What did you do with your truck today, take 2

[ChuckDriver]

Nice work Roger!

[chincha805]

Just looked at it.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by roger55

Thanks guys!

Hi Dan.
I does not have much orange peel. I did get a little around the rear window on the back of the cab but the rest has very little. I think the Iwata gun and the extra reducing helped me get it pretty darn smooth for single stage. I used a slow reducer too and I think that helps some.
I did get a few dust nibs. I'm not intending on doing much color sanding. At most I'll just knock off the dust nibs with 1500 and run the polisher over it.

That's excellent if it's that good. MORE congrats. Can't wait to see it come together!

[oldman3]

Took off to Mid-American Nats this morning and got back home around 8:00 pm tonight 268 miles round trip, will go back tomorrow and post some pics...Jim

[yoshi]

Washed & clayed then out for a little ride

[yoshi]

Another angle

[roger55]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

That's excellent if it's that good. MORE congrats. Can't wait to see it come together!

Thanks Dan.

I took a couple of close-ups today. You can see a little peel in there but there just isn't much.

[la hi]

57 swb. I installed my a/c. I put the under dash unit against the back cab wall(it did not look good and stuck out to far under the dash), between the bucket seats. I would rather have it blow cold air on me, however it cools the cab. I prefer to keep the dash open and not try to stuff the a/c under the dash is why I went with the under dash unit.

[Softpatch]

took some pictures of work done last week for DMV documentation
But after see the "Green truck pictures.....That is very nice work.!
I'm feeling way out of my league.

Maybe I should start a thread ... what hack job did you do to your truck today
........I'll start patches That what I'm calling my truck "Patches"
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[Dan in Pasadena]

Softpatch,

Looks like you've got your work cut it for you - no pun intended. Roger's green truck IS freaking nice but yours can look just as good. Here on this board you'll get lots of encouragement and good advice. Some of the best I got from Bam(Kabwe) telling me to just keep working at it. Your skills will get better bit by bit, and incredibly mine have. I'm a total hack compared to Roger and Bam and a lot of other guys here but my work is satisfying me. My truck has new metal where it needed new metal and I'm not covering up crap with filler so I suppose that's all that really matters.

Start that "Patches" thread, we'll be looking for it!

[ChuckDriver]

Got some work done on the new frame. Had some new rails bent up to go along with the PorterBuilt Fab front and rear coil-over suspension kits!

[Stepside Jim]

ChuckDriver....ok, so I'm just surfing around and I end up finding the last batch of pics you posted, I haven't paid attention to the title of the site I'm on, but I swear it's got to be something to do with NASA.

Just my weird way of saying "wow" without actually saying it.

WOW, Jim

[roger55]

Got to be the most awesome TF frame I've ever seen.
Nice job!!!!

[oldman3]

Looking good JJ...Jim

[ChuckDriver]

Jim, if you use NASA to describe my build, then I must say you're building a colony on Mars!!

Thanks guys!

[Dan in Pasadena]

JJ,
What he's saying is your build is, "out of this world!" Lol

By the way, since I've never ever asked you before what WERE your color plans for your truck when it was going to be a stepside and what have they changed to (if they have) now that it will be a Cameo.......or whatever Jimmy "Cameo's" we're called?

[Stepside Jim]

Originally Posted by ChuckDriver

Jim, if you use NASA to describe my build, then I must say you're building a colony on Mars!!

Thanks guys!

I'm gonna raise the bar again....

I rarely post on this thread except for monumental achievements. Yesterday was time for bed installation. I have a friend, Gary, who has been wanting to participate on my truck build, I am so glad he came over, we got the bed on the truck with no issues.

During my build I knew I wanted two tone, I've seen many different ways to split the colors. I chose to follow the main body line but as we all know, the rear fenders drop this body line some 3 or 4 inches. Up til the last day I finally decided how I was going to blend the pin stripes together. Pictures tell the story.


That's the outcome, I don't like to clutter this thread, I'll post the rest of the pics on my build thread listed below. Jim

[yoshi]

I had a chat with some bloke about my truck

[Softpatch]

jimmy Shine.?
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What he say.?

[ChuckDriver]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

JJ,
What he's saying is your build is, "out of this world!" Lol

By the way, since I've never ever asked you before what WERE your color plans for your truck when it was going to be a stepside and what have they changed to (if they have) now that it will be a Cameo.......or whatever Jimmy "Cameo's" we're called?

Thanks Dan, I'm thinking of some shade of blue, eventually!

[57chevyman]

got most of the bed on the truck and the wood boards. got the taillights on too . gonna paint the bed with rustoleum for now, same like the front panel

[57chevyman]

tailgate

[yoshi]

Putting the wood in

[Fleet58]

Hows the quality on that panel?

[Fleet58]

Mustang tank, What year?