Restoring Rusty

[gmcpainting]

It has been a long year with rusty down at da body shop since the end of March. Sorry, everyone for not keeping up with this thread, there has not been much to update… until now that ol Rusty is finally painted. I will be posting pics I have taken on my iPhone and analog point and shoot cameras.

[gmcpainting]

[69Tom]

Great color!

[gmcpainting]

Rusty is out of the body shop. I just need to adjust the Eddie Motorsport hood hinges I got and a new windshield. Pretty happy with how it turned out

[Rickysnickers]

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[maxx442a1]

Lookin' good!

[gmcpainting]

New windshield in, I bought some wheels and tires they should come in this week. I’d like to put a QA1 coil over suspension but it is pretty expensive so I’m going to save up for that. Still haven’t adjusted the hinges but I’m happy with the paint job.

[gmcpainting]

New American Racing 18” wheels for Rusty

[Rickysnickers]

Nice

[cadillac_al]

I checked out this thread because it was a 74 med olive truck. That has been my new favorite color for the past 10 years. I used to hate it lol. Your new paint doesn't look like the 74 color though. It looks more like the 76 Lime green color. It's still a sharp truck though.

[doowopper]

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[gmcpainting]

Hi everyone hope everyone is well. I haven’t kept up with this thread because I’ve been busy with work, not much has been done to ol Rusty since paint and wheels back in January, and quite frankly I’m just not as cool and witty or knowledgeable as my pal Gregski. I will try to do my best and update you guys more often. I’ve been looking into buying an under the dash old time air ac system cause I wanna keep the dash trim so I will keep you guys posted. Here’s a pic I took last month

[Gregski]

seeing this made me so happy, WOW !!! great job

[Factory Guy]

Originally Posted by Gregski

one of the first things that had to go was the ugly heavy duty (nothing wrong with) rear bumper. think of this, this way, Rusty was a long time hard working race winning thoroughbred, who has now earned the right to retire on the green pastures and enjoy the easy life (hardest gig he'll ever have is fetching a Christmas tree for us once a year, hee hee)

Umm yeah, I pretty much broke all four big bolts holding on that heavy beast to get it off, I didn't know I had it in me, that type of super human strength (what's that you can clearly see the cheater bar in the pictures, nah)

Your truck is the first one I have seen, besides mine that has that bumper... I guess since your truck and mine were sold in California maybe a local bumper supplier made them??

Mine has a tag stating it is rated to pull 15,000 pounds, yours?

[Shark_13]

Beautiful truck. The wheels really set it off nicely