Slick Copper's Build Thread

[Rob H.]

PM me with your address and a phone number, I'll give you a call sometime.

[Slick67]

Congrats on the new home!!! Super nice!! Glad you got your mancave too! Now, on to business.........WHERE'S THE PICS!!!!

[slick copper]

Well, p still, no work to Copper, but adding to the garage. Welder, shop press, engine hoist, engine stand, mechanics seat, jack stands, and more. Harbor Freight had some stuff on sale.
Had the Prius loaded down. Lol.

[slowcpe]

Just spent good portion of my work day reading through your build thread Looks good so far. Any more updates?

I'm with you as far as organizing the garage. I've purchased more and rearranged the garage more times in the last year than I ever would have imagined. HF is also a very addicting store.

Looking forward to seeing the progress.

[slick copper]

Thanks man. No progress as of yet. Just bought her a 83 Z28 camaro.
That crowded the garage with all the mowing equip until our storage building comes in that we ordered. Next step is remove the doghouse and pull the engine and tyranny.

[slick copper]

Really seems like my thread is dead, but I have been busy with my wife's Camaro so not like I've not been doing anything. It's getting a full interior makeover. I have been ordering some parts. Got my offenhauser valve cover and matching finned side plates from tom at 12bolt.com. Also a billet carrier bearing and original 67 bowtie seatbelts. The pile continues to grow. Wish I had more time to work on it and the weather was nicer right now.

[slick copper]

It's been a while, and I know all you guys have probably given up on me and Copper, but........IT HAS BEGUN!!!!!

[slick copper]

And it continues. Had some help from the wonderful wife. She helped with the passenger fenders and engine pulling.

[slick copper]

More! I knew y'all wouldn't believe me if I didn't post pics!

[slick copper]

The last pics were of last night 7/14/15 and these are from tonight the 15th. Got the engine up on the stand mounted securely and cleaned up all the mess of oil dry from where transmission fluid and coolant went everywhere. Next will be to take the transmission to the shop for an overhaul and to teardown the engine and take to the machine shop. Hopefully while that's being done I can work on taking the cab apart and removing it and the bed.

[NewType72]

Wonderful news! Happy to hear copper is back on track. keep Rollin brotha.

[Slick67]

The man, the legend!! Welcome back to the world of the living! Glad to see some progress happening, keep at it!!

[trac209]

Will be following along with your progress

[slick copper]

Glad to know someone still remembers. Lol. Hope to keep it going. Been on vacation this week. I'm sure back to the grind will slow things down a bit. Thanks guys. I plan to be on here more often too.

[71Sleeper]

I was wondering when you would start back up. Now you have giving me a reason to pull OL Blue out from under the dust its collected the past 2.5 years. That and my son is turning 15 and has laid claim to the truck. I will be starting back soon too. Going to pick up an auto tranny in the morning.

Now that you've had all this time to plan your build out how about giving some details of what we have to look forward to.

[slick copper]

Glad to see that I've inspired someone!
I guess plans haven't differed too much from my original plans. Burnt orange/copper in color with the white top and the wheels u see. Not going to go crazy low just drop spindles in front and 3 or 4 in back. Want to keep a lil rake to it. And the inline and th350 going to get rebuilt with some upgrades for a little more fun factor. Still working out details but u probably get the idea.

By the way. Forgot to mention before tearing Copper apart I got curious. Even thought the trans was leaking like crazy and it'd been sitting for almost 3 years. I hooked my jumper box to him and after a couple cranks he fired right up! I have a short video but don't know how to post it.

[knomadd]

Looks like I found your build just in time... Keep it up, and keep the pics coming.

[slick copper]

Thanks man. Going out on our boat today, but plan to do some more tomorrow! Yeah I know we all love our pics on here!

[slick copper]

Well not much recent progress. Just been looking at parts getting ideas on details and what all I want to put into this truck. Did order and get in a new chrome dome light and energy suspension cab mount kit. Few pieces here and there will add up over time.

[slick copper]

Just thought I'd show a couple pics. I'm amazed at how clean this truck is. I've seen many that the lower cowl fresh air area is just completely rotted out. I think it all looks original. Let me know if you see repair areas. The rockers are solid too. No rust anywhere except driver inner kickpanel area. Very small. The wife picked an amazingly solid truck when she bought it for me.

[mcbassin]

Your cab looks solid from here. You are all in at this point! no returning. Keep hammering away one job at a time and you'll be back on the road soon.

[slick copper]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

Your cab looks solid from here. You are all in at this point! no returning. Keep hammering away one job at a time and you'll be back on the road soon.

Thanks. I hope you're right.

[71Sleeper]

Wow yours looks better than mine and I thought I was the lucky one. You got a solid truck now you and I need to stay focused this time around. Maybe another two years from now we will be able to really enjoy them.

[slick copper]

Thanks. Yeah still kinda mesmerizing how clean and rust free this thing is. And hopefully it'll only be 2 years!

[slick copper]

Well, got some work done on Copper. Interior stuff removed, master cylinder, heater box, and more. Got some pics, but don't want to post them from my phone. Just thought I'd share the progress update.