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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Montgomery, Al.
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Update on my 81 Step-side
Just wanted to give an update on my Lo-Buck street truck...
This is what it looked like when I got it home. |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Montgomery, Al.
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
And this is what it looks like today...
Always open to feedback... |
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Location: Longview,texas
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
I like the front bumper flop looks good
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Cruzzzn' Vet
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Porterville,Ca.
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
Not sure about that front bumper
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Wishin' I had more money!
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Eugene, OR
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
Front bumper ain't doin it for me, but the rest of the truck looks sweet
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
Front bumper not working for me either?????
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
i dont like the front bumper myself, also whats with all the dents? i figured youd do the body work before painting it
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You want it there when???
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Lewisburg Ky
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
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Tot Roddin'
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Mid-MO
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
Classic flat black and red, however..... what's the deal with the front air dam???? To each their own, but it's not quite my cup of tea.
Truck has made a major turn around otherwise, it looks great!
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Spear and magic helmet!
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Nashville, TN
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
It's unusual, I dig it. Kinda looks like it belongs in a Mad Max movie.
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Mad Scientist
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Enola Arkansas
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
Bumper flip...not. Red trim rings...not. I do like the rest though! The main thing is...if you like it then who cares.
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Montgomery, Al.
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
Thanks for all the replys guys.
I know it is not everybodys cup of tea. I really do appriciate all the constructive criticism...From people on this board, it means a lot. As the truck sits now, I only have about $500.00 invested out of pocket, If you add the cost of all the tools and consumables I bought along the way, maybe $700.00....NO, I did not put the decimal in the wrong place !!!!!!!!! The bumper seems to be raising the most eyebrows... I had never seen it done on one of these trucks, so I went with it. As far as all the dents in the fenders, I'm not a bodyman, and it would cost money to have that done....But I just found out that a guy I work with does it.... Future plans: replacing the tail lights with something different, maybe some surface mount lights on the face side of the bumper. Also thinking about some ghost flames of some kind.?.?.?.? Finish setting the rearend level with the front. Replace the amber turn signals in the front bumper. Might change the red to a hugger or HEMI orange. Put some tunes in. Insulate the cab cause these trucks have too much of a hollow sound. Once again, thanks for all the feedback. Last edited by FlatBrokeRacing; 12-18-2007 at 07:12 AM. |
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glamoros piece o' lowlife
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Redford, MI
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
How about something like this for a bumper?
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Wishin' I had more money!
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
That bumper looks pretty stout. I also like the amber lights on the core support.
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Workaholic
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Katy, TX
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
Photochop
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My truck is an alcoholic
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Marquette Mi
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
I just want your rust free parts!! Flat black the wheels and the red trim rings will have that old school hot rod look. Inverted bumper is interesting, but doesnt really flow with the truck. it looks like an after thought. Maybe an inch too much rake, but otherwise looks good. Dents dont bother me. I think there is around $1000 in my truck, including the 454, so low buck appeals to me..
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glamoros piece o' lowlife
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Redford, MI
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
the bumper is photochopped, but you make one by cutting the top part of one and the bottom of another and welding the pieces together - you end up with a massive front bumper like this, and possibly a thin rear bumper.
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Montgomery, Al.
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
Thumpin 455,
The inverted bumper was sort of an afterthought. But it did what I wanted it to do and that was simply to give the face of truck a different look. I really do appriciate all the feedback from everyone. |
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STILL PLAYS WITH TRUX
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Melbourne, Fla.
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The truck look's alot better now then when you first got it.
I think that front bumper will prove to be a real shin killer while working in the engine compartment. But id'e say it's a killer ride for 500 bux!!!! ![]() ![]() |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Montgomery, Al.
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
87 STEPPER,
Thanks for takin a look. I'm not a big guy, so when I need to work in the engine bay, I generally just climb over in there with it. Hey, it does save the shins... Thanks again. |
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glamoros piece o' lowlife
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Redford, MI
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Cleveland, TN
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
Looks like something that will run your ass over
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Montgomery, Al.
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Re: Update on my 81 Step-side
Ivan D.
I know what you mean.. BaddBusa2005, I will take that as a compliment. Someone on another forum said it looked like a train almost... Thanks for takin the time to post a response. |
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