New guy new project

[waspp]

Originally Posted by E911manager

I cant believe how clean that cab is. Was it originally a New York truck? Oh and I am with you, daylight savings time stinks..

The truck originally came from Virginia but it did have some rot under the floor. It didn't look to bad when I looked at it but when I got into it I found new rockers had been installed over rusted out pillar posts. Needless to say it's been a little more work than I originally thought. Nobody has ever said that before ..right!

[E911manager]

It is amazing how clean they look before you buy them then the rust grows. It took 4 cabs for me to figure this out.. But your still looked pretty good for a eastern truck.. We are about at the same place on our projects. Keep posting pics...

[waspp]

Well it doesn't look like it now but a few days ago it was almost 60 degrees so I sand blasted the rear frame section and painted it mastercoat silver than the black tractor coat. We got all the braces in under the floor and tipped the cab down on the newly painted frame and it will now fit in my garage! Also painted the lower section of firewall, easier to do with the cab tipped up. Color is flat steel blue from TCP global.

[waspp]

Had the garage nice and warm so I got ahead of myself a bit and painted the interior of the cab and dash. I still have a few pieces to weld in the floor and hope to get the inside wrapped up this week if some of my new bits arrive.

[DanSan c 10]

Welcome to the forum from San Diego Ca

[Iron-Butt]

looking good

[waspp]

I took advantage of the unseasonal temps to get the garage warm enough to paint and with some quality evening work time I painted the upper part of the cab. Single stage urethane alpine white.

[joedoh]

looks awesome!

[tripleD]

looks good!! keep up the good work!

[waspp]

Finally got some blue paint on! Hot rod flatz from tcp global

[waspp]

Repaired and repainted the steering wheel... I also managed to score a couple of solid fenders while in Texas!

[jkrenzel]

nice paint can't wait to see it finished!!!!!!!!!

[jbgroby]

You sure ain't wasting any time on it, Looks great!

[waspp]

After a short break to paint my sons 325i project I'm finally back on the 63. Sand blasted the grill and bumper and painted them as well as the side mirror. I have the white on the front fenders as well so fenders and the grill shell are ready for the blue next. I just ordered the rest of my engine parts so that end of the project should be finishing up soon.

[wc63]

thats a nice color scheme. exactly what i was thinking of doing. fawn interior/white top/flat bue. great progress.

[waspp]

Painted the blue and black on the grill shell yesterday and shot the inside of both fenders and the upper fender / cowl pieces. I 'm finding the flat paint is difficult to get consistent, in the end when its all together I think i'll end up giving it one final coat to get the sheen even.

[pestwagon]

nice job! What paint/paint code did you use to paint the interior?

[waspp]

From info found on this site I used a Krylon rattlecan champagne neuvois metallic found at many Walmarts. It's not exactly like the fawn met but very close. Close enough for this guy.

[waspp]

Doors are now painted and just got a big box of weatherstripping parts from classic so I hope to get the doors on over the weekend. I stopped by the machine shop today and my block is all cleaned ready to be bored next week.

[waspp]

Starting to look like a truck!

[waspp]

Finally spending some time rebuilding the 283 that was in the truck when I bought it. I had the block cleaned and bored 30 over and the crank turned and polished. The engine was a 1957 power pak motor that had a bunch of work done to it but still very usable. I scored a set of early 60's power pak heads completely rebuilt so the unit should be good for many years to come. I tried to keep the vintage look of the old motor while not exactly stock. The castings on these old sbc and very rough which gives it a interesting finish.

[RANDY COX]

KOOL,looks like your making some good progress there,can't wait to get started on it...

[socaljess]

looking good that hot rodz flat is the best thing next to sliced bread... easy to use and looks killer keep them pics coming

[Desert.Chevy]

Good looking truck, and nice work.
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[waspp]

Fired the truck for the first time a few days ago so the push is on to finish it up so I can move it around under it's own power. I only ran it for a few minutes but it sounded great! The plan is to bolt the rest of the tin work on and trailer it to a shop I know that can make up an exhaust system, then I can go through the break in process. New brake lines have been run and I just have to bleed everything and that part will be done.