'64 chevy 2wd to 4wd

[dieseldawg142]

when the wife got home tonite, she was not impressed with me cutting up a new 40 buck model, was going to slap me up the side of my head if i wasted it....dodged a bullet....i think...
lots of cutting & sanding & then more sanding, & then i got a load of sanding ahead of me yet. actually missed the proper length by a 1/16", according to my rmr crew model i'm a bit short...

[caminokid]

I just seen this. I have been doing autocad on the computer and coming up with different things.

The colors on the 64 was close to what I was doing except how was doing the colors. Here is what I was doing. This one is a 66

[Ol Blue K20]

I think it looks great. I didn't notice the blobs but a lot of nice detail work....

[dieseldawg142]

thanks Dale!
been doing some box work
one problem is the front of it is open (shortbox in the top left) allowing the fenders to bow in & not line up with the cab, as seen on this one i did about 10 yrs ago, which i'll haft to fix now....


so i added a 1/16" front to the box, after i heated the sides & bent them to line up with the cab. almost exactly the length of this chev longbox. also added some styrene around the inner fenders, if you look at the first pic of the box you can see how lame they were...


lines up much better with the cab now

[dieseldawg142]

dont like the way it's lifted, blocks under the spring hangers-cheezy
cut the leaf packs off, will scratch some new ones, diff covers look like nothing i've ever seen, just happened to have 2 D60 covers, & the axles are way narrow, the tires just make it to the body, now they stick out a bit for that bulldog look. all rough right now, lots of sanding & filling to do...


started putting together a 454 & stretched out the frame

[dieseldawg142]

waiting for the body, axles & block to dry (primer & filler), staring at it & decided it needs a canoe. kinda modeled it after an old coleman canoe i had.
only piece of .015 styrene i have, got some nice dents & creases in it, & instead of a scale 14 footer, this piece is only big enuff for a scale 13 ft

some scissor work & a bend

some super glue

and some seats & interior ribbing
took me a little over an hour to scratch it up

have to make a rack now

[Ol Blue K20]

You sure make the canoe look easy. Looking good.

[dieseldawg142]

it REALLY was easy Dale, just like cutting out snowflakes at school-but....i have now spent about 3 hrs muddin' & sandin" & muddin' & more sanding. like i said, that .015 had a lot of dents & creases in it, once i primed it, it looked like an old aluminum canoe someone beat up with a rock (and it's supposed to resemble a fiberglass canoe....)


we finally caught a break in the weather & have crammed 3 weeks of work into 4 days, so not a lot of progress....untill today, another 2-3 inches of rain
axles mostly done, some work on the 454, & just started mounting the fr springs

[dieseldawg142]

yeah, it's not a truck, but my 10 yr old son has been working on this for 6 months. he lost the .30 cal gun & the wind kinda went out of his sails for a few months. the other day i made a quick hatch cover to go over the hole, & he's all gung-ho again. last nite he sprayed his first model (first two he brush painted), & he cant wait until tonite to paint the guns, seat boards & install the treads


he built the entire thing, all i did was make a hatch for it & helped him square up all the body pieces, rest of it is all him, even all those stupid little tread rollers.... (i try NOT to help him if i can help it....)


couple pics of the "mini-master" at work

[dieseldawg142]

little more done, another typical gm interior....


almost got the susp. done


de-chromed the chrome spokes & turned them into white spokes, should give a good contrast to the paint, rootbeer brown

[dieseldawg142]

just finishing up the plug wires on the 454.
and my boy got his guns painted & treads on, will let the paint cure a couple days then decal it up & weather it some if he wants

[Ol Blue K20]

The tank is looking pretty good so is the interior. We finally got some rain here and snow at my cabin..

[dieseldawg142]

yay! your drought maybe coming to an end Dale? was reading somewhere like how it's been 3 yrs there with hardly anything. which is funny because most of our rain comes up from the south on tropic currents....
with christmas & doing all the fam-damily stuff, my longbox has been kinda simmering lately. off work for a week, so i'd like to try get it cleaned up 'fore the new yr.
454 is pretty much done (bb exhaust Dale)


susp. almost there, need to put the shocks on, steering gear, brake lines & u-bolts


didn't like the size of the canoe, so...

[dieseldawg142]

just finished digging threw a box of junk & found this, forgot all about it (was debating about using it on the '64 )
thinking i mite de-chrome the bumpers & mirrors, paint 'em white to match the rims....

[dieseldawg142]

was hoping to finish it this weekend, had a primer fiasco....
had enough good stuff to do the box, used some other crap for the cab & hood-big mistake.....top coat kept on cracking & hazing, so i chucked it in the stripping tank.
gave me a chance to fix & replace the drip rails & rear window trim (my eyes, missing all kinds of stuff lately....)


keeping with a basic truck theme, chrome had to go. filled the turn signals, pushbar holes, & added a piece of checkerplate to the r bumper


added some fender braces


at least i got one thing done....

[dieseldawg142]

i'll clear the bed when i do the rest of the body...real rubber bed mat

[Ol Blue K20]

It's looking great, nice job on the bumpers. I've enjoyed watching all your builds this year and looking forward to next year. I hope your holidays went well. I met my oldest daughter, son in law and 4 year old grand daughter at my cabin. I enjoyed watching them play in the snow while I had sat on the porch and stayed warm....

[dieseldawg142]

thanks Dale!
yeah, grand kids are awesome. sounds like you had a good time with the family.....porch IS a good place to be...
last one of '014 (1/4 to 10 on the west coast)

[dieseldawg142]

....couple more




happy new year!

[dieseldawg142]

woo-hoo!....
first project of the new yr, some oars....

[Ol Blue K20]

That thing looms awesome! The canoe looks just like a Coleman. Then you have the decal to top it off. I like the white trim on the the truck, kinda gives it the tough work truck look. The 2015 oars look great too. HAPPY NEW YEAR! !!!

[dieseldawg142]

thank you Dale!
i had a coleman ram-x canoe, but it was orange-ish, didn't think it would look good on a brown truck, so went coleman green.
wow, can you belive it's 2015 now, sounds like buck rodgers time or something....
will be taking a break from building trucks for a bit. our hobby shop was sold out a lot for the holidays, so my wifey bought me for christmas the gmc snowplow truck & a '70 chevelle, & my son bought me an impala, out of his own money, so i pretty much HAVE to build it, he kept asking me the last few days if the longbox was done yet....
need to brush up on cars, only built 1 or 2 in the last few yrs (done too many, they just dont do it for me anymore...)
will give me a chance to finish gathering stuff for the peterbilt, & i'd like to find another box to make the snowplow a longbox, & stepside fenders so i can make it a 1 ton 4by dually...
foose impala, not really my style....big rims, rubberband tires....
same with the chevelle, already have 2 stock '70 ss454's....


yeah, call me a relic, old school, whatever.... jacked in the back, & the front bumper scraping the ground. impala is getting a blown 327 & a nice 2-tone paint job.
chevelle is going to be a rough street bruiser, funky baldwin motion hood is gone with a tunnel ram 454....


i will be back, building trucks in a month or so once these 2 are done

[Ol Blue K20]

I'm old school too, i graduated in the70's. My Chevelle had a "slight rake". I ran 10" Cragers with N50 tires in the rear and skinnies up front....man styles sure change....lol

[dieseldawg142]

well, dont know if anybody is in to cars, i much prefer trucks myself, but because my son bought it, i had to build it....
pretty much box stock. just plumbed & wired the motor, added a 6-71 & hood scoop & modified the fr & rr susp to sit where i wanted it to. the tailpipes are scratched & the goodyear drag radials are some resin tires i ordered.
paint is duplicolor electron blue pearl (??!, big name for blue....)
call this junker MYTMOUSE




swapped the snowplow from the revell gmc for another box, so i can build another longbox, have not had any luck finding a set of chevy stepsides fenders so i can make it a dually. just been throwing this out there where i can, if anybody has a set of theses fenders, new, used, aint picky, got tons to trade, or buy....

[dieseldawg142]

can you say rake?.....

seems like every '64 you see is either stock or a lowrider hydraulic hopping thing....not for me