Project: Bad Bagged '68.5

[jlaird]

Originally Posted by hatechew

Would you happen to know the part number for your headers? I saw in a earlier post they were Sanderson. Nice work on the body lines.
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Thanks guys for all the kind words. Hate chew, I couldnt find any paperwork, but I'm pretty sure the headers are Sanderson CC10
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[jlaird]

I'm going to be running chrome 67 hubcaps on this truck, but I'm contemplating between stock 15" steelies and 20" centerline smoothies. They will be painted or powder coated an off-white/ cream color. Does anybody have a set of the centerlines for sale?
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[VA72C10]

definitely the smoothies....check with Delmo.....

[LooseCannon]

very nice!!

[RustenPaines]

Awesome job so far, terrible news about your friends keen memory!
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[FRENCHBLUE72]

If I was going the smoothie look id also get ahold of del..

[aggie91]

Body work looks great, nice clean gaps.

I agree go to Delmo for the smoothies....

When did you swap to the Dropmember? Last pic of the frame, it looked complete but still had a stock front crossmember...

[Ricks' 72C10]

Great work on your build so far.. I understand what it's like to not have much time to work on it.

[jlaird]

I started a couple new projects. I have to replace the inner brace on my hood, so bought a piece from a board member and proceeded to drill out a thousand spot welds.


Added to my sticker collection. Thanks Keith (n2billet)


Speaking of Porterbuilt, I owe the following rear wheel tub mod how-to to him. Thanks for posting those pics in the Old Aux thread Nate!

Marked out the 3.25 inches I had to remove:




First Cut


Second Cut


Ready to tack. Notice the one relief cut required.


Bought some bedsides. Heres the bed just sitting there on wood blocks.

[67cheby]

nice work.....man you must have to be some kinda special to get a cool PB sticker like that

[RustenPaines]

PB has stickers! That ship must have come in after my order. LoL
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[67c10rustbuket]

beautiful work as always!, cant wait to see the bed floor and wheel tubs all finished. are you using a steel floor or wood floor?

[jlaird]

Originally Posted by 67c10rustbuket

beautiful work as always!, cant wait to see the bed floor and wheel tubs all finished. are you using a steel floor or wood floor?

WOOD!!!
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[jlaird]

Originally Posted by MJs69CST

So many nice things about this build!! My favorite though is your firewall--looks really nice.

Thanks man, really appreciate that!
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[-sean-]

Originally Posted by jlaird

WOOD!!!
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[Newtz67]

Just found this build, awesome! Crazy detail on the panel gaps, wow!

[chapster]

hey jlaird,

nice work as always. If you don't mind me asking, where did you pick up your bedsides and how happy are you with the fitment?

[stepside83]

this is an awesomebuild keep the pics coming

[jlaird]

Originally Posted by chapster

hey jlaird,

nice work as always. If you don't mind me asking, where did you pick up your bedsides and how happy are you with the fitment?

I got the bedsides from mikes bump and grind garage who is a board Vendor. His price was lower than anybody I could find. Since my bed is a total custom job, I really can't speak to the fitment. There isn't another factory panel attached to it except the tailgate. I quickly put it on and the fitment seemed good.
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[babyblueoval]

Originally Posted by jlaird

I got the bedsides from mikes bump and grind garage who is a board Vendor. His price was lower than anybody I could find.

Yeah, Mike is a great guy. He's helped me out before with some recon on some parts.

[jlaird]

I wanted to get people's opinion on something. I am going to make new inner bed panels that will have the same body lines as the factory ones do. I can do this by removing all the spot welds on the factory one and modifying it to fit the raised bed floor or I can leave the factory inner bedside panel in place and fabricate new ones to go over the factory one. Any opinions on which route to take?
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[VA72C10]

Originally Posted by jlaird

I wanted to get people's opinion on something. I am going to make new inner bed panels that will have the same body lines as the factory ones do. I can do this by removing all the spot welds on the factory one and modifying it to fit the raised bed floor or I can leave the factory inner bedside panel in place and fabricate new ones to go over the factory one. Any opinions on which route to take?
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I was planning to make new ones with the body line in them (squished down of course) but have them flush with the inside of the bed.....to cover the stake pocket recess....and I was going to bolt my wheel wells to these new panels to add an extra inch and a half to allow me to run a 12" wide wheel...effectively killing two birds with one stone instead of having to widen the wheel tubs...

[67cheby]

Section the inner bedsides like mine , look at the very first page of my build thread
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[babyblueoval]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

Section the inner bedsides like mine , look at the very first page of my build thread
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Dang Mike.....that was 8/26/2009....




I knew you'd love that.

[67cheby]

I'm...... And where is your build thread ? I must be missing it ? How fast is your progress going ?? Lol , ya like apples , how do you like those apples ?? Lol
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