Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!

[Grizz1963]

Mounting three point safety belts.

Jay "Lugnutz" posted up this tutorial, I think it is great and despite not liking safety belts, I will be fitting a set to my truck.

LINK: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=679368

Just need to find the right donor set.

Where's Martin?

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

Mounting three point safety belts.

Jay "Lugnutz" posted up this tutorial, I think it is great and despite not liking safety belts, I will be fitting a set to my truck.

LINK: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=679368

Just need to find the right donor set.

Where's Martin?

I looked at that last night as well, very good tutorial . I see a trip to the salvage yard coming soon . The trouble with most late cars Rian is, the belt roll is hidden inside the b pillar, so it doesn't have any form of covering on it . So in other words it unsightly . Now to find a set in the UK that's externally mounted .

[Ta2Don]

Horse turned out great… I know Nicola is happy!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Horse turned out great… I know Nicola is happy!

Thnks Don. You get to see it before everyone else with your previews.

I will be honest, I was going to bin it three hours I today.

The welding was a pain too as the metal was so compromised from rust and old age.

Still, it is done.


Nicola gave me the day off, so I thought I would finish up the lame horse first....... Then Truck Time !!

Bloody thing took all day to do.

Welded and bashed some more......



Welded into place.

Nothing special, but it's together.





Missed out the wire brush and spray painting the frame.

Then started brush painting it.



Eventually colour mixing, cutting in etc resulted in this......





Happy to say I brought the lame horse up to the house and Nicola approved.

He has now been squirrelled away in the spare room where nobody gets to go into.

Bootfair in the morning.

[Palf70Step]

That came out great. You are a great craftsman and artist!

[mjh1965]

Rian that looks great . I will take a better look at it tomorrow ,if I pop over .

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

That came out great. You are a great craftsman and artist!

Thanks mate, at a distance everything looks good.

Originally Posted by mjh1965

Rian that looks great . I will take a better look at it tomorrow ,if I pop over .

I prefer you not to look as you will be telling me everything I did wrong.

But thank you anyway.

[65sub]

Nice frame off restoration on the horse Grizz. You sure do find some cool stuff.

[Grizz1963]

Thought I would post up today's Bootfair snags. Some serious bargains.

Centurion Grinding helmet n visor £1.00. (£26.00 online)
Baseballs 20p & 30p
Bat £1.00
Hozelock lawn sprayer 50p (£14.00 online)
Chrome scoop 50p
Hair thingy 20p
8 Ball keyring 10p
Cast iron Beware Dog sign 50p
Roll of nylon webbing 50p
Bollé Safety glasses 10p each. (£10.00 each)
Bottle bath stuff 50p. (£6.00)
Full Stig bottle 20p
Tea mug 50p
Rubberised gloves for guys in scrap yard 6/£5.00 (Priceless)
Red overall for guests 50p ( £20.00)
Onesy/Onezy new for Nicola £1.00. (£10.00)
Trophy for a mate 20p
Topman suede bag £1.00. (£30.00+)
Haynes Golf GTi bag 50p. (£17.00 online)

Nicola got 3 pairs of unused leather shoes £1.00/pair ( around £25.00/pair)
Another nice Great Plains leather handbag like new 50p (Sell for around £60.00)
Vintage sliver charm bracelet with very good qualty charms £4.00
Pair of miniature Toby jugs 50p each
Large purple duck umbrella 50p. (Shops in Carnaby street and Covent Garden £30.00)
Wicker handbag for fancy dress 50p

Just added it all up on conservative values and got to £500.00 full retail.

The amazing thing is half the stuff is not used, and the rest all very good clean quality.

This means my rebuild kit for my trucks front suspension at £260.00 imported, is "Kind of Free"



Close up of charm bracelet, £4.00 not bad.

[flashed]

You find the best stuff ,makes me miss all the good garage sales I have missed this year but more will be starting up soon.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by 65sub

Nice frame off restoration on the horse Grizz. You sure do find some cool stuff.

Thank you.
Guess Frame off is the only way.

Originally Posted by flashed

You find the best stuff ,makes me miss all the good garage sales I have missed this year but more will be starting up soon.

Eyes wide open Flashed.

Easy as that.


The road to hell is paved with good intentions......... And many a truck build.

After yesterday's Horse Play today had a couple of good Bootfairs pencilled in, followed by some chores and then truck time.

Well, neighbour Mickey came home with some old oak gate and fence posts to unload and get to the back storage (wood turning stock)

Then I moved the bike, pulled the truck out and got it up on the jack so that I could start making the battery carrier for the relocated battery.

I decided to try fit the standard battery in, unlike Ian Browns side terminal model, which is a better idea, but would mean buying a new battery.

So I made a cardboard box dummy to be able to hold it up under the truck, without straining very muscle on a real one.



At this point Mickey was back for another half hour chat....... Get the picture on progress?

Just as he had left, Gene who was collecting the second engineers vice that I got this week, arrived.

What a nice guy, he is an old school sign writer and maybe I will be able to get a couple of examples of his work to show some time.

4 hrs just flew by, after which I packed everything up and closed shop to see him off.

This 5.7 Hemi sounded rather juicy with its Borla and twin exit pipes.



That brought an enjoyable weekend to an end, despite the fact I did very little for the truck.

[Ta2Don]

GRIZZ POWER...

[Grizz1963]

Bit quiet on the home front.

But got some Satin Black two pack on the way home tonight.

It will be on the inner fenders, fire wall and all out of sight surfaces. My choice.

So £45.00 for another bit of finishing.

[ibrown50]

Rian, forgive me if I'm telling you something you know already but you'll need a suitable mask for that 2k

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by ibrown50

Rian, forgive me if I'm telling you something you know already but you'll need a suitable mask for that 2k

Ian,the best part about this and other forums is learning from each other.

Thank you for posting up.

I actually have a complete air fed respirator face mask that I bought for the paint and blasting.

I trust it will do the job.

The last car I painted with two pack, was done with no mask 24 years ago, not clever.

[Ta2Don]

What, no pic of the spotlight handle...

time to get after it again mate...

[Grizz1963]

Got a text from Don earlier.

Thanks to Jonathan Hall who had given me a spotlight for the truck a few months ago on the "Paying is Forward" thread for digging around and finding the handle to the spotlight and posting to Don's place to add to the steadily growing pile of parts that need to come back to the UK.



One more thing to get closer to my dream truck with the add ons.

[uber cool]

Originally Posted by ibrown50

Rian, forgive me if I'm telling you something you know already but you'll need a suitable mask for that 2k

But if you roller it no emissions

Independent review a while back if brushed or rollered no air borne mist.

But yes if spraying air fed mask and all skin covered up , ie gloved and sleeves, i use the paper throw away suits and air mask if spraying 2K

[Grizz1963]

Mate Martin popped in on his way to his Bike Club meeting tonight to drop off this gift from Ian Brown,, it had me really laughing or at least chuckling out loud this week when he mentioned it would be in the post.

Thanks Ian !!



Today I felt really guilty at my lack of progress recently, I have been busy bit not doing much truck stuff.

So tonight I gathered all the bits needed to make a relocated battery tray, to be fitted under the passenger seat.
This will open up the engine bay a bit.



Started to cut all the flat bar and angle iron needed and dug out some threaded bar needed for the hold down bracket.



Got this far with the welding when the trigger self destructed again, I really need to buy a replacement for my welder, just don't have any idea what to buy that will work on the welder.

At least the first part of the new battery tray is now welded up.



Hope to find somewhere to buy a replacement trigger tomorrow.

[Ta2Don]

Awesome start on the Battery tray...

Welder issues =

[Justin@EntropyRad]

always a fun read!

[CRGRS 66]

Hey Griz, could you possibly refer me to the posts on the cab lifter you guys built over in jolly old, would like to copy that...
Cheers!

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by CRGRS 66

Hey Griz, could you possibly refer me to the posts on the cab lifter you guys built over in jolly old, would like to copy that...
Cheers!

Hi it's on page 6 and 7 of my build thread and there are better pictures showing the measurements on page 11 hope this helps

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Justin@EntropyRad

always a fun read!

Glad you are enjoying the thread Justin.

I use it as a record for what I get up to as well, and often just chuckle when I look back.


Fetched my stick welder back from Mickey next door who has had it at least three months. I think he forgets.

Cut, measured, cut some more and prepped a bunch of bits, then welded it all together up to a point.

I decided to make my battery top clamp horizontal, rather than vertical. Also to run threaded bar with nuts both ends, and hopefully if I can get a metal sheath, I will cover the threaded bar over.

On the way to work today I popped into a specialist nuts, screws etc shop and bought four domed head bolts to,fit the battery tray onto the chassis with, under the cab.

Loads of photos can probably say it all.

I wanted to try retain my top terminal battery, rather than buy the sexy side terminal model Ian had bought.

Front view



Rear view



Diagonal side view.




Without battery, which is a large size 70a/h model.










Finished off by packing away everything and then painting the first coat of Hammerite.

Next coat 06.00

[Ta2Don]

Nice work mate...