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Original 66 painted grill |
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1 | 20.00% |
64-66 C60 painted grill |
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2 | 40.00% |
an original aluminum grill that needs to be restored |
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2 | 40.00% |
the repo aluminum grill that is now available |
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0 | 0% |
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#851 |
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Re: pdx-sanity66
This is and a few others are getting me excited to get back at mine, been a while, life happens..... anyways, thanks for the motivation!! Looking good sir!
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Re: pdx-sanity66
Excited to see the colors soon. Looking great. Prep always sucks but man it's sure worth it. I need to get out and get a bunch or parts cut and buffed for winter. lol
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Your paint work looks great TJ. I agree that good preparation is necessary. I am not going to paint the truck but I am looking for a painter right now. I know very little about putting down color and I've got enough invested in the truck to not risk messing it up.
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Re: pdx-sanity66
I took a couple of days off on Sanity to do some chores and errands around our place. Sanity is back outside and I'm ready to get back at it. The passenger door is finished as far as I dare go and is back on the truck and aligned pretty well. I need to raise it up about 1/8". The pass. fender is ready to put back on, just waiting for the cowl extension. Both of the cowl extensions, the cowl, and the driver door and fender will get a little more epoxy on some small spots that I got over zealous and sanded to bare metal. They are all in the paint booth and will get sprayed today.
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The body parts are back together for the last time until paint. Both doors, fenders, cowl extensions, and cowl are on and most of the alignments done. I have a few small adjustments to the cowl extensions and the hood still needs some finish sanding and adjustment but it is together. The roof and side panels are ready for paint. The next thing to do is the bed. I need to take care of a couple of small dings in the tailgate.
I also got my bed kit delivered from Mar-K and I just had to open the boxes and take a look at the white oak. I love it. I got Sanity out and cleaned off the dust.
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Re: pdx-sanity66
It already looks good now, I can't wait to see it in final color
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Re: pdx-sanity66
looking very sharp - nice to get everything lined up and squared away before paint - that light timber will look great in the bed...
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Re: pdx-sanity66
Yep I like the white oak the best.
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Re: pdx-sanity66
Looking Sexy there sir!! I hope to be back on the "66 soon. The "69 is almost wired up and ready to fire up. Then, on to the "66. But damn nice work here sir!
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I wanted something light and I fell in love with it. I hope it all works out. I have very little experience with wood finishing and I'm trying to decide on finish. Any recommendations are welcome. Quote:
I've got the alignment of the doors, cowl, cowl extensions, fenders and hood all aligned pretty good for now and I'm ready to spray some high build in the hood sides and front. I got my seam sealer delivered so I will prepping and spreading seam sealer on the roof channels today. Then starts the bed wood install so I can measure and mark the holes I need to drill. Oh, and I have been working on restoring my window crank assemblies. They had a lot of surface rust and some very light pitting on one of them. I soaked them in CLR and water for about 3 days They came out great. I've got new rollers ordered fir them.
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On the wood, I made the mistake of not using a good sealer when I put new wood in. After about a year, the color dulled and just overall looked sad compared to what it was when fresh. I finally decided to pull the wood back out, sanded it down, and reapplied the same stain/sealer combo I had used before. The second time around, with about 2 years or so of sun damage, led to the color of the wood being darker. I actually like the darker color in my application. The stain I used was a pecan color.
To finish it off the second time, I used a generous helping of Spar Urethane. That sealed the wood up nicely, and after a year of sitting in GA weather, I haven't noticed any change in the color of the wood
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It's been about 3 weeks since I last posted but things have been moving along. ai have been working on aligning all the gaps to a reasonable point that I know now that it's all working together. A couple of very slight adjustments to the driver door but I just don't want to remove the fender and cowl extension at this point. I have also seam sealed the roof channels which is something I had almost forgot about. My thinking the roof was ready for paint was incorrect. Now it's ready for paint. The hood and cowl were the most difficult to get aligned. The center couple of feet of the hood to cowl was too close when I got everything else aligned. I finally decided that the cowl was twisted and just kind of off. I vaguely remember when I was taking the truck apart that the cowl seemed a little tweaked. I just couldn't get it right, so I took the one off of the C60. It is in very good shape so a last minute change is to get it stripped, primered, and installed. It fits way better than the old one.
I've also been working on the tailgate and getting the bed aligned. I'll try to post a little more frequently and show more of my progress.
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I used Epiphanes (epifanis) on my wood, a Dutch marine finish. It's not cheap and much work. But I expect it will be worth it?
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I'm going to try and get Sanity cleaned up a bit before proceeding and then it's time to work on the bed and get the holes marked for drilling.
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Looking good. Getting very close now.
I use the Minwax Helmsman Spar Urethane mainly because its available at the local hardware store. 6 coats on top 4 on bottom, with 180 sanding in between. The thing that got the best results was to apply with a foam brush. |
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I've been putting off doing some media blasting. I enjoy the blasting, but I hate setting up and cleaning up afterwards. I have a few parts that I accumulated and I'm needing a few of them now. I have the cowl and front grill from my C60 done. Today I hope to finish up the inside door panels and a bit more on the rear inner fenders. I was busy cleaning up last night, so I'll post up some pics later.
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Here's the cowl and C60 bumper all clean and pretty. I still can't believe how nice these are. just 2 small dings on the grill. I'm running low on media so I'm going to get some more today. I've got the 2 inner fenders about half done and I haven't started on the 2 inside door panels. I hope to get done shopping and do more blasting this afternoon. The last is my tailgate that I'm working on.
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I got all of the media blasting done which also includes the inside door panels and the rear wheel tubs. I got all that mess cleaned up and then yesterday I got some epoxy sprayed on everything. I think they all turned out great. The next thing is to install the cowl and the rear wheel tubs. with the wheel tubs done I can start installing the bed wood to mark the holes that need to be drilled. I am also going to start work on adding the "CHEVROLET" to the grill.
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I have finished prepping the roof for paint and I am looking for somebody locally to paint it. Then I can get the windshield and rear window installed. I really need to get this done so I can drive Sanity and get the front end aligned and test out the mechanicals. I would REALLY like to drive the truck a little before committing to paint the rest of truck. Does anybody know a painter in the Tucson area that I could contact?
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PM'd you on Tucson painters.
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Thanks for the leads, I'll check them out
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