pdx-sanity66

[clemdaddy]

truck work looks good...congrats on newly found freedom, 2 more years for me. also, sounds like a fun plan, cruising around the country seeing the sights.
maybe you could pack a few sanity parts to tinker with, just in case you miss it.

did you get another house? shop? or are you going total mobile lifestyle?

[Jeff La]

Congrats on retirement and the truck is looking good. Hope you can enjoy the traveling and seeing the country.

[Oregon 1967 GMC]

Wow what an update. You have a lot going on. IF you need help moving or anything just give me an email. Looks awesome. You are doing it right that's for sure. Super clean.

Are you putting in air conditioning? Vintage Air?

[pdxhall]

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

truck work looks good...congrats on newly found freedom, 2 more years for me. also, sounds like a fun plan, cruising around the country seeing the sights.
maybe you could pack a few sanity parts to tinker with, just in case you miss it.
did you get another house? shop? or are you going total mobile lifestyle?

Thanks, Clem. Hang in there, that 2 years is going to go fast. You know, I definitely considered taking a few small things with me, but space is limited so I'm going to go 'cold turkey' on the truck for now. That may change down the road. And you never know, I might find something in our travels that I just can't live without.
No house or shop for now. We're selling, donating, or storing everything we own that we're not taking with us and most of what we're storing is my truck and shop stuff.
We'll get another house whenever we get tired of roaming the country.
Maybe we'll make it out your way some day.

Originally Posted by Jeff La

Congrats on retirement and the truck is looking good. Hope you can enjoy the traveling and seeing the country.

Thanks Jeff, I'm going to miss working on my truck but we've been planning this new adventure for a long time.

Originally Posted by Oregon 1967 GMC

Wow what an update. You have a lot going on. IF you need help moving or anything just give me an email. Looks awesome. You are doing it right that's for sure. Super clean.
Are you putting in air conditioning? Vintage Air?

Thanks a lot. It's been a crazy few weeks for sure. No AC for now. I might change my mind by the time I start working on it again, but the original plan was no AC. I do have a compressor that I got with my serpentine belt system so it's not out of the question, I'm just not a big fan of all that extra stuff in the engine bay unless I lived in one of those places where you can't be without it.


I started bolting up the front sheet metal yesterday to make storage easier and I've got a couple of bed parts from Mar-K so I can bolt the bed together.
I'm going to mount the bed on a sheet of plywood for now so I can store stuff in the bed. I'll get a few picture updates later. It's looking more like a truck now than it has for years.

[clemdaddy]

Originally Posted by pdxhall

We'll get another house whenever we get tired of roaming the country.
Maybe we'll make it out your way some day.

hope so, maybe make it our way for the cruise-in. this year its on the 17th
of October. would be fun and we can put you up...

Clem

[pdxhall]

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

hope so, maybe make it our way for the cruise-in. this year its on the 17th
of October. would be fun and we can put you up...

Clem

I'd like to make that happen. We might be around the southeast at that time.
Thanks for the offer.

[pdxhall]

I've been slamming on Sanity trying to get her bolted together as much as possible for storage. It is looking more like a truck than it has for several years. It's very difficult to stop this project right now but well worth it to be able to follow our dream and wander the country for awhile. Here are a few pictures of the progress. I'm pretty happy with the way the panels are aligning up. I made no effort to set the gaps but it's not going to take much work from the looks of things so far.

[Bomp]

Sanity is looking good.
I sure hope we get to drive our trucks to an event sometime in the next few years and park side by side.

[greg65]

Nice progress

[63sbssbbw]

Looking awesome
That is progressing nicely
Trent

[ol_skool_chevy]

whats your plan on a sending unit for this tank....?

[pdxhall]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Sanity is looking good.
I sure hope we get to drive our trucks to an event sometime in the next few years and park side by side.

Thanks Greg, I hope so too. Bolting up the body parts has given me inspiration for when I get back to Sanity.

Originally Posted by greg65

Nice progress

Thanks, man.

Originally Posted by 63sbssbbw

Looking awesome
That is progressing nicely
Trent

Thanks Trent. This is the first time I have seen how the truck's stance will look and I'm very pleased.

Originally Posted by ol_skool_chevy

whats your plan on a sending unit for this tank....?

I'm using after market gauges so I'm using the ford sending unit and ordered the fuel gauge to match.

[pdxhall]

I got the bed together and on Sanity this weekend. I used some plywood for a temporary bed floor so I can take advantage of the bed to store parts in. I plan on putting the hood on tomorrow and then I'll post up some picks.

[Ta2Don]

Wow, it's been a handful of pages since I moseyed over this way...:roll eyes:
Lotsa a great progress… Congrats on the retirement… Sure hope you can make it to Clem's in Oct...

[markeb01]

Congrats on retirement and your plan to have some adventure while you're young and healthy enough. it's easy to become a slave to routine, and miss out on some real living experiences. Good luck with your goals and travels!

[pdxhall]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Wow, it's been a handful of pages since I moseyed over this way...:roll eyes:
Lotsa a great progress… Congrats on the retirement… Sure hope you can make it to Clem's in Oct...

Thanks Don. I hope we can make it too. Joanne has a long lost cousin she'd like to get out that way to see, also, so maybe it will happen.

Originally Posted by markeb01

Congrats on retirement and your plan to have some adventure while you're young and healthy enough. it's easy to become a slave to routine, and miss out on some real living experiences. Good luck with your goals and travels!

Thanks, Mark. We've been planning on this for a long time. It's still hard to believe it's actually going to happen. I'll be keeping up with the forum and I hope to meet up with some of the guys on here as we go.

I've got a few pictures of Sanity just before the trip to the storage unit.

[1milkman]

Awesome build....one question, what are you using for a filler neck/ gas cap for that tank?

[TJ's Chevy]

Nice to see sanity coming back together!

[rusty76]

So cool man. Can't wait to see it back on the road.

[clemdaddy]

sanity in storage... oh well, she'll be waiting.
maybe if you guys get time you will post up an itinerary of your travels so cyber-buddies can meet up with you along the way, just a thought.
be safe out there...

[northern 85]

Yes we want to see that tank finished! Stay safe.

[clemdaddy]

the last we heard here in arkansas was that bomp and murphy were going to make the cruise-in this october... so if you're anywhere near NW Arkansas around the 3rd Saturday in October... stop in... and help represent the great northwest.

[Oregon 1967 GMC]

What's the latest? Still hibernating....

[LostMy65]

What's up? :-)

[pdxhall]

Well it's been 2 years since my last post. We've driven about 60k miles, visited 23 states including Alaska, and BC, NW Territories, the Yukon, and Alberta this last summer. We are in Tuscon right now and we have just bought a home down here to spend 8 months of the year and spend summers traveling to the NW and other places we haven't been yet.
I saved enough on the property that I'm going to build a new shop for Sanity and other future projects. We're heading up to Portland in a few weeks to empty our storage unit, load up the truck to take everything to AZ. The main priority after that is to get the shop built so I can get back to the truck. No more cold wet winters for me.
It's good to be back.