'll tighten everything down today, and get this bed ready to mount back on the chassis soon.
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Going to the Pontiac heaven event?
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Well, that's been a while..
Sorry to hear that, I was hoping to see you and your truck in person. A kind of "shake a hand, make a friend" thing... |
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I do have good friends and customers in AZ, and still travel out there from time to time to visit and help with their projects. Not sure if I would drive my truck all the way out there, but it would be great to catch up with you when I'm out that way.
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Since none of the modern production wheels floated my boat, I un-retired some Ansen Sprints (15x7 fronts and 15x10 vintage rears) hanging in my shop office for the Poncho C10 project. I did some restoration work (ground out the dings and gouges, polished, then media blasted the centers). My friend runs a coating shop and had the centers coated in Titanium. Here's a sneak peek just out of the oven.
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I like the look of the titanium along with the polished aluminum.
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Nice i like em!!
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Very good choice on the wheels!
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Thanks! I got the tires mounted today...the rears are the older M/T ET Street Radials 315/60R15 (29.9x12.5x15)
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Finally got to work on my own project last weekend and got the battery box mounted and assembled and soldered the 1/0 cables. Let the wiring madness begin.
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Finally getting some pinstriping done on the PonchoC10 before the rest of the sheetmetal gets mounted back on the chassis. Brian Stoner of Stoner Striping working his magic on the back of the cab and hood...
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