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Re: Restoring Rusty
taking stuff apart is so much fun
well this is as far as I got tonight the best part even my wife loves this project, I think she said "parking in the garage is so overrated, especially in the winter" or something like that!!! as she photo bombed the scene of the crime |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
a whoda what? are you assuming I have a long bed or something? my truck is a short bed (about 79 1/2" long) and this thing is a short bed too, measures about 80 1/4" long
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So what do you all think, do we keep them crazy frenched in tailights or yank them and weld the holes back up smooth and mount the standard round Mickey Mouse stock tailights?
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Looks like a nice solid bed
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Standard lights. Kind of want to throw one on mine as well rather than the fleetside it's supposed to have. I just like the style.
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Uh Oh..Sounds like trouble.
Great news if you do come over to the stepside crowd. The round lights down low with a sport bumper would be sweeet..Just sayin. |
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Yup thanks, my buddy Mopar Seth and I have been talking about starting our Step Side Mafia group for quite some time, he has a step side Power Wagon and now I have this, ha ha
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Mine is a shortened bed.....
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I'm so jealous now. Darn you. Can you get the other stepside bed and drop it off at my house for my birthday and Christmas please. I promise to use it.
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Just saw the pictures, that would make an awesome mobile fire pit. Sweet buy.
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and so I pressed on and had that thing in pieces in no time
took the driver wheel cover/fender off |
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removed the tailgate, removed the bolt on one side and the round spinny thingie and then it slid off to one side
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took the "frontgate" off (I'm coining that term) sucker wouldn't slide all the way out (up or down) until I got one of the sides loose and moved out of the way
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just like with the fleetside, you have to cut the welds in the lower corners of the tailgate in order to take the sides off
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and got the driver side off too
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and pretty soon it all looked like this
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but because the wife don't like to park on the street, it had to look like this
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I also took a stab at the scratch on that fender, and since I don't own a dolly set yet, this is the best I could do for now
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I am seriously wondering if bondo was on sale when they built / painted this thing in the first place, I considered using a hammer and a chisel to get it all off, ha ha
pretty sure I am going to weld in those rectangular holes (they seem to be in a level / flat section and should be pretty easy to patch) and go back to stock taillights Last edited by Gregski; 12-11-2016 at 01:49 AM. |
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Watcha got planned for that Model A frame? A future street rod maybe?
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I knew someone would recognize it and tell us what it is off of. It belongs to Big Al and I think its glory days are over and it found new life as a sort of make shift wheel barrel cart. But thanks again for identifying it, boxing it in would be a fun winter project, then maybe a flatty, hmm coupe or truck, now you got me thinking, so glad this aint no Ford forum or I would be in trouble, ha ha
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