Not Another Rebuild Thread....

[markeb01]

Great video! Thanks for taking the time to put it together.

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by laynrockers

Murph- killer job on the lights. Just as mentioned above. We are all different but brought together for the love of these trucks mad creating our own version. It awesome to see ideas generated and executed. Happy new year!!

I totally agree, and doubt I could say it better sir!!

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

love the vid ...thanks to you and your friend for some really cool music

I am really glad you liked it, he has one about Nitrous Oxide that I am waiting to use for my drive by video this summer !!

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Vid looks great! Congrats on one more step!

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Congrats on the Grille, you cleared that hurdle, me likey! I'm diggin' the air dam!

Yes, and thank you LowElco! I was quite happy to get past that point. Projects that take a long time, after a while, tend to wear me down, and I catch myself wanting to take shortcuts.
That whole face was a prime example.

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

As with the other "Mods" you've done... The Air Dam is Killer!!!

Well Done Sir...
Time for me to research Metal Massaging... The boy is going to need help with his Miata fenders and I need to get after a couple of spots on the bed that will require a hammer and dolly...

Glad you like it Don !! You pump me up man !!
I took a few YouTube classes on the subject. I think it was when Alan was doing his cab corners (well...some major body part anyways) when he mentioned it needing some more "massaging" and I asked about the reference.
I have found that the basic 7pc hammer and dolly set is "nice" but in actuality you need more and different dollys. I have even gone so far as to using another hammer as a dolly or/and as an extention.
One thing to keep in mind, it is not muscle man work!!
Tap tap tap....check it....tap tap tap....check it.... that sort of thing LoL

Originally Posted by markeb01

Great video! Thanks for taking the time to put it together.

Terribly glad you liked it Mark !!
Making and sharing the videos is more fun than posting pics I think....
Some day I may even do a talkie !!

[Trsmotrhed]

Awesome head light mad. I really liked the lights behind the "CHEVROLET" letting on grill. That is wild.

[Jmorales3181]

X2 very creative idea... Nice work, hope your keeping warm, while it's 5 degrees here in Rhode Island. I can't imagine what it's like where you're at!

[bj383ss]

Love the video. Thanks for sharing. Being one of those guys that prides himself in recognizing vehicles at least older ones by their headlights at night. You are going to have some people stumped. LOL.

Bret

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by bj383ss

Love the video. Thanks for sharing. Being one of those guys that prides himself in recognizing vehicles at least older ones by their headlights at night. You are going to have some people stumped. LOL.

Bret

Know exactly what you mean regarding both front and rear light recognition.

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by Trsmotrhed

Awesome head light mad. I really liked the lights behind the "CHEVROLET" letting on grill. That is wild.

Thank you sir, I wish my sheet metal skills were at your level though!
Your fender repair looks great !!

Originally Posted by Jmorales3181

X2 very creative idea... Nice work, hope your keeping warm, while it's 5 degrees here in Rhode Island. I can't imagine what it's like where you're at!

Good to see you posting again, I think many of us have missed you around here during the Holidays!
Hope your were exceptionally good.
Your truck model turned out pretty cool too... I wish I could take the time to do some stuff like that again, but right now I cannot.

Originally Posted by bj383ss

Love the video. Thanks for sharing. Being one of those guys that prides himself in recognizing vehicles at least older ones by their headlights at night. You are going to have some people stumped. LOL.
Bret

Well then I am going to be confusing you both coming and going... my tail lights are going to be an odd job too.

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I really dig the GMC hood, but in my opinion being a GTO fan, the turn signals detract from the awesome body lines in that hood valence. So I decided to shave mine.
This is my story:

First I started with an infamous pizza box template (hooray for PIZZA !!) and drew these babys out on a piece of sheet metal.


Some cutting and the first bend...


These are the two fill plate facing each other to show the taper of the well...


And clamped into place...


Then some welding, grinding, and self etching primer later:


Later when you see this married up to the hood, some of those photos will show just what I was talking about as far as the "nose" on this hood.

[McMurphy]

A couple more for the photo junkies out there (like me) !!!

The d-side:


Straight on:

[clemdaddy]

dadgum... another great idea from the frozen one. way to go murph...
the stuff you do with those blue fingers blows me away. rock-on bud.

[jlsanborn]

"The Frozen One"

Blue fingers

Looks great Murph! Whatchya doin with the tail lights?

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

dadgum... another great idea from the frozen one. way to go murph...
the stuff you do with those blue fingers blows me away. rock-on bud.

Thanks for taking a look Clem.
I just watched "Megamind" again last night, seems he is that color blue too... just saying.

Originally Posted by jlsanborn

"The Frozen One"

Blue fingers

Looks great Murph! Whatchya doin with the tail lights?

I dont usually do previews, but....
I have 1968 Coupe DeVille tail lights.
I was orginally going to mount them in the outside edges of the rear fenderwells, until Stoddard made the comment about visibility with that location. Then I was going mount them on the tailgate edges like he did, until a buddy was over one day, looked at them and said "What about on their side, under the tail gate?"

Since then I have not been able to get that idea out of my head.

Here is what they look like as they ride stock on the Caddilac:


Flip the photo 45degrees and you get an idea of the "cats eye" look of them.
And of course nothing would be quiet right about this build if I didnt have some sort of mod ideas to go along with this as well....


So for any more, you are just going to have to wait until I am at that stage to tackle this.
Sorry.

[Jeff La]

I like the tail light idea, think it'll look great

[bj383ss]

Cool. So one of the white lenses is the backup lights. Is the other a turn signal or just a reflector! Love that Caddy!

Bret

[coulter]

cant wait to see the tail light mod!!! thats gonna look good

[jlsanborn]

Thanks for the preview! Anxious to see how you incorporate those

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by Jeff La

I like the tail light idea, think it'll look great

Thanks, I have high hopes for it.

Originally Posted by bj383ss

Cool. So one of the white lenses is the backup lights. Is the other a turn signal or just a reflector! Love that Caddy!
Bret

The bottom white lens is back up lights, center is brake and turn signal, and top is just dead space. I have a red lens light I am thinking about mounting in the top section to make it turn signal only so it will light up in conjunction with the center section. I will have to play with it a bit first.

Originally Posted by coulter

cant wait to see the tail light mod!!! thats gonna look good

thanks man, cannot wait to see what you pull out of your hat next on your build too !!

Originally Posted by jlsanborn

Thanks for the preview! Anxious to see how you incorporate those

The whole back end is going to be something special IMO.... hang in there, its coming !!!

[Ta2Don]

Just when I thought, "What else can Murph have up his sleeve…"

Evil Genius is just the beginning...

[fordguy]

I joined this site just so I could post on your thread. awesome build

[piratexpress1369a]

cool .wonder if you could fit led lights into the caddy tail light

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Just when I thought, "What else can Murph have up his sleeve…"

Evil Genius is just the beginning...

Hey got a look at your emblem graphic last night at Jay's house, he is really a great guy and I know you are going to be thrilled with what he produces for you!!
I am SO glad you got in touch with him, I hope more guys do !

Originally Posted by fordguy

I joined this site just so I could post on your thread. awesome build

I am too humbled to imagine what to say to that...
I guess, Welcome Aboard, and please take the time to check out some of the other builds, there are guys here with TONS more skills doing things far more imaginative and better engineered than my tinker toy here !!

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

cool .wonder if you could fit led lights into the caddy tail light

No doubt.
The wells in those turn signal lanterns have lots of room to work with.

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Now for some photos !!!


Next step on my hood was to marry up the valence to the hood.
I had long ago admired the filled seam look that others have done so decided I would try my hand at it too !!


This is my d-side corner. Oddly both hoods, the donor GMC and my stock Chevy hoods had taken damage on this corner and no amount of massaging could get them to align up 100% (I had much better luck on the p-side) So this was as good as it was going to get:


I used a welding rod as filler for the gap:


This is after a lot of welding and grinding, shot with some filler primer and sanded down to ID the high-low/trouble spots.
I am not 100% jazzed with the outcome, but I am happy I got it looking this good at least:


Top shot of that corner:::


More tomorrow...hopefully !!
Rock on dudes

[McMurphy]

Ok guys it is tomorrow, and here is more:

All the primary welding is done, and this is how the p-side looked after some filler primer and sanding to ID the trouble spots...


In this photo you can see the "beak" look I was talking about earlier that I like so much about the GMC style hoods.


Here is an edge-on of my fill job...not too shabby I guess eh?


And just one for the glamor of it:


Got a busy weekend with duty, and possibly skiing so it may be a few days before I get the filler and sanding photos up, and also the profile mod I did....

Thanks for looking everyone !!

[Ta2Don]

Very Nice!!!

[Bomp]

Been lookin and keep peeking in, watching, almost studying, in the end you pull it off. Dang Murph, can't wait to see it all together.

[piratexpress1369a]

nice work

[Zane M]

Nice work on the hood.