My '59 Apache

[Denee007]

Baa baa! lol

Originally Posted by _Ogre

are they reading the 55-59 assembly manual?

[Kim57]

Real shiny bumper.
Kim

[Stepside Jim]

Your build is coming together nicely and it is a joy to feel the enthusiasm you have as you're working on your truck.

Looking good, Jim

[faribran]

Is that a supplied resporator? Good for you. Paint is fun, but wicked animal.
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[Denee007]

uh, you talkin to me? I have a full breathing system and it works very well. Below is a link to my blog telling about it. I'm working trying to make my blog interesting. I recommend a full breathing system for sure! What's really neat, is to put the "air supplier" in a AC'd area and pump cool air to the face mask/hood. Especially nice when sandblasting using the full hood!

Now tell me how you came up with "faribran"?
dne'
http://www.classiccarsandtools.com/2...athing-system/

Originally Posted by faribran

Is that a supplied resporator? Good for you. Paint is fun, but wicked animal.
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[faribran]

Denee
i have a supplied air system as well... have had it for years... a good friend in a local body shop died a few years back... he had been painting for years...

the name "Faribran"... is what we named our property. it is a portion of the names of 3 family members; spouse, Faye (FA), mine, Richard (RI), son, Brandon (BRAN). :-)

i am impressed with all the things you have done and are still doing to your truck...

[Denee007]

Now that is a unique way to come up with a user name Richard! Thank you for the compliment too! Sorry to hear about your friend~
dne'

Originally Posted by faribran

Denee
i have a supplied air system as well... have had it for years... a good friend in a local body shop died a few years back... he had been painting for years...

the name "Faribran"... is what we named our property. it is a portion of the names of 3 family members; spouse, Faye (FA), mine, Richard (RI), son, Brandon (BRAN). :-)

i am impressed with all the things you have done and are still doing to your truck...

[Wazup]

Hello There, I just got done going thru your Thread, You and Yours put out some Great work, I hope to see it finished ...

[Denee007]

Thanks Wazup! I do try! ; )

Originally Posted by Wazup

Hello There, I just got done going thru your Thread, You and Yours put out some Great work, I hope to see it finished ...

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[dubie]

I've been following your build and I just had to tell you how impressed I am at the work you're doing. My wife is a gear head that loves to do things on her own too and you just don't find that very often anymore. I have to commend you for taking on as much of this work as you have. Keep up the great work on this worth while little project truck. It's going to be a real head turner

[Denee007]

Thank you dubie! Gee you guys know that I really eat up compliments! I had a girlfriend come over and she really hadn't see my(our) garage, and she walks around looking at the stuff going on, looks at me and says in her british tone,"and you like doing this!?" I laughed! I'll be 58 tomorrow, I hope my ailments don't get any worse as I'd like one more smaller project before I throw the towel in on these larger projects. Like a tiny car or something. ; )

Originally Posted by dubie

I've been following your build and I just had to tell you how impressed I am at the work you're doing. My wife is a gear head that loves to do things on her own too and you just don't find that very often anymore. I have to commend you for taking on as much of this work as you have. Keep up the great work on this worth while little project truck. It's going to be a real head turner

[OrrieG]

Don't stop, you will begin to rust and seize up. Your Brit friend was just mad there wasn't an old MG in there (TC was my first auto love and still would like to have one, blame the book "The Red Car").

[Denee007]

Gee Orrie, I think I'm already seizing up!!
I'm just working on little things that doesn't require a lot of neck bending since my neck is kind of giving me a fit I thought the headlight bezels were heavier, kind of thin stuff, but look ok. I worked on the grill too, but won't be installing as of yet. This grill I bought off of CL in calif. it's an original, but as usual didn't realize how rusty the backside is. The man had it hanging in his garage for 30 years and decided to part with it. If I had it to do over, I would have bought a repop. I did put new lenses and new sockets that take the 1157 bulb(2 filaments). Ok heading to see a movie


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[Denee007]

Hi! I didn't think I'd ever figure out the headlight wiring, but I got them working! I was worried that maybe somewhere along the way I didn't wire something correctly, but I guess I followed the directions as stated. ; ) I just had to put the truck back down on the ground again! I hope to have it running soon~ I did stop by my local exhaust shop and he made me a couple pipes (mini headers) to come off of my block huggers, but he didn't bend them enough, no biggy. I changed my mind about doing the exhaust myself, I've been having enough neck problems~ I don't need to aggravate it anymore than I already have. Maybe if I had a full lift in a large open garage I might have~wishful thinking!
dne'

[Kim57]

Let there be light. Good job.
Kim

[Denee007]

Good morning!
Yesterday Dave Chapman come over to see about making a relay system for my electric fan, but while he was here, I had tried to start my engine but couldn't get it to lite!! I had gas but no fire coming out of the plug wire from the HEI dist. Luckily Dave drove up and I got his input; ). We found a problem but still no fire. After Dave left, I went to pull the dist cap off again, but this time I found that the plug that plugs into the dist cap( not the batt wire), one of the terminals wasn't all the way into its place and wasn't making contact! This time, I turned the key~ and vroom! ; ). I hot wired my electric fan to work so I could run the engine up to operating temp, then top off the fluids. I couldn't run it too much longer as the loudness was getting to me! But it runs!!!!!!!! I may just pay the bucks and have a wrecker come get it and take it to the muffler shop!
But was really nice to see Dave!! ; )
Dne'
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[Kim57]

Congrats. You should be driving it in no time.
Kim

[shadow1967]

Great feeling when it goes VROOOM for the first time. That makes it all worth while!! GREAT JOB!

[Denee007]

Thank you! It was definitely exciting! My mom was sitting in the garage when it made contact! A small basketball came from the carburetor, mom says what was that?! Ah nuttin ma! . I bought the cheapest mufflers I could find so I can run the engine. I'm still debating on the hugger headers whether to keep them or not, before I spend the money on the rest of the exhaust. I'd really like long tube headers, but not sure what will work.
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[_Ogre]

it's alive, it's alive! very cool.

[dubie]

Oh c'mon Denee, you can't tease us like this, where's the video of it running with open exhaust??

[wutnxt]

congradulations on firing it.....it's always nice to hear things run.....awesome

[tpimuncie]

Originally Posted by Denee007

I'm finally getting around to making a build thread. most of you know my '59 Apache. Bried history; I bought the truck from a lady here in Houston, kind of a stressed sale. The truck had already been painted a burgundy metallic with pearl. Very pretty in the sunlight! The truck was already painted and it has had the power front disc brake conversion done~ one thing less I have to do!

This is the day that I bought the truck. Here it is being loaded and soon to be at my home across Houston. One thing that can be seen is this photo is the left rear wheel being setback a few inches.



I had gone through a process of getting the motor running, but being a 230, it just doesn't capish with the truck. Though it does run now, I'm just not going to be happy with this motor and tranny.


I've been moving very slowly due to a reoccuring back problem, but I think I'm slowly coming out of it, but will be looking into a means of brains over brawn utilizing lift, maybe even making a small lift that will pick up smaller items. I've got an idea in my head and will post it as time goes on. Bascially will be just a smaller version of a full lift.
I have yet to order the repair metal for my radio~

This is the truck after I had repaired the left spring and installed a 2" lift, but I think that's all going to be changed out in the near future.

nice truck

[squirrely_1]

Love it!
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[Denee007]

You guys are so Terrific! ; )

Well, while waiting on another set of headers, long tube this time, I'm working on getting my radio functioning! I hope this works, but I put my remote brake fluid reservoir from Scotts on the kick panel. The tubes run behind the kick panel. If for some reason it doesn't flow, I'll redo the kick panel. Amazing how long it takes to get small things accomplished!


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This is not my truck, but I found this pic while googling. I think I was looking at wheels/tires.

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