Guess my bug was contagious (F-I-L's Truck)

[Revoh]

Wow--that is quite a transformation!

[Jeff La]

Came out really nice

[Leroy-B1]

So fast.....it takes a year around here to get anything done like that

[JWheeler331]

I hope that I can get some extra money up and do mine real soon. Not sure what color I will be going. I wish he hadn't found that color first.

We are more than happy with the transformation of his truck.

[chrisestes]

dang that came out really nice

[JWheeler331]

Okay, went over there today and was able to get some better pics of the truck. Its a dreary day here so not the best lighting.















Need to find some hubcaps. We were told that the original style would not fit this rim but today we stopped by a friends house who is a mechanic and he happened to be working on a 1965 truck. We popped off one of the original style and it did fit this rim so he is hoping that he can find a set of used ones in good shape.


The truck our friend was working on today had the boards in the bed so we also tried them on his truck to see what they looked like. ( I see a future project in his future cause he sure did like them)



And one more of the proud owner holding my son.

[Leroy-B1]

Any plans on lowering or gonna leave that height? Looks good if he can't find original truck caps for it the ones from same period cars will work I used 66 Chevelle caps on mine....you can use camaro, Chevelle, impala and a few others that look nice on our trucks....here's a photo of mine

[JWheeler331]

He's going to leave it the same height.

[JWheeler331]

Here are a few from last night. We was working on the bed wood. My father in law decided that he wanted to try it our self using pine and flat bar. He chose pine because its cheaper (Free....since he had a bunch of pine 2x6s......yeah, we planed them down that far) and we were not sure how many mistakes we would make. In the future he will prob. change it to either oak or some other type of nicer wood.

When he started he was using black bolts but we decided to go to stainless bolts. You can see in the pictures that we still have a few black bolts left to change.

Me and my little helper


Father in law.....Bozo











This is the hubcaps we found locally. We are going to paint them white with the bowtie being the same color as the truck. Anyone know what year those hubcaps were from and what they were on?

[61K10]

nice job! you would never know it was the same truck. looks good just the way it is.

[Leroy-B1]

Those are mid 80's s10 caps

[JWheeler331]

Originally Posted by 61K10

nice job! you would never know it was the same truck. looks good just the way it is.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Leroy-B1

Those are mid 80's s10 caps

Thank you....we were not sure. He would have loved to have some of the more original hubcaps but could not find any good used ones and he was never going to pay 299 for a set of the new.

[JWheeler331]

Here is the sign we had made up for my father in law's truck. Everyone calls him Bozo......I know someone was going to ask.

[Leroy-B1]

Looking good

[gulfcoast66]

Man yall truck looks real Good!! The side boards are icing on the cake. Well done indeed!!!

[JWheeler331]

Originally Posted by gulfcoast66

Man yall truck looks real Good!! The side boards are icing on the cake. Well done indeed!!!

Thanks.