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01-16-2016, 12:50 AM
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Re: '66 Project in Texas
I should preface this with the fact that I did not know how to work on cars let alone restore one when I bought this...I bought it to learn and if I knew then what I know now I would have bought the stinking complete rocker panel....I was too dumb to buy a new one so I made that piece....
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01-16-2016, 12:54 AM
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Re: '66 Project in Texas
So this is the part where it took me a week to sandblast the frame because I didn't know that my air compressor wasn't big enough to air up a lawn mower tire.
I got a big 80 gallon to do the body....still took forever. Last edited by Chuck Nukem; 01-16-2016 at 01:10 AM. |
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01-16-2016, 01:13 AM
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Re: '66 Project in Texas
More torture pics...I did the sandblasting in July at my friends house. The most amusing thing happened when one of his fathers workers (father pours concrete for a living) came up to me and said "Man you sandblast that whole truck?!?....you are working too hard" You know you screwed up when a Mexican concrete worker tells you that you are working too hard...
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01-16-2016, 01:22 AM
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Re: '66 Project in Texas
Now for the bodywork....I was on crunch time with this as the plan was to tear the abandoned house that I was using to paint the truck down in October of '15...Well October came and went and I still wasn't done...so I had to call for backup!
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01-16-2016, 01:24 AM
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Re: '66 Project in Texas
I flew my friend down from Connecticut to help me do bodywork...and my mom even came to help! I gave her a sander and turned her loose...she can do bodywork now!
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01-16-2016, 01:25 AM
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Location: Denton, Texas
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Re: '66 Project in Texas
And now for color! SPI medium red and universal clear. I can't say enough good things about Barry and the guys at SPI.
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01-16-2016, 01:28 AM
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Location: Denton, Texas
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Re: '66 Project in Texas
That was my first ever paint job. Last thing for tonight. I ditched the clunky SM465 and went with an NV3500...Should be night and day. I also decided half way between finishing this thing that it would be nice to have disc brakes....so now I am in the process of changing over to an 86 front end. Power steering, AC, power disc brakes, hydraulic throw out bearing....this thing is going to feel like a new truck I hope!
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