[Pick121]

No progress to report except I scored a pair of awesome front bumper hooks. Saw a heavy hauler (1962 C60 asking $500!) on FB Marketplace and asked the guy if he would take $100 for the pair of hooks. He agreed and well, he said they would be off the truck when I got there but they were not. Foolishly I did NOT have proper tools or equipment to get them off. Went to local Home Despot (probably the only one on the planet that doesn’t have tool rental) and bought a Milwaukee angle grinder (I had a couple batteries for impact wrench) and some cutoff wheels With a lot of cutting and banging and they were removed from their resting place. I did leave some blood and knuckle skin behind, even with gloves on. Got lucky, the wheel slipped and went through the glove and partway through a nail-lucky not to lose tip of the thumb!
The heat from cutting the bolt heads off made the bolt basically weld into the hole in the hooks so that was the banging part, to get the hooks off the remaining bolts.Oh yea I also got the 2 super cool metal plates that were under the hooks to level them out with the bumper.