my '64 c-10 swb project with steel floor from a '70

[chad64chevy]

Originally Posted by dwcardfan

Give us lots of pics of this weekends progress. Looking good!

no real progress made to take pics of this weekend! got but on call for work right after I logged off the other day! sitting at home on call so I didn't try and get into the truck much cause I could I've had to leave at anytime but never got called in to work!! that sucked, I did buy a couple gallons of some single stage ICE BLUE METALLIC paint for the truck and today they came in, hoping to get the truck in primer and some color on it before the end of august! I shouldn't have any 14-16hr. work days til the end of Sept. I was told! that means I get to work on the truck a lil everyday after work got to get the back of the cab straight then i'll be able to get the cab into primer! at least that's the plan, lol!! so anyways here is a pic of the ice blue paint I got!!

[Ta2Don]

Diggin' the color… Nice choice...

[dwcardfan]

Got to have money to fund the addiction. Lol The paint will look sweet on the truck.

[chad64chevy]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Diggin' the color… Nice choice...

Originally Posted by dwcardfan

Got to have money to fund the addiction. Lol The paint will look sweet on the truck.

thanks guys! can't wait til there is some color on the truck other then etching primer, LOL!

a week or so ago I put a request in the classified section for front bumper guards and DPowers had a set of N.O.S guards never mounted still in the original box so I bought them!

[dwcardfan]

Nice score!!!!

[clemdaddy]

those are really nice… hows the painting coming along, sprayed out any color yet? i like that color. looks like its got a lot of metallic in it.

[Ta2Don]

SCORE!!!

[chad64chevy]

Originally Posted by dwcardfan

Nice score!!!!

what color gray did you spray your truck?

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

those are really nice… hows the painting coming along, sprayed out any color yet? i like that color. looks like its got a lot of metallic in it.

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

SCORE!!!

thanks guys! and clem I haven't sprayed any color yet! yes it has metallic a medium I think it called! they had another blue with high metallic but the shade of blue was a lot darker like modges truck

[dwcardfan]

The silver is called argent it is a dodge color. The inner fenders and core are dark shadow gray which is a Ford color.

[CRGRS 66]

Hey Chad, just got caught up on your thread, great progress!

[mjh1965]

What a cool build.

I will read it all when home in England.

Rian (Grizz1963) and I really enjoyed meeting you and chatting to you at Clems this weekend.
Rian is not logged in but also said to say hallo.

A MASSIVE THANK YOU FOR THOSE BUMPER IRONS YOU GAVE ME.

YOU REALLY SAVED MY BUTT.

I hope Rian and I can meet up with you in Tulsa on Thursday as well.

Rian did PM you with our details.

Martin.

[dwcardfan]

Hey Chad I am about ready to see some of that ice blue on that truck. Good to talk to you at Clems.

[chad64chevy]

Originally Posted by dwcardfan

Hey Chad I am about ready to see some of that ice blue on that truck. Good to talk to you at Clems.

Yes Donnie, I'm ready to see some color as well! just to busy with work here lately, so I haven't been on a lot! I literally just got off work logged on here to see that Martin and Rian had left me a message Tuesday that they will be in town Thursday (today)! so they came by an gave me a flag! I was really pleased to have them stop by an chat for just a bit before going back to kieths to eat dinner an before I had to get ready for bed to start my day all over again! Once again thank you Martin and Rian for the flag and for stopping by, one day I will have to make a trip over the pond to see your truck and to hang out some more!!

[McMurphy]

Man it was fantastic meeting you at Clems...it was a crying shame you could not have stayed the whole weekend. Wow what a time it was !!

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by chad64chevy

Yes Donnie, I'm ready to see some color as well! just to busy with work here lately, so I haven't been on a lot! I literally just got off work logged on here to see that Martin and Rian had left me a message Tuesday that they will be in town Thursday (today)! so they came by an gave me a flag! I was really pleased to have them stop by an chat for just a bit before going back to kieths to eat dinner an before I had to get ready for bed to start my day all over again! Once again thank you Martin and Rian for the flag and for stopping by, one day I will have to make a trip over the pond to see your truck and to hang out some more!!

No problem Chad it was great too see your truck . Like me you are tight on space , but you are doing some great work. So glad we got to call in and see you and once again thanks for the front bumper irons . It means so much more when you fit something that's been given to you when you fit it on the truck . Especially when it's come from a friend keep up the good work.if you ever travel over the pond you are always welcome at mine .

[chad64chevy]

well I'm still alive! I just been working way too much, I have got a couple small things done! I've blasted both cowl corners, all bumper brackets, all of the wing vent stuff, e-brake handle stuff, plus the bracket that goes under the truck for the e-brakes! i'll get pics tomorrow of that stuff, I started building my own trailering arms out of 2x3 tubing an 3/16" plate! I got the idea from other forum members! here are the two threads I have put together a lil this and a lil that!
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=214975

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...+trailing+arms

once I buy the two ballistic joints, i'll pics some more pics of them!

[NevEno]

Very cool Chad! I can't wait to see them when you get finished!

[Modges'66]

Very cool Chad!
Lookin Sweet!
Hope that you & the family had a Merry Christmas!

[mjh1965]

Chad some of us are restoring a truck . I think you are making one from scratch is there any parts left you haven't made yourself. I can't wait to see them finished .

[dwcardfan]

Looking good!

[clemdaddy]

those trailing arms look stout and nice job on building them. hope you get some time off during the holidays, you always seem to get a bunch done with just a little time off. keep after it bro...

[Ta2Don]

Ditto on the previous comments...

Keep Rockin' Brother!!!

[chad64chevy]

Originally Posted by NevEno

Very cool Chad! I can't wait to see them when you get finished!

thanks Paul! got to wait another week or two before ordering the ballistic joints

Originally Posted by Modges'66

Very cool Chad!
Lookin Sweet!
Hope that you & the family had a Merry Christmas!

thanks Mike, Christmas was very good for the kids, the looks on there faces made it worth every dime! since I have a really good job now I went all out on them

Originally Posted by mjh1965

Chad some of us are restoring a truck . I think you are making one from scratch is there any parts left you haven't made yourself. I can't wait to see them finished .

lol, sometimes ( most of the time) I think I won't get finished if I keep making things! but I'm thinking I got it apart might as well do it now instead of doing it later

Originally Posted by dwcardfan

Looking good!

thanks Donnie

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

those trailing arms look stout and nice job on building them. hope you get some time off during the holidays, you always seem to get a bunch done with just a little time off. keep after it bro...

thanks Clem, yea I seen those arms made on here before and figured I could make them, since I got 15x12 rims for the back and have future plans of a ls turbo motor! might as well beef up the rear trailering arms a bit now and don't have to do it later

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Ditto on the previous comments...

Keep Rockin' Brother!!!

thanks Don, hoping to see if I can get it to clems this yr. and not end up saying maybe next yr., lol!!

[chad64chevy]

ok so I have been busy with work, family and since my wife is going to have a new baby girl Tuesday the 19th. if her water don't break first, not a lot of truck time having to get the house ready for the new addition!

but I do have some stuff done I wanted to get my tci shifter up of the floor so I'm not leaning forward to shifter! so I made a bracket an took two gussets I made, tig welded them together! I think that it's different an another item I made, not of the shelf bought! I also used a plasma cutter to make some side gussets for my trailing arms an tig welded those up as well! I'm going to pie cut the very ends were the ballistic joints go to have a tampered look an not a boxed look! hope to have that finished this next week an have another update of them finished next weekend!

anyways on to the pics!!
first set of pics is the shifter bracket I made

[chad64chevy]

these pics are the gussets an after tig welding! I'm going to add a 2.5-3" strip of 3/16 to only the top! kind of like what P.O.L have done with there trailing arms! I still need to cut up some metal to make the plates for my rear sway bar to attach to these and also the rear brake cable bracket