48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait

[Advanced Design]

To celebrate some progress, I took my first ever selfie....

[oldman3]

Doug, brackets look good, nice looking saw. Good progress....Jim

[sir-gto]

Love the selfie!! Nice!!

[99 to Life]

awwwwsuuuummmm, stellar work. man that lift must make life alot easier!!!!!

[Advanced Design]

Thanks Jim! First time I used that saw on a project.

Sir-GTO...Thanks for checking in. Looking forward to the LS swap on your 65 wagon!

99..thanks man! The lift really makes it easier to do decent work.

[slammed57]

comin out great ...i'am puttin this on my"follow build" page...lol

[reaper71]

Looking really good Doug,very neat..

[Advanced Design]

Thanks Slammed57 and Mark!

The lids for the 99r46 boxes are done thanks to LJ Customs and Blasting. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lj-cu...44230735633756

Really appreciated kicking around the ideas guys.

[T-P Auto]

AD;

Them covers look great.

T-P Auto
Tim

[oldman3]

Nice...Jim

[Hart_Rod]

Great work Doug.

[lower50's]

At least you have a plasma!! Nice looking motor and trans mounts.

[Number98]

Coming along nicely, I am really starting to like this old girl....

[Sim6]

Looks awesome AD! Great work and nice shop. Looks like another project or two in there.

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by T-P Auto

AD;

Them covers look great.

T-P Auto
Tim

Thanks Tim! Luke did a nice job on them.

Originally Posted by oldman3

Nice...Jim

Appreciate that Jim!

Originally Posted by Hart_Rod

Great work Doug.

Thanks Hart_Rod, I am really enjoying your builds.

Originally Posted by lower50's

At least you have a plasma!! Nice looking motor and trans mounts.

Thanks lower50's...it was a wedding anniversary present from a few years ago. Wife got a bracelet. The plasma is way more useful!

Originally Posted by Number98

Coming along nicely, I am really starting to like this old girl....

Thank you 98...really enjoying your Burb build. Will likely be copying what you are doing when we get a 67 - 72 Burb. Have the wants!

Originally Posted by Sim6

Looks awesome AD! Great work and nice shop. Looks like another project or two in there.

Thanks Sim6, we've been making improvements to the place since we bought it 18 years ago. Yeah, I have automotive attention deficit disorder. The 35 Chevy Master coupe is to the "build it up before blowing apart for paint stage"...and I started in on the Burb. If you are interested, here is a short build thread on the metal work we've done to the 35.
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/jour...ge=1&reverse=1

Thanks for the observations, encouragement and suggestions guys. That and knowing I am showing what I am doing to everyone here is helping me to do better work.

I like it so well on this forum I bought a hat!

[65sub]

I really like your storage box idea. I might try that on my sub.

[Sim6]

Great work on your others. Do you have a build thread for the truck in your avatar photo?

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by 65sub

I really like your storage box idea. I might try that on my sub.

Thanks 65sub. Gotta give credit to 99 to life and ratty46 for the idea that came up as we were discussing what to do with the cut out areas above the wheel tubs.

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by Sim6

Great work on your others. Do you have a build thread for the truck in your avatar photo?

Thanks Sim6, unfortunatley I don't. That was a fun build where a bunch of my buddies came in over a long week end and we put the truck on bags, four link rear, build engine and trans mounts, metal finished the fenders and trial assembled it in a week end. We started with a pile of parts shown and had something that looked like a truck a few days later. It was fun!

Then wife and I finished up some things, had a friend do some paint and plumbing work then we finish assembled.

The truck cab was the most solid I've ever seen. It needed zero rust repair.

[reaper71]

Pretty damn cool Doug!

[CHIZZLER]

love that pickup.

[JJorgensen52]

I'm in on this one! I've was hoping to be where you're at about three weeks ago

[oldman3]

Doug, great story on the pickup, and great friends to help out. A sweet looking ride, hope to see it one day...Jim

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by oldman3

Doug, great story on the pickup, and great friends to help out. A sweet looking ride, hope to see it one day...Jim

Thanks all for the comments on the truck! Sad part is we sold it to buy a new DD for the wife here a few years ago. We don't borrow and needed more cash...so....of course wish we would have kept it.

Good news is it went to a higher end hot rod shop who needed it for a customer build. He wanted a truck like his Dad had back in the day. Fairly high dollar build and many of my parts were still installed, so that was a nice feeling.

[oldman3]

Doug, sorry to hear you had to sell, but another good story about the redo nice looking ride...Jim