64 C10 Stepside "Jaybird"

[siggyfreud]

Love the cab dolly. Wish I would have built something like that. Would have been much easier to move around and take off/put on.

[bj383ss]

Originally Posted by WhippinSaw

you make it look easy Bret, I'm not that brave yet but I am inspired by the amount of progress you've made,

Thank you. I'm glad it looks easy. I'm exhausted after 5 days working on it. 6 days left.

Originally Posted by 1963c-10

Nice work Bret....progress is coming along nicely. Cool old pics....nice to see the old smash hit grill guard in the 1st pic.

Thanks 63. I have a lot of memories in that truck. I too like the smash grills. Won't fit my build though.

Originally Posted by Jeff La

Love the old pics, keep em coming and great work

Thank You. I've got a whole album of my grandpa's cars and trucks I'll post some more.

Originally Posted by McMurphy

I love the window mounted AC unit on the boat, for some reason that just stikes me as funny
Sorry, I know you posted photos of trucks and stuff and all I can talk about is the boat, but...hey....funny is funny.

No worries. This actually a rare sit to see the Carla II out of the water. It spent 99% of its life in a slip a Lake Meredith Marina in the Panhandle. Only time he took it out was to repaint the bottom. The A/C was quite common on most of the boats in the Marina.

Originally Posted by siggyfreud

Love the cab dolly. Wish I would have built something like that. Would have been much easier to move around and take off/put on.

I'm glad I built it to. I saw several different ones here on the forum and thought that's a great idea. Now I can move it outside to sandblast and out of the way if need be.



Well today was a good day. I got some color shot on the frame and I feel like I have hit a milestone. Even though I have a long way to go. Its great to have something looking new and painted.

Primer Surfacer





2 coats of Hot Rod Flatz Black. I originally was going to paint the truck with this but have decided to paint it blue instead. It came out a lot better than I was expecting. I have never used a spray gun before.











I also got the top half of the cross member blasted.


I plan for tomorrow is to finish blasting the cross member and the a arms and get some color on them. I need to build something to hang parts from so I don't have to have two painting sessions flipping things over. I have an idea.

My wife was so excited about it painted she asked what I needed to buy next. Wow that was a shock.

Bret

[TJ's Chevy]

The frame came out really nice! I like the old pictures to!!!

[WhippinSaw]

Frame came out nice, good place for the first time spray gun.
By the time you start spraying blue you'll have it perfected