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Re: 68 project
Cant beat new toys and family swinging by to help. Ordered me some rust treatment stuff from Eastwood and couple other things to paint up engine compartment while motor is out. Yours is really coming along.
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Re: 68 project
Finally got some more shop time in today. Was able to get the rear trailing arms and axle housing sand blasted and ready to por.
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Well, the rear axle is all tore down mostly cleaned up should have it painted this weekend and ready for reassembly. What a messy job.
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And of course I have to share the pics of the motor I adopted last night.
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Re: 68 project
nice work....will be following.
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An attempt at shortening a bed side, before and after.
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Wow. Looking good. Your making some serious progress.
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Got it all sand blasted and sprayed down with metal prep. Now time to prime her out and finish welding in the patch panels
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About to get the bottom side finished up, all the floor patches and door pillars are welded in now drivers rocker is installed. Today I painted the whole bottom side with POR 15' now I am thinking about spraying the bottom with rhino liner to protect and help with sound barrier and vibration.
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Looked great today. You do awesome work. Great catching up with you. Man you got me thinking about the mirror thing after we talked today. Tore my parts stash apart and found my old mirror arms gonna put them back on. Thanks for the good advice.
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Nice to see you're back at it. Good work so far.
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Great to see that you're back at it and keeping us updated. Looking forward to maybe seeing this thing in person at a cruise in or something once it's all done!
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Found this older pic on my phone before I decided to go a different direction.
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Black n white
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Show off..... just kidding ....looks good Man, got the engine stands today thanks
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Well I bit the bullet and purchased one of my last big ticket items on the body list, my bed sides, thank you niped, I may be driving "project 68" by next summer after all
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Next summer should be fun? Can't wait to see this to the end. Who knows maybe I'll cruise down in my C10?? I should have it by then?
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I hope to be doing that and driving it down to the shop to work on my 72 project
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just got a chance to go threw your build nice work real nice i wish i had your talent with TIG i have another question when you laid betty on her back on that hoist you weren't worried about scratching or denting her back?
I'm staying in for the ride see who gets to the finish line first ...ha ha
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Started removing the old cowl panel today, no pictures yet but man I thought I had blown all those pesky pine needles out of there, boy was I ever wrong
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