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01-30-2010, 05:05 PM | #1 |
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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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01-30-2010, 05:13 PM | #2 |
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Re: Red Baron
Looks like a solid start!
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01-30-2010, 05:22 PM | #3 |
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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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01-30-2010, 06:31 PM | #4 |
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Hell of a score man, cant believe your luck.
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01-30-2010, 06:42 PM | #5 |
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Now that is what i call a trade, good job on that!
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01-30-2010, 07:11 PM | #6 |
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Nice bed.. good swap.. looking forward to the "red"
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01-30-2010, 07:39 PM | #7 |
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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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01-30-2010, 07:50 PM | #8 |
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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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01-30-2010, 08:29 PM | #9 |
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here is the new tank mounted
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01-30-2010, 11:36 PM | #10 |
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Wow... awesome trade on the bed (that doesn't happen everyday)!
Nice progress!
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01-31-2010, 02:04 AM | #11 |
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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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01-31-2010, 02:12 AM | #13 |
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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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02-02-2010, 06:28 PM | #17 |
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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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03-03-2010, 07:40 PM | #18 |
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That looks like a tractor trailer, salt flat, rig thing? The good thing for all of us is we know are trucks will be show stoppers with that one out there!
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03-23-2010, 09:25 PM | #19 |
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Got the roof skin on today finally. While the old one was off I grinded all the old seam sealer out. I also treated the roof for rust with Ospho and primed it before we put the new skin on. We run out of time so we will do the seam sealer back in place once I have another day off. At least I have a roof again and the rusted one is gone
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03-23-2010, 09:29 PM | #20 |
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Here it is in my shop with the welds cleaned up and primed. Waiting on Seam Sealer.
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Here are a few more pictures from the last few weeks. They pulled my motor and trans as well as all the ac guts in dash. Have a picture from under the cab on lift.
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To each his own....
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Lovin What your doin! Its going to be one sexy truck!
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Working on new bed floor in spare time last 2 weeks. Here are a couple of updates.
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