My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!

[Modges'66]

Well, I have started fitting-up the front sheet-metal in an effort to start making this thing look more like a truck!
Let me tell you, workin' with painted panels is slow-going!!!
Attempting to get the inner fenders all set-up without messing-up the finish was a real challenge. I must have had them on & off 5 times before satisfied! Mainly because the radiator that I had originally mocked it up with wasn't the same as I ended up using, and I needed to cut holes for the power-steering hoses.....Add to that, the weather-strips at the firewall. What a pain!
Some of the pics aren't that great, I took them with my phone...



Check-out the weather-strips!





I also started working on the grill!!!
I needed to recover all of the headlamp buckets/adjusters from the original grill and build a new grill assembly.
I sand-blasted the daylights out of them, painted them with Imron, & reassembled them using Stainless pop-rivets.



The new grill in place, and lookin pretty tight!!
Starting to look more like a truck!!!!


I am pretty Amped-up right now!!!