67 cheby's Dropmember build thread (CLOUD 9)

[Dinos63]

sweet ! I am so ready to see the whole truck its going to be killer

[Delmo]

Love the wood color.
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[67cheby]

thanks guys , getting more excited all of the time myself !! Last night we worked on getting the parts ready to start putting everything on my motor , pretty exciting getting parts out that have been in boxes for years, i took a red scuff pad to a pretty polished water pump, alt, and ac compressor last night.....made me a little sick, going for that brushed look on those parts !! LOL, my March pulley system is all powdercoated black so i hope the brushed stuff will break it up a little !

[original-71]

that wood bed is gonna be killer mike

[67cheby]

thank you.....that is the EXACT response i am going for !! LOL

[superflysteiny]

is it done yet

[67cheby]

LOL...not yet ! But....i did just have another sponsor come on board !! If you guys havent seen their stuff check them out http://www.claytonmachine.com/ killer stuff as soon as my parts get here i will share tons of pictures ! Thank you CLAY !

[David67]

I think I'm in love.

[nibs]

Stellar choice on the wood stain! Very different.


So... Who you taking with you to SEMA??? I know a certain someone who would do a damn good job advertising some SLOSH tubz!
*cough cough*

[67cheby]

Bed Wood and Parts is who is getting me in SEMA , will your truck be there ?
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[67cheby]

a few pictures from last night ! trimmed the bed wood down just a hair so it would fit, then decided to make my brake arm match my new gas pedal set up !

[jasonhall]

Nice!!!
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[watahyahknow]

the brakepedal might look even better if you wedge it in between two polished or brushed and holed aluminium plates , you do need to machine a channel in the plates to fit around the original steel or paint the metal part red to stand out in between the sandwish the pedal part itself gets covered so it should look ok as it is

to bad you didnt made a little lip out to inside the bed when you made that raise for the door at the tailgate , if you done that you could've slid the wood underneat it and hide the spacing you have now , you need that spacing for the wood to work a little .
you might still be able to make a covering out of some chrome L profile that goes from the wood down behind the raise
machine the ends of the wood so the L sits level with the floor and use the strips to hold it down

we used to do it somewhat that way when we put loadfloors in big rig trucks layed them flat on the boxprofile screwed them in and cover the end on the doorside with and L profile welded on the box , you could hide a lot of stuff doing it that way and keep the wood from splintering when hit with a forklift

[Dunenutt]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

LOL...not yet ! But....i did just have another sponsor come on board !! If you guys havent seen their stuff check them out http://www.claytonmachine.com/ killer stuff as soon as my parts get here i will share tons of pictures ! Thank you CLAY !

I have no idea what they make, but the home page is awesome!

[tubbedII]

Brake pedal looks good...too bad your sponsor isn't hooking you up with a set of pedals though...they look nice!

[67cheby]

hey...beggars cant be choosers !! i am getting the complete throttle assembly, the brake pedal, a set of interior door handles and a dimmer switch !

[oldman3]

Everything looking good Mike.....Jim

[tubbedII]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

hey...beggars cant be choosers !! i am getting the complete throttle assembly, the brake pedal, a set of interior door handles and a dimmer switch !

Oh wow!! Ya, that's defitely worth it then. Looking at all their parts, I'd love to have ANY of it...the handles are probably the only thing that I could afford...haha

[67cheby]

Yes, i feel pretty lucky, He contacted me and said that their company was looking to get into the truck market and he thought my truck might give him a little exposure in this market !! and of course i said , thank you, thank you , thank you !!! I did give him a couple ideas for some other products for our trucks, i hope they use them !

[funkytechmonkey]

Mike... that is the coolest thing ever... pretty awesome man!! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.

[Slick67]

That looks awesome! Excellent example of making something old, new again! The wood is already lookin great! My strips came in today but I can't scoop em up till Friday.

[Bowtie468]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

Yes, i feel pretty lucky, He contacted me and said that their company was looking to get into the truck market and he thought my truck might give him a little exposure in this market !! and of course i said , thank you, thank you , thank you !!! I did give him a couple ideas for some other products for our trucks, i hope they use them !

That's awesome Mike !!
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[67cheby]

Thanks guys...getting excited less than 2 months to go! And I will be driving her !
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[nibs]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

Bed Wood and Parts is who is getting me in SEMA , will your truck be there ?
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I could only wish... Just need to find a company that likes my build enough to let me show off their goodies

[502ms]

Looking great!
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