My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck

[kitsbeach]

Originally Posted by Gregski

and now: Dumb Idea of the Day!

lemme know what you think about putting this GT Zero hood scoop over the hood, I am thinking we trim it down some to make it narrower, then slide it forward even with the hood, weld a small blocking plate to the very tip so it's a non functioning ornamental piece and rivet it all the way around airplane style to diss off the purists type a thing

it will cover my shady hood repair that's fer sure

well...you know the saying..."it's your truck to do what you want to do with it"

[CG]

Im only going by what your said about your bodywork skills, do you think you could pull it off and make it look any better than your hood repair?

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by CG

Im only going by what your said about your bodywork skills, do you think you could pull it off and make it look any better than your hood repair?

Excellent point, there's a solid 51% chance that I could!

[Blue GMC]

I don’t know about that one looks like a giant ball and tackle set on the hood to me. But I’ve seen you pull off stuff your can always get a new hood if you don’t like it

[Gregski]

so the craptacular body work continued, the door panels were next

this is the passenger side and I always do the Tejas Two Step on rust removal, abrasives and chemicals, so we start with the wire wheel

[Gregski]

after the wire wheelin' was done we bathed the driver side door panel in some Phosphoric acid from Home Depot (pronounced: "cheap")

[Gregski]

I normally use the KRYLON Semi Flat paint but here I decided to try the glossy stuff

[Gregski]

we filled the pitting with some bondo

[Gregski]

and got em into primer

[Gregski]

I really need to do a better job of sanding prior to paint, I honestly don't know what I was thinking here, these will get redone

[Gregski]

well say what you will about my metal working skills, but there is something to be said for taking a basket case and piecing it all together and taking it camping - this was such a fun weekend (sometime in the summer of 2019 B.C. Before Corona) truck ran great and we climbed to 5,000 feet before heading back down to Ice House lake. We rode two up with a bunch of gear

[Rich84]

Ok. You sucked me in. I'm all caught up.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Rich84

Ok. You sucked me in. I'm all caught up.

AWESUM ! thanks, we are almost done with the first half of the build, the second half will be much more exciting

[Gregski]

the doors were next, and on the passenger side this happened

[Gregski]

well as we were working on the door panels we spotted an anomaly, the driver side door, although it fit perfectly fine, and opened and closed perfectly, was the wrong door, it was a '72 door on a 71 cab.

can you imagine the embarrassment if we let that go at Pebble Beach, we would have an egg on our face

[Gregski]

so we disemblenated it

[Gregski]

and here it is liberated from the cab, now it's hard to see but the outside skin is gone, most of it looks like it's been shot up with a sawed off shotgun and the bottom is rusted out

how I end up with these green trucks i don't know, did no other paint colors exist in the 70s? lol

[Gregski]

so lucky for us we found an amazing 67-72 Chevy truck used parts supplier in town, this couple has converted an old 40 horse stable into a warehouse full of parts, and they are salt of the earth people, that's where we got our new(ish) 71 door for our 71 cab - it even came with hints of green on it

yes that is my other truck Rusty delivering the goods

[Gregski]

but, the new 71 door don't fit proper on the 71 cab, imagine that, so I did the sensible thing and drove the truck back to my mamas house and parked it in her garage, and decided to work on Busty my '54

and that's where it sat for the last two years, so that brings us up to current time, and the possibility of a Dusty Winter Project

[Dieselwrencher]

What did you ever do with the GTzero hood section? I think if you cut the scoops off and put one on each side of the hood that could look cool. Bad deal about the door.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

What did you ever do with the GTzero hood section? I think if you cut the scoops off and put one on each side of the hood that could look cool. Bad deal about the door.

I think I just moved it to the bed of the truck so that I could pop the hood open, and I think maybe Pontiac Mike wants it back, not sure what we are going to do with it, we were just spit ballin', appreciate the suggestion

[zicc1835]

subd

[Gregski]

so I may be my own worst enemy here, advertising these sales to everyone cause man I found a couple of these 90-91 GMC truck cabs picked to da bone, so job well done gentlemen, but dog will hunt!

[Gregski]

and hunt we did, I am sooooo happy though I had to hit 4 junkyards in one day, I did find this beauty in absolutely MINT [junk yard condition] ha ha so now I have a pair, you see I already shoved a set in my '54 aka Busty and had a third seat in desperate need of a mate, so out I went looking for a [ahem] hook up

[Gregski]

I absolutely love these seats, they are the Last of the Mohicans, all manual, no power nothin', no stupid seat warmers no lumbar support, no silly anti Whiplash [I'm looking at you Metallica] head rests, just straight up buckets, with logical simple bracketry, know what I'm sayin' - oh and did I mention this version folds down forward so I can put a banana behind the seat if I felt like it

also I will show the pic later but I bought the outside passenger seat bracket with the slide it back and forth handle so that when I mount two driver side seats in my cab one will have the handle on the opposing side [semi Por Tip for you all right there!] hope we can pull it off

and here is my daughters little Mazda 3 doing Truck Things (kids out of town so I won't tell her if you won't that I borrowed her car to go to the junk yard)