1960 GMC K1000 4x4

[KroAutomotiveInc]

spent a few hours last night scraping under the truck did everything under the bed the frame, axle, leaf springs ect. The truck has had a rubberized coating put on everything under the truck its falling off in some parts and others its still stuck on solid and it actually looks like its done some real good under there for keeping stuff from rusting so what ever dosent come off with a pass of a putty knife and then wire bush i feel wont be coming off.

This weekend i want to paint everything under the truck from the cab back with gloss black and maybe do a few items inside the truck to get the theme of this thing going

[KroAutomotiveInc]

i have the rear axle scraped and cleaned took hours was down there with a putty knife a few scrub brushes and some degreaser. Got the carpet riped out some rust on floor but very little. Scraped the driver side door and jam it had blue flaky paint on it still need to do the other side and i got one door panel striped down and sanded ready to fix the holes and primer it.

[KroAutomotiveInc]

[KroAutomotiveInc]

look at what real beauty america use to build its the reason i love building these trucks there's nothing like bring it back to life again to live another day.

[chevy_man5]

I found a paint at Walmart that pretty closely matches the original silver the inside of our trucks were. If you are interested.

The Chevy guys have been using the same brand of paint, but in Champagne Nouveau color, to match their Fawn interiors.







You are jamming on this truck. Way to go! Keep up the good work!

[aerotruk63]

[KroAutomotiveInc]

15 hours later....







done for the weekend hopefully will have them primered before the weeks over

[McMurphy]

Deleting the armrests, or are you going to do a fresh re-mounting of them?

[KroAutomotiveInc]

I am deleting them for a more clean look and there both missing lol

[KroAutomotiveInc]

one down all i got to say is stick with the armrests lol

[piratexpress1369a]

what a change from before

[chevy_man5]

Nicely done!

I am actually wanting to put armrests in. LOL

[McMurphy]

That does look good !!!

[KroAutomotiveInc]

thanks guys hope to have them all done by the 16th aswell as the door jams and hopefully the back half under the truck

[Zane M]

Saw you driving your other truck northbound on Fort Street at about 10:30 this morning. Looking cool.

[KroAutomotiveInc]

Originally Posted by Zane M

Saw you driving your other truck northbound on Fort Street at about 10:30 this morning. Looking cool.

lol thanks dude was headed to work probably
just pulled out of my house what was you doin around here

[KroAutomotiveInc]

good bye 420 posts haha

[KroAutomotiveInc]

bumper coming along nicely so far

[KroAutomotiveInc]

[KroAutomotiveInc]

planing on buliding a 5 inch plat form on the top also going to box in the angle iron.

[KroAutomotiveInc]

something i found out while trying to mount this bumper straight was not to go off of the tape i messed with the tape for 45 min trying to get it lined up just couldn't do it. then i just started eye balling it witch worked much better then the last thing i found was taking pictures of it really helped because you could look at a still of it and judge distance.

[KroAutomotiveInc]

got the bumper mounts all done and welded have all the metal on top cut but not yet ready to weld










all tacked using flux cord almost out of gas and i ready layed it down thick lol... my dad said the front of my truck will break off before my bumper dose lol

[KroAutomotiveInc]

in pic there 12 inch ended up taking them down to 11 for a 5 inch space form org


that felt great


ready for paint

[chevy_man5]

Looks pretty bulletproof!

Why did you put the spacer under the front pieces?

[KroAutomotiveInc]

well that driver side was about a half a inch lower and you could tell big time so when i brought that side up it made it so i needed to bring up the pass side a tiny bit to get it looking perfect