Unofficial introduction

[61TWUK]

Originally Posted by 63 & 64 Bowties

I'm not sure if I'd paint it if it were me. Try a couple cans of Ajax on it first, see what appears.
And, welcome. Always nice to have another 60-66 guy here.

Ohh the paint is DEAD on the hood.. under all of the black crap

[Captainfab]

Welcome to the board and thanks for your and your wife's service

Sounds like you have a good plan and the ambition to get it done. Keep us posted on your progress.

[mwmeador38]

I have to agree. You can do amazing things with the original paint on these things. Scrub it clean as a whistle and see what ya got. It it's dull and ugly go at it gently with a water hose on low and about 1000 grit sand paper. You'd be amazed what you can reveal. When you like what you see, stop sanding and proceed to polishing compound if you want a sheen to it. I dry sanded the dash on my 66 chevy truck and removed tons of pitting and trash and now have a nice, smooth dash surface that looks so much better than it did...

[Jeff La]

Welcome and it looks like a great truck to start with

[VonDog]

Originally Posted by 61TWUK

Neither was I my plan back when I was younger was to put a 62-66 hood on it... but after looking at it for awhile I grew to LOVE that hood would'nt have it any other way!!!!

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[Vernski]

I don't think anybody noticed this thread is from 2009 I wonder if he is still around if you are welcome to you..Vernski

[ricott]

He sold it about 2 years ago:


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So after managing to keep my first car I ever purchase for more than 13 years, I no longer own it. I sold my 1961 Apache, I've been posting an ad on Craigslist for a couple of months now mostly bluffing myself. But a friend of my father offered me close to what I wanting out of it. One of the bad things about today is that I'm currently deployed to a very "hot, sandy" place and will not be able to see my truck one last time before its gone. Just to let yal know I'm going to keep lurking around I have really enjoyed reading yal's builds they have honestly made me keep my truck a lot longer than I should have I've been in the military for 9 years now and honestly because of moving around so much do not have the time or space to build it like it should be.

Chet