1957 Chevy truck re-rebuild

[Stepside Jim]

It's been nearly a year ago that I bought the new bed sides, front panel and tail gate, finally got them prepped and primed.

I haven't seen many close up pictures of beds of others trucks but one thing I wanted to get rid of was the spot welds on all three of these items. I don't have an issue with the overlap seam, it's just the spot welds I want to get rid of.

I took a rotary brrr and removed the edges of the spot welds then lightly sand blasted them to get and crud out of the weld. Then used body filler for filling them.


I'm not sure of the primers that come on these pieces and I don't want to take chances so I 80 grit sanded most all the primer off so I knew the coat of epoxy primer will adhere well.


I gave the epoxy about 1 1/2 hrs to dry then sprayed on the Feather fill primer.