A quick flip while my Burb is down

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Hi guys and gals, documenting a build/cleanup:

I needed a driver while my 50 Suburban gets torn down for the winter and the Sids drop, 700r4 and rear axle are installed. I didn't want to rely on my newer rig for DD as it tends to put me to sleep on the 40 mile one way commute. Drivin an older truck/car does alot for me. I never have a radio installed in them as I like to "listen" to the truck/car, I work at a Chevrolet Dealer 40 ish miles away ( depending on the route I take) and usually take the back way through the winding country roads and I love listning to stories from people at lunch hours or after work when I'm running errands about " I used to have a ... or I remember when...." I can never get enough of hearing about the good ole' days.

The need for an early carnival ride driver landed me this off of craigslist on monday. Its a 59' Apache Fleetside and completely original down to the uncut dash with radio delete and washer bag hanging from the inner fender. It had bben sitting under a tree most of its life, I'm the 3rd owner. Flushed the fuel system, knocked the crud off the inner cap/rotor, fresh fuel filter with rubber lines and a new battery i had it running Tuesday night at the guys house. Wednesday (yesterday) at lunch I drove it home from his house. Most everything works except the fresh air cables and the heater blower fan. It has a working dome light and glove box light! I stopped and bought some CLR and ospho last night on the way home from work. After dinner, with a pocket full of quarters, i headed to the car wash loaded with cleaning supplies and several scotchbrite pads. Here is " Patchy" when I got him home:




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After scrubbing, re-scrubbing and then scrubbing some more with my CLR Ospho cocktail, heres what I got. Plans are to drop it onto the stock painted steelies ( gloss black, creme or mint-haven't decided yet) wrapped in wide whites I have from another project, paint the bumpers, grille and headlamp bezels white, re-do the seat and headliner in a tabaco colored distressed leather, line-x the interior floor and steps for easy clean up of muddy winter feet, clean and touch up the dash area and do a complete tune-fluid change before driving the tires off it. I'll post pics as they happen in the next week or two.

This is washed , dried and then CLR applied directly to the paint--errr--rusty patina. I have read several peoples comments and most not working. If you dilute it or dont go through $20 woth of scotchbrite, it wont work. Direct on dry and then Ospho on top (stay away from glass) and this is what happened after 3 hours of scrubbing.




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Going to be a LOW budget build. Swap meet white walls, rattle cans and local parts store deals on tune up stuff. I wil address the issues as they arise and most of the cash will be the drop and the leather seat/line-x floor.