Torchered

[RustenPaines]

Since the body is in prep mode looking at magazines to find a color has been a pass time between phone calls at the office. There is a green that has been stuck in the back of my mind but everyone tells me with red accents and interior the truck will look like a Christmas tree. I was really intending to cross a hot rod and modern low rider with out involving flat paint. But in the end I think due to friends convincing the blue sprayed earlier will most likely be the color choice. I'm still holding out on one particular color, just waiting on some info headed to me in the post.
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[RustenPaines]

Body prepp mode was lingo for cab to the blaster. I guess they were in china because that took 2 months. And then a surprise. The roof had a huge dent in it that involved the passenger side window pillar. Although the inside roof seems to be fine. Just my luck. Roof is being re skinned, but now the body guy knows why the gap was off on the passenger door.

Sold the Nova, didn't see the point in having two cars anymore. No time to wax one let alone two. But that was fine she paid for the rest of this little guy.

Due to the car selling this will now be a bench seat truck with the shifter on the column. Exciting stuff. Wish I had something cool to show you like wheels but....

[Bennett68C10]

Wow I can't believe you haven't received your wheels yet. I would call up and threaten to cancel if you don't have them in a week or so. My billet specialties only took 4 weeks and my Intros only took 7 weeks and your going on over 8 months which is ridiculous. Can't wait to see some more progress.

[Hardesty454]

Great build. Love everything youve done.

[mud.man.rj]

Wow that is way to long to wait for rims, I waited for 3 months one time and finally cancelled, felt like I had a weird tick everytime I thought about it for 2 months before I cancelled them.

[RustenPaines]

Originally Posted by Bennett68C10

Wow I can't believe you haven't received your wheels yet. I would call up and threaten to cancel if you don't have them in a week or so. My billet specialties only took 4 weeks and my Intros only took 7 weeks and your going on over 8 months which is ridiculous. Can't wait to see some more progress.

I feel sort of bad. I went with there layaway program and through there relaxed Jamaican speed and my forget full ness it took 13 months to finish paying the invoice. Its been another 12-14 months so i just a little confused as to the issue. I didn't lead them on or lie to them like they have been doing. At this moment I am seriously considering requesting my money back. And since the contract says they get to keep $500 as a deposit I am oh so thrilled. Latest news was that the wheels would ship a week ago Monday. And they'd contact me. Nothing so I called and " I was on vacation they didn't call you? " and so on. Really too bad I have been really looking forward to seeing these wheels on my rig. Think ill start reviewing California small claims.

Originally Posted by Hardesty454

Great build. Love everything youve done.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by mud.man.rj

Wow that is way to long to wait for rims, I waited for 3 months one time and finally cancelled, felt like I had a weird tick everytime I thought about it for 2 months before I cancelled them.

Luckily no tick yet

[Bennett68C10]

Wheels look great, glad you finally got them

[RustenPaines]

Originally Posted by Bennett68C10

Wheels look great, glad you finally got them

I started stressing out about choosing wheels again. Glad it all worked out.

[shacrm]

Looking good! It's good to see another Oregonian on here! I'm in Creswell close to Eugene getting hit by another snow storm! My project is titled (WRAITH) you should check it out, it's a little slow going right now.


Shane

[RustenPaines]

Originally Posted by shacrm

Looking good! It's good to see another Oregonian on here! I'm in Creswell close to Eugene getting hit by another snow storm! My project is titled (WRAITH) you should check it out, it's a little slow going right now.


Shane

H ha, I have 2 trucks stuck down there due to i5 closers.

Shane they are all slow going. As long as you get to the finish line is all that will matter in the end. And I will check it out.

[RustenPaines]

It's been awhile, this truck has been pretty stagnant. Today the trigger was pulled on moving this truck to a new shop in the Greater Portland area. I met the owner years ago when I was sporting my Nova around and the things we talked about doing came out years later in the pages of magazines. Friday is the big day and against everyone's advise I notified the current shop. They seem just fine with the decision, I hope it goes that smoothly. Here is looking at an open road behind the wheel of my rig someday soon!

[highanglehell]

The truck is looking great can't wait to see the finished product definitely fallowing this one

[RustenPaines]

Few im in some pain today, hip started hurting yesterday and I just cannot stretch it out. Then today the truck was moved to Finn's Auto Restoration in Woodburn Oregon. And I was told basically the money invested from my nova was wasted. God why do I always get stuck at the back of the line. So maybe with 30-40k I can finish this truck. What a bleep bleep bleep man.

We did order some new doors as the 1/4 inch of no do on the kin dig it handles wasn't ok. 10 steps back .....

Hopefully by the end of the month the body panels will be fit and some gaps fixed. (Scratch my head), I'm going to have to decide what the finish is going to be, how about some old John deer seats to cut costs! LoL

[mud.man.rj]

Big rims are in these days, use some old wooden ones to cut cost, things that used to be in come back...right. Hard to always win isn't it.

[RustenPaines]

Originally Posted by mud.man.rj

Big rims are in these days, use some old wooden ones to cut cost, things that used to be in come back...right. Hard to always win isn't it.

Well I am in Oregon and that is where the Oregon Trail ended. Some one must have a stock pile of all those wagons that went west and ended there trips here! Great idea!!

[Dieselwrencher]

Sorry to hear of your bad deal. Hopefully this new shop can get it done without wrecking your economics. Also, I hope your hip gets better.

[RustenPaines]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Sorry to hear of your bad deal. Hopefully this new shop can get it done without wrecking your economics. Also, I hope your hip gets better.

Thank you, it did get better.

LoL, yea the economics. Well if I could do it my self I would but I know em exactly where it will be in 10 years. I'll just have to keep up my hard work to keep them doing there hard work.

[RustenPaines]

Dropped by the shop, spent well over an hour taking inventory of parts stashed away in boxes and tubs. There is a lot more parts than I imagined.

[RustenPaines]

"Bummed out" is today's word. Stopped by Finn's to check up on things. Yea not so good. So there is alot of body work (metal) issues. We had to sit down with the two metal fabricators and talk about what had happened. The fact there is so much invested it should be done and driving now and that I am interested in making it nice but it won't be to what they say are "there specs". Dan and Glen were very understanding.

So when you pull out a straight edge things are not so good. And about 1/4 of bondo was removed on the beds sides. There are a couple dents on the beds sides. The rear lower quarter where it's been missed to fit the rear bumper is rolled forward to back and accross the back tailgate area the rear corners roll forward. It's supposed to be square. So yea life has given me some lemons at this time. You know an LS motor isn't sounding so expensive anymore....

[RustenPaines]

When the sh*t hits the fan...
During my last visit in October I was told " we ordered new bedsides because we tried to fix the rear lower quarter but we just can't make it look right, and the tail lights are sloped in. There not supposed to do that so this will be easier"
And I say "ok". On the way home the $$$ signs start rolling through my head so I call them the following Monday and askthem to halt any more work. A couple crazy weeks go by and I make it to the shop and speak with the chief fabricator Dan. He explains how and the whys and that it won't cost as much as I'm thinking because they know the pickle I'm in.

Now the bed is nothing but a substructure. Both side skins and tailgate skins have been removed. 67 bed sides are going on. Which means the rear has no bumper mods and side marker holes while the front has both. Time and fitment will tell how that plays out but I think the side markers will stay. Oh how many things have changed. lol I've waited 4 years to see my wheels on this thing and it looks like it won't be my Christmas present. Perhaps my birthday in May. Cheers to all of you and have a great December!

[rondog4416]

man I just read your whole thread and truck will be sweet when done sorry to hear all the problems you been having with builders but hope all works out for you, don't give up bro !!

[RustenPaines]

Originally Posted by rondog4416

man I just read your whole thread and truck will be sweet when done sorry to hear all the problems you been having with builders but hope all works out for you, don't give up bro !!

God I hope things work out too. Thank you for your words.

I hope to have some pictures up first of the week.

[FRENCHBLUE72]

At least something good happened

[mud.man.rj]

Merry Christmas is right, rims fit so good, congrat's.

[RustenPaines]

Thank you guys. Although it is not as far as I expected for the money. And it has a lot of firming issues she just about made me cry when I walked in and saw the truck all together, looking like a sweet as hell. Due to issues the front bumper mod will be kept, it's going to need a lot of TLC there and the rear will receive a custom roll pan. The fabricators aprentice has been doing most of the work and he's pretty stoked to be doing it. His opinion was to cut out the rear bumper and do a roll pan to save some money on time.

What I saw when I walked in


This picture I think says it all





The part you can't see is the inner splash guards in the rear wheel wells.