Project Penicillin~ 68 crewcab build up!

[Buckeye Puller]

Love this truck!!! It looks awsome!!!

[mcbassin]

Awesome build! Thanks to whoever put the link on the general forum. I just spent the last 3 hours checking this thread out.

[litew8]

No offense to the **FRANKENSTEINS** out there, but damn, your truck takes 1st. Nice color.

[1985-GMC]

I just read through this whole thread, nan this thing is nice! Great job!

[extd56]

Thanks, I took it to a car show last weekend and got 1ST place in the truck category.

[1985-GMC]

I bet it was an easy win too.

btw: that was supposed to say "man" in my last post.

[extd56]

Originally Posted by 1985-GMC

I bet it was an easy win too.

btw: that was supposed to say "man" in my last post.

Actually I get a lot of people that wonder why it is not slammed on the ground
with a set of 22's on it with a vortec motor. I was told at a Goodguys show that if I decided to lower it and make it a 2WD he would shoot it for a magazine but could not sell the 4x4.

[mosesburb]

Originally Posted by extd56

Actually I get a lot of people that wonder why it is not slammed on the ground
with a set of 22's on it with a vortec motor. I was told at a Goodguys show that if I decided to lower it and make it a 2WD he would shoot it for a magazine but could not sell the 4x4.

NOT worth it. This thing pegs out the cool-o-meter just as it sits right now. It deserves every first place it gets. They don't want it in their mag?? Meh, their loss, not yours.

[MrBeast]

Originally Posted by extd56

Actually I get a lot of people that wonder why it is not slammed on the ground
with a set of 22's on it with a vortec motor. I was told at a Goodguys show that if I decided to lower it and make it a 2WD he would shoot it for a magazine but could not sell the 4x4.

And they wonder why the print industry is in trouble...

[1985-GMC]

Well some people just don't know what cool is. That would not only make the truck almost useless, it would also make it ugly as hell.

[woodwright]

Its cause you in Cali yo. Around here, the lowered trucks are rare an people walk right by. A truck like yours would be a huge hit. Especially if it had a Cummins. :-)
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[Tinkermc]

I just read the entire post, great build, craftmanship is top notch and kudos to him, should give up his day job and make more people happy. Mayco did a good job on the paint. would be very proud to call this mine, would you like my house as a trade?

[extd56]

Here is a youtube video of a show in Napa Ca last year that my truck was in.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/iS88qhv...yer_detailpage

[FRENCHBLUE72]

Pretty cool little show good to see they picked out your truck..

[71cheynne402]

I saw this on instagram today.

[70rs/ss]

I am amazed, but like he says, we all have it in us we just need to do it. I have a buddy that works at the University of Arizona and he is a magician with metal. He designed and made the wheels that are on the Mars Rover, (yeah, he's that good) but he started just like us (well if we all started in Aerospace for Lockhead Martin?!). He drives a 65 Chevy truck and works on it regularly. I love sheetmetal and I am a certified welder (long line of them, my grandfather was a Machinist in Oil City, PA, my dad was an Iron worker in OH and my late brother was a pipe fitter in OH as well). But I went a different route (I am a principal at an elementary school) they never saw it coming!? I love this stuff, but do it and you'll all find out with some practice, and patience you can all do and then you'll never pay a body man $90 an hour!! I replaced the rear quarter on my 70 Camaro in my one car garage, with determination, a spotweld cutter and a 110 mig from Sears, not perfect, but better than it was and better than the factory did it. I am with you guys though time is my enemy and finding a metal master like Kevin is the way for most of us, if only he was closer!! Well, I'll just order the rockers, inner and outer, and the floor pieces and I'll pittle with the cutoff wheel over the next few weekends and I'll get some picts. Just do it, and if it doesn't work, do it again, I am not taking away from Kevin, but like he said he just tried it and read and tried some more, great advice. I am dying for more, because you are building the X-cab I have been invisioning for years. Excellent work, look forward to more inspiration.

[1967k30]

Any more updates?

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by 70rs/ss

I am amazed, but like he says, we all have it in us we just need to do it. I have a buddy that works at the University of Arizona and he is a magician with metal. He designed and made the wheels that are on the Mars Rover, (yeah, he's that good) but he started just like us (well if we all started in Aerospace for Lockhead Martin?!). He drives a 65 Chevy truck and works on it regularly. I love sheetmetal and I am a certified welder (long line of them, my grandfather was a Machinist in Oil City, PA, my dad was an Iron worker in OH and my late brother was a pipe fitter in OH as well). But I went a different route (I am a principal at an elementary school) they never saw it coming!? I love this stuff, but do it and you'll all find out with some practice, and patience you can all do and then you'll never pay a body man $90 an hour!! I replaced the rear quarter on my 70 Camaro in my one car garage, with determination, a spotweld cutter and a 110 mig from Sears, not perfect, but better than it was and better than the factory did it. I am with you guys though time is my enemy and finding a metal master like Kevin is the way for most of us, if only he was closer!! Well, I'll just order the rockers, inner and outer, and the floor pieces and I'll pittle with the cutoff wheel over the next few weekends and I'll get some picts. Just do it, and if it doesn't work, do it again, I am not taking away from Kevin, but like he said he just tried it and read and tried some more, great advice. I am dying for more, because you are building the X-cab I have been invisioning for years. Excellent work, look forward to more inspiration.

It's good to know we have an educator of our youth w/a 'can do' attitude. One good mentor can inspire many youth!
Kudos to you!

[70rs/ss]

Originally Posted by SCOTI

It's good to know we have an educator of our youth w/a 'can do' attitude. One good mentor can inspire many youth!
Kudos to you!

Thank you, it is nice to be appreciated. I have the best job in the world, I get paid in smiles and occasionally I get a compliment from someone, sometimes from a former student. I was all fired up after reading and posting as the temps had climbed into the high 60's-low 70's, but now it is snowing!? It has been going off and on for two days and isn't supposed to stop til Sunday, so somebody post picts of warm weather and more sheetmetal work!

[Dano69c10]

PICS, PICS, I need a fix!

[Rokcrln]

And we are back!! Spent about 8hrs today working on the window chanels on the door and getting the window regulator all set up.

Ok for some info on the different pic's.
The door I used for the 4th door was a truck drivers side front. This had a few changes that had to be addressed like where the vent window is on the front door it had a narrowed section that had to be removed for the window glass and weather stripping. Then the rear of the door window rails had to get a narrowed area for where the fixed glass is located in the 3rd and 4th doors. Then the rear area had to get a false bottom welded in it for support of the fixed glass. Then after some time with the window regulator we had a working window. We were looking at changing the angle of the fixed post but by using the Burb doors their just is not enough room to have the window move straite up and down. The window is designed to move slightly towards the rear as it drops in order to miss the hinge reinforcing area. If this was going to be a show truck we would have removed the hinge reinforcing area to get the window angel changed. But since this is a daily driver we did not want to jeperdize the structure since his grand son will be slamming this door quit a bit.

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[Rokcrln]

Also we hade to section the bottom of the door panel area with the section from a 3rd door. For some reason they made the front door panel area and the rears different so to make it all look stock we had to cut and chop.

Since this door is made up of 7 pieces already we felt one more was not going to hurt anything. We had to section the bottom door panel are to get it to all lign up corectly. I still have a bit of work to finish up on the door but this is enough for today.

See I told all of you the door would be slow going. But it is all this detail work that will really pay off in the end.

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[extd56]

I installed the trim on the tailgate and the white letters too. Thanks to Mark-K for the tailgate trim pieces that fit great and look even better.