Rattle Can Kustom!..A 12 week build..Can we do it..

[**grumpy**]

Originally Posted by jcramsey

sweet truck...hope you get the air ride work out and i'll see ya cruisin around when we go visit my wifes fam up in East Liverpool next week

Thanks, but unless you're heading 1 hour north, I doubt you'll see me.
Unless you end up in Boardman. Then you may...
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[jcramsey]

Originally Posted by **grumpy**

Thanks, but unless you're heading 1 hour north, I doubt you'll see me.
Unless you end up in Boardman. Then you may...
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ahh i was thinkin you were closer.... we do get up to Boardman from time to time though...i'll keep a lookout if we do

[**grumpy**]

Originally Posted by Dustin07

hey Grumpy, you bagged front and back, and welded lower a-arms right? do you have any pics of the suspension work you did?

My buddy stepped the lower Aarms. It gained me 2 1/8" drop. He also cut 6" bag plates on his plasma table and welded them flush, so I didn't have to mess with lower bag cups.
Here's a pic installed, and off before new bj's and paint.

He's a master welder and does a lot of heavy chassis fabrication, so no worries about his welds.

The rear is just F9000 sleeve bags on trailing arms, 2" blocks. Its setting on bumpstops just a hair off frame until I can drive out to his shop. Then we're putting a 3" pipe notch in.
So it'll drop another inch or so. I'm putting a bs in again. I just want to drive with back where it is now.
The laid-out trucks are kool, but I like alittle Hotrod rake.
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[Dustin07]

very cool, thanks for sharing Grumpy. my '61 has updated frame ('68) so i'm working on doing something similar to that when I bag it.

[Mad Rods]

Those are some nice rides yall have there!!... Congrats on having a Driver now
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[**grumpy**]

Thanks. Had fun driving it all over today, even when the shifter linkage fell off

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[**grumpy**]

Sorry. No idea why some pics are sideways.
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[creep]

That looks sweet! Which Quaker is that? I am usually at the one in Sheffileld on Sundays.

[**grumpy**]

Originally Posted by creep

That looks sweet! Which Quaker is that? I am usually at the one in Sheffileld on Sundays.

Thats the Austintown Quaker. There were easily 500+ cars yesterday.
But we always park on the outter curb between the Lube and Cracker Barrel, where theres a tree line.
After 25yrs of cruising, Im over the whole sitting in a blacktop parking lot cooking your nuts in the sun...

[coulter]

ur ride turned out really sweet man!!! glad to see you getting to put some miles on it!!
the envy of seeing other people finish their projects and getting to cruise around is the main thing that keeps me going on my truck

[srziemkowski]

Bumper does look a bit up on the passenger side,not bad though,sweet turn out,motivation came my way this morning,i was at a stop light on the way to work this morning and after not barely seeing any of our body style ever,there was a blue one in front of me and when i was admiring it,i look in my mirror and there is a red one behind me woohoo,love it

[RAYDAY]

Jealous!!!!!

[scum1]

anymore progress? also wanted to see if you could snap a pic at ride height..

[b2948kevin]

Super cool truck and story! Looking forward to progress.

[MikeS.]

I like the bandana on the steering column and the serape seat cover. Looks like old skool So Cal.

[Snowbound]

Saw the truck on Ebay. Hope you got everything out of it you needed. Looking forward to the next build thread from you!

Brian

[**grumpy**]

Yep. it sold on ebay last night....
Anyone who knows me knows I get bored very easy. We put about 600 miles on the truck and turned it loose to a new owner.

My son turned 16 a few weeks ago, so I let him drive this one. First one he's worked on that he got to drive, he was stoked.

He's ready to get to work on another one....

So, on to the next one.