A little body shop progress
 

Here are a couple pics of the progress at the body shop. I'm supposed to stop by tonight and the body guy said a lot of work would be done on the cab by then. I'll cross my fingers.

Anyway, the passenger fender had a dent in the upper front corner and both fenders had some old repairs. I removed most of the filler and he has smoothed the fenders out nicely.

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Looking good!!! You will be caught up to me before you know it.

I can only dream about being that far along!

lookin good!! Betcha can't wait to see some paint on that thing eh :D

Where are your C/20 badges going? You're not deleting them are you?:confused:

I see you left the holes for the "454" badges though:D

Nope, the badges will go back, he just hasn't cleaned the holes out yet. And no, I'm not using 454 badges, those are the holes for the 4 Wheel Drive emblems. The 454 is gonna be incognito.

very nice, are you going to make your deadline? I'd like to see it done.

Your body
 

Looks as though you are about ready for primer... coming a long fine.

The body guy says he will stick to the schedule, but I will be amazed if he can have it done as scheduled - just seems to be a lot that he has to still do.

I think you need to come to Ohio and get this Blazer I have so you can run disk brakes on yours....lol

:D I'm jealous. I don't know when I'll be able to get started on my body, I just hope sometime this year. :confused:

Well, a little more progress, but a loooonnnnnnggggg way to go at this rate.

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Front clip is torn apart now too.

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Lookin good. What kind of primer are they using. Regular or high production?

I sure hope you took a lot of pics and labeled everything before you took it apart...lol. I can't tell you how many times I forget how something goes back together. Luckily I have a couple of other K20s to look at.

Looking good so far! It will be much more fun going back together when that paint is done.

I love your body...
 

Good to see the body after seeing the fenders. Did you pug the hole for the gas tank filler ....

If so, wher ya puttin the tank ?

Gonna be nice when it is done , looking good . jyd :bowtie:

Isn't bare metal pretty? :D :bowtie:

Gas tank will be here

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Used one of ebfabman's filler pieces for the gas tank hole.

They said they would be using an etch primer - not sure if that answers your question.

Clean metal is a beautiful thing.

Dean - I wish I did a better job on labeling stuff as I have a bad case of CRS!

looking good! hey just remember if it takes them a little longer, then oh well, it's butter that they take alittle more time then to rush it and have it turn out bad and look like crap!

That is definitely true - and believe me, this project has taught me patience.

Sorry if this has been covered in another post, but what color is it going to be?

John

The color will be a very light metallic silver.

Yesterday there was some great progress. Body guy has the passenger door hardware removed, and he has done a lot of work on the back of the cab. Being a farm truck, there were lots of problems on the back of the cab to clean up. Using a mig welder, the body guy used a stud puller to remove the dents.

He has the fenders in primer now and has some more block sanding to do to them.

Still a lot to get done, but progressing very well this week!

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cool, i want to paint a truck silver one of these days. I think it will look nice

is that patchy looking stuff on the back of the cab , a skim coat? Starting to look nice and clean :D