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Time for the front clip parts to turn colors.

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Parts are red!

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Painted the dash top, and installed the windshield.

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Blasted, and painted the heat/defrost selector box.

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Lookin good Turp! Is that a 69 vette I see languishing on the lift back there? Im doing a full resto mod on one right now.

Evan Q.

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Installed manifolds and misc. engine stuff.

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Installed the a/c ducts, and ball assemblies.

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Looks great. Isn't the re-assembly of all this the longest hardest part of the job? Every piece needs to be cleaned/blasted and painted and maybe repaired. Even the new parts are not always ready to bolt on. It took me a weekend to tear my truck down and there are still things I need to do to call it finished.

Sorry for the loss of your dog. Thats the second time in the past 30 minutes I've had to send condolences out. A friend of mine lost his 25 yr old nephew to cancer.

I was in Rapid City, or rather passing through, twice in the past 10 days and wanted to stop in, but it was a long trip (1100 miles each way) and the family just wanted to keep on trucking. My wife wants to do Sturgis during the bike rally some day and we don't even own a bike, so maybe I'll drive my C-10 or Jimmy out instead, and take the time to visit your shop. There was plenty to see just on the freeway yesterday.

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Hey Turp. Slick looking paint. Great progress.. Great photo's. ..Sorry about your Friend.

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fw190... close! It's a 68. It is a L-79 4spd, car. Original color is burnt orange. I can't remember the actual name. Kind of an ugly color, but rare I guess. It's getting a correct frame off resto.
hgs...too bad you couldn't have stopped. My shop is about 2 minutes west and north, from the Flying J truckstop, that you drove past! I know how trips go, never enough time. Where did you go?
Thanks again guys.

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We went to SE Idaho to visit my inlaws. St. Anthony and Idaho Falls area. We went through the NE Yellowstone entrance via Cody and Cooke City on the way west. Then on the way back east we went through Jackson Hole, then Casper and north to Gillette, which is kind of a halfway point. We have been going back and forth through the dakotas for 25 years now because my wife is from out there and I'm from MN. I think I've driven nearly all possible routes between the 2 just for a change of scenery or to find a faster way. There is no easy route across northern Wyoming.

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Looks good buddy! Sorry about the pup. It's amazing how we get attached to these critters
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Thanks!

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Soooo.....,this thing back on the farm yet?

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Hey Tony, did you get my message on facebook?
The Blazer is back at the farm. I think he's been using it to check fences, and to round up cattle!

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Nossir, stupid facecrack.

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Found the massage, neatly hidden in "other".
Yes; I'm happy now, as are you I'm sure.

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Wow! I've been really busy, and all of the sudden, a week turns into a month! Anyway...here are some more pics.

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More engine pics.

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More engine.

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Engine compartment.

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More engine.

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Misc. engine.

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And some more.

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More engine.

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Some dash shots.

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More engine compartment.

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More engine. I got the fenders and hood sprayed.

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Sighhhh....,if only you could get paid for the time it takes to post all these pictures; with the filing and the placing and the resizing and the image browsing and the pain in my flavin!! ouyoyoy!

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Amazing details to this restoration. Couple things I noticed that were different from what I have seen before though. First, I though the horn was normally mounted more inboard by the radiator, just below where the ground wire is bolted on. Second, I don't think I've ever seen that oil fill tube before on these trucks. The the HEI dizzy is a good upgrade, but kind of surprised you didn't go with an original style distributor with the electronic conversion to keep the OEM look. These pics are pretty much a good guide for how it should be put together though for a restoration. Outstanding job.

Where did you get that braided wire covering for the engine temp sensor? And the GM hoses? I need to get black hoses for my heater, never liked the way the red ones look. I liked the way you wrapped up the wires to the ends of the wire channel across the rad support. Nice details man.

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Tony...it usually takes me between 1 1/2-2 hours to post pics. That is why it is sometimes hard to find the time.
Hgs...on a dual horn truck, the second horn goes where the one pictured is. In my travels I have found that the base model trucks, only had one horn, and the CST trucks got the dual horns. I have since moved the horn over to the single horn spot. The HEI had been swapped sometime in the past. We discussed going to a point dist. with a pertronix, but decided to just run the HEI, since they work so nice, and it is hard to notice behind the air cleaner. We figured most people wouldn't catch it anyway. I think everybody has the GM heater hose. I will have to go through my receipts to see where I got the wire loom cover. Thanks for looking guys!

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Looks great! Might want to set up an offsite acct to load the pictures to then simply link here....will make things a lot faster....I'm having comp as well as camera issues right now so using my phone for all of it...but normally downloading pictures online you can type up what you want to say as they download then insert the link to the picture between the typing....saves a bunch of time!
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The engine harness I bought for my Blazer had that same covering on temp/starter/distributor wiring already, can't recall who made it though.

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All I gotta say is WOW, there is a ton of great quality work here. You do some great fab work man! You took a rust bucket and now it looks like it is from the 70s brand new!

Awesome! I at least want to get my frame looking like yours.

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This harness came with the ends tied, and the temp wire covered in cloth. I did buy a piece of the cloth covering for the a/c wire. The oil fill tube is original.
I have always wondered how some people can post comments under each pic. I'll have to investigate the off-site photo posting thing.
Here are a few pics of the hood and some misc. pieces.

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More misc. pics of painted stuff.
I guess to save time, and get to end of the thread, I could just post a handfull of build pics, and skip all the minute details. LOL!

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Having a little fun with Joel. I think GM got it wrong when they used sandlewood for the dash color, on the parchment interiors. Tried to talk him in to black. I was wasting my breath!

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Instrument cluster restored and installed.

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Dash knobs, a/c vent, and steering column installed.

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Looking good!