better late than never 62 short fleet

[southeastvachevy]

well I have been on this forum for a year or so finally got around to doing a little work on truck so im starting a build thread.I drove the truck like this for years the po had installed a sbc 350 and turbo 350 trans,power steering and a tilt column out of a later model truck.I always liked the look of the short fleet trucks so I sold the stepside bed and purchased one from board member chevyrestoguy. got some work done this weekend shaved hood seam and started to shave door handles

[allaboutchevelles]

Your Truck is looking good. But you have me confused with someone else. Im Tony (allaboutchevelles) and I havent sold any bedsides to anyone before. LOL. Im glad to hear you must have found a nice fleetside bed for your truck though. Keep up the good work!!

[southeastvachevy]

yep i mistaked you for chevyrestoguy he was restoring the same truck and a chevelle to.Thinks for the words of encouragement your build is coming together nice.

[Dustin07]

did you cut the panel for the door handle filler, or does somebody make the plate pre-rolled? I'm feeling lazy. lol

[southeastvachevy]

I ordered them from scotts hot rods the curve of the plates is perfect did a little grinding around the edges to get an exact fit. Also got the patch for the fuel filler in the cab.

[Dustin07]

awesome, thanks. what are you changing your gas tank setup to?

[southeastvachevy]

I got a rci aluminum fuel cell gonna mount under the bed

[southeastvachevy]

got down to the shop last night for a couple of hours finished welding in door handle patch.Had the normal door smiley looks like the po used brass to fill the dent so I had an extra door laying around so decided to cut out the bad spot and will replace with a patch from the donor door.

[southeastvachevy]

found this pic of my door panels the sun visors headliner and seat all have been upholstered like this not sure if im gonna keep it this way or not.

[southeastvachevy]

my bed is coming together slowly but surely, picking up some black walnut boards I scored for my bed floor planed, ripped, and cut to length for $100 pics this weekend after I pick up lumber

[southeastvachevy]

I got the lumber for my bed this weekend in the pic you can see the walnut boards underneath and some ambrosia maple boards I also got on top.I used the extra walnut boards I had to make a top for an antique cart im gonna use as a coffee table still need to apply the poly.Removed my passenger side door to finish the body work on it and decided to snap some pics of my interior.

[southeastvachevy]

Here is a pic of the table with a couple coats of polyurethane probably gonna add two more coats.