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Old 10-04-2021, 08:18 AM   #126
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMC a Mother & Son Project

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
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Old 10-04-2021, 09:00 AM   #127
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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
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Old 10-04-2021, 09:02 AM   #128
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after the wire wheelin' was done we bathed the driver side door panel in some Phosphoric acid from Home Depot (pronounced: "cheap")
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Old 10-04-2021, 09:04 AM   #129
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I normally use the KRYLON Semi Flat paint but here I decided to try the glossy stuff
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Old 10-04-2021, 09:08 AM   #130
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we filled the pitting with some bondo
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Old 10-04-2021, 09:08 AM   #131
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and got em into primer
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Old 10-04-2021, 09:09 AM   #132
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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
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Old 10-05-2021, 09:43 AM   #133
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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
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Old 10-05-2021, 11:09 AM   #134
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMC a Mother & Son Project

Ok. You sucked me in. I'm all caught up.
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Old 10-05-2021, 11:11 AM   #135
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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
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Old 10-06-2021, 08:31 AM   #136
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the doors were next, and on the passenger side this happened
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Old 10-06-2021, 08:36 AM   #137
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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
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Old 10-06-2021, 08:37 AM   #138
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so we disemblenated it
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Old 10-06-2021, 09:28 AM   #139
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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
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Old 10-06-2021, 09:50 AM   #140
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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
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Old 10-06-2021, 09:55 AM   #141
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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
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Old 10-07-2021, 07:47 AM   #142
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Re: My Dusty 71 GMC a Mother & Son Project

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.
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Old 10-07-2021, 08:22 AM   #143
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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
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Old 10-08-2021, 08:38 PM   #144
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Old 10-08-2021, 10:11 PM   #145
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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!
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Old 10-08-2021, 10:16 PM   #146
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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
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Old 10-08-2021, 10:21 PM   #147
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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)
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Old 10-09-2021, 11:19 AM   #148
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so here are some pics of that opposing symmetrical bracket that will put the knob on the outside like on the driver's side
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Old 10-09-2021, 11:21 AM   #149
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and here we see how the 91 seat folds forward (the 90s seats don't do this) I mean it ain't all the way flat, but it's not like we're going to be transporting drum sets in there

now I wonder if the other seat does that? I forgot what year it came out of? and since I had 3 of them I probably mixed them up anyway... great!
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Old 10-09-2021, 11:35 AM   #150
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and here are The Blues Brothers side by side

I washed the one on the right and boy you can sure tell the difference!

so just so happened as I was driving back home with Thing 2 the other day that the car in front of me had them back window phone number advertisement for automotive upholstery so I jotted it down and texted them this morning, let's see if they can do these babies in black leather with gray stitching for less than $600 each (fingers crossed)
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