Red Baron
 

ok its not red yet, but it will be:) I travel with my job and found this girl about 1 1/2 hours from my house. I squabbled back and too with the owner for almost 2 months. I finally made a cash offer of 1500.00 and he called me about 4 days later and said yes . I Pulled it home on a trailer, adjusted the carb, and been riding it ever since.

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Looks like a solid start!

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Got the bed off. Found a guy on craiglist looking for a late model bed and he traded me plus 50.00 for gas.

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Hell of a score man, cant believe your luck.

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Now that is what i call a trade, good job on that!

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Nice bed.. good swap.. looking forward to the "red"

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I will be posting some pictures the next few days of stuff already done. I bought the truck in november.

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Here are some pictures of my temp gas tank while i was waiting for new one to arrive. The previos owner had relocated the tank and had this tank in the back bed. Also working on the frame.

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here is the new tank mounted

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Wow... awesome trade on the bed (that doesn't happen everyday)!

Nice progress!

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Yeah I was lucky. The guy said he was making a custom and did not care about being original. The bed is solid and straight, but the bed floor does have some bad spots.

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For everyone's enjoyment this is a picture of what the gentleman that traded me did with my old bed.

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Here is the frame finished. I got a before and after picture with the tank mounted now.

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Let's just say you came out ahead of the PO of that bed... :D

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Got the bumper mounted today. New bumper brackets

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My buddy bsm78 on the board put my bed on his truck this morning to take it to the body shop. I have to modify the rail above my blazer tank before I can set it on mine.The red baron is in my shop in the background:)

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we might not be buddys anymore. i have become attached to the bed. i have a nice short step that you can have.

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To each his own, but in my opinion, YUCK!:barf:

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I agree 100% , but I am glad he is happy and I am with our new beds:)

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I was thinking the same thing. That was an awesome score on that bed. Is it in as good of shape as it looks?

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Bed is solid as hell all the way around. Has a new tailgate, but he left it in rain and it got surface rust. Problem area as most is the bed floor. Not sure what I am going to do yet.

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One of my main concerns on my truck is the roof next to the front drip rail. It was packed with filler when I got it and looked like it was not treated for rust. I am going to work on that soon. Bought me a new roof skin in Moultrie this weekend. Pics below of the skin and drip rail damage. Once I cut my old roof off I am going to clean everything up and treat it properly before the new roof goes on.

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Also picked this up in Moultrie and got a free t shirt. The guy that does them you can find at http://hotrodpencil.com/ very neat work.

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Got the bed on today. Have to adjust bumper and get lights working tomorrow.

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That looks way better than the stepside bed....