Project Grande Slam: Coley's Hot Rod Shop

[NewType72]

lovin the wood and the buckets look awesome man!

[XxCHEVYMANxX]

Nice choice on the wood, It will compliment the truck well. plus the bonus of $ saved.

[lolife99]

The seats look great!
How much did you end up lowering them?
Any pics of the modified brackets, themselves?

[CC69Rat]

Thanks for all the compliments. I'm pretty stoked about getting it finished up. I just need to get door panels and upper trim and I think the interior is close to finished. Tank cover, maybe new door handles, etc.

Keith, the driver's side brackets are from an original bench seat. The seat was lowered (pretty sure) he told me .75 in the back and 1in in the front .. maybe vise versa. Dad did it, honestly I'm not sure.

The billet adapters are cut from three seperate blocks at .25" height per block. His thinking being the more blocks you add, the lower the seat goes. It's pretty cool actually. I think maybe the original truck brackets were adjustable (?) Not sure .. but just a lowered seat height for me helped more than anything. Adjustability just because we wanted to try and make it work. I'll try to get some pictures.

I'm going to pick up some SPAR varnish tonight and we'll work on the bedwood and some minor rust repair tomorrow. We just need to get the bedsides and tailgate ready for paint and throw it all back together. We have polished stainless strips for the wood floor, I bought from Mike Losh when he went to hidden fasteners.

Should be pretty cool when it's finished.
I'll post pics as we progress.

[CC69Rat]

The bed is off and completely apart.. Ill post pictures asap. We got a lot done today.
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[CC69Rat]

Just some pics .. You can see the lowered driver's bucket seat in the picture. We're working on the pass side, right now it just has a regular blazer bracket on it. We're working on cleaning up the rear frame rails and painting, etc.

One of my wheels came today. I think maybe they got split up in shipping, I should get the other one tomorrow.

I can't wait to get it on the ground

[VA72C10]

Cool! Frame looks very clean. You going to paint it up while you have the chance or leave it since it might make you want to lift the cab off

[shawno72]

Here comes the fun part

[Bennett68C10]

Nice Chad, those wheels look awesome.

[shawno72]

Is that a Galaxy in the garage?

[big_al_71]

looking great chad. those wheels are very nice..

[Tinkermc]

very nice

[Rusbuilt]

Man I'm getting in on this thing late! Awesome truck, I love it! Wheels are gonna look sweet friend!

[CC69Rat]

ShawnO - 1966 Ford Fairlane GTA 390/335hp Springtime yellow, black buckets, GT500 wheels and redlines. .. matching numbers. My Grandmother bought the car new. Pop restored it about 15yrs ago. Beautiful car..

[NewType72]

Love those old Fairlanes gourgeous years. anywho that was very odd that you only received one wheel hopefully they didn't send the other three off to another address... wait is that the UPS truck outside my house??

[CC69Rat]

Playing around with some Photoshop today ..

ahhgh ! I can't wait! -- (It's kinda rough, I ran out of time)

[superflysteiny]

Originally Posted by CC69Rat

Playing around with some Photoshop today ..

ahhgh ! I can't wait! -- (It's kinda rough, I ran out of time)

Sure looks familiar
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[67cheby]

oh yea.....!

[big_al_71]

Chad let me help you out with an actual picture of a set of billets and aired out without hacking up the truck.
There is nothing better looking than a lowered c10 with a bad ass set of billet wheels.

[VA72C10]

Gonna be sweet!

[Zoomin]

Chad, I'm not sure I'd go the "Big N Little" route.
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[CC69Rat]

. Just to get an idea on the front. I didnt have a picture of the wheels with a tire on them. .. all I could do is the front.
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[CC69Rat]

Eric -- UPS has lost one of the wheels. PM sent

[shawno72]

Originally Posted by CC69Rat

Eric -- UPS has lost one of the wheels. PM sent

Noooooooooo!!!!

[bigguy69]

What?!
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