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Re: 78 downlow-littledough
Looking good
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Looks great .
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Thanks Scoti
Thanks Rusty 76 Appreciate it Flashed. Thanks to everyone for the positive feedback. I dig it. Gets me motivated to get out there on the weekends and push through this 110* heat. Probably be painted by the time it starts cooling off. got this one backwards.
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well, got a little bit of progress done yesterday. bagged off the cab and shot the cowl, cab door openings, door jambs and inside edges of the front fenders. Whenever I shoot the body colors outside I don't want to worry about trying to get at all these hard to hit areas.
The last pic of the passenger side cowl you can see a reflection of the blue sky and a mountain that's about 10 miles from my house. I am really happy with how this clear lays out. Like glass.
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Liking every thing I see
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Thanks. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. bite at a time.
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Had to lay off the painting process for a bit now to do some final fabrication. Started off by recessing the floor for the 2003 seats to sit on. Dropped it down and put a channel over the frame rail (under the seat so you wouldn't see it). Next came the console which took a bit of head scratching. I had a sub I pulled out of my pro-street car (along with some other stereo stuff) before I sold it 2 years ago. Wanted to install it in the middle so I trimmed it to fit and started moving forward with it. The last section to be done is the middle. I want to build some kind of a shallow tray to hold sunglasses and cell phones as wells a one drink holder on each side.
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Looks good
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Nice Build! I was looking for a thread were someone Z'ed the front of a 73-87 frame and I came along yours. I will hopefully be doing the same to a frame I have. I really like the color combo too.
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Very interesting build. I enjoy seeing the progess. You seem to be very matter-of-fact and it seems to keep you progressing steadily.
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Here are a few pics taken this past weekend when I was finally able to put the bed back on and fabricate mounts for my fuel cell.
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couple more pics for you pic junkies
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Nice, looks like a truck again. How much do you think you will have into just the suspension work with bags etc. Trying to figure out about how much I need to save up going with the Zeed frame like you did. Can't wait to see it finished.
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Truck is looking wicked cool.
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I think all in around $1000. That's including plating steel, welding wire/gas, etc.
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Thanks Rusty76. That's the look I was after. I think it is heading in the right direction for the vision I had in my head this whole time.
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What did you decide to do with the rear suspension? It looks like you have the 4 link bars welded to the pumpkin? I know you talked about changing it but it looks like you haven't yet? Thanks
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Looking good. I think other than the 6 inch Z (I would have went a few inches less) your build is great.
For welding to the pumpkin, did he mig or tig it? What filler did he use if he tigged it? Im doing a 3 link this weekend. It would make it way easier to weld it to the pumpkin rather than build a bridge over it to weld to. Not sure which way I want to go.
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Little progress today on my console. Trying to blend it in so you can't tell it's multi piece and also install a tray to hold my cell phone and sunglasses. The tray will lift in and out so it can sit on top of the upholstery work. Not much, but i'll take it. Actually worked on my El Camino most of the day buy finally got on my love for a couple hours
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Well shoot Wayne, I always enjoy your builds and just found this one. Enjoyed catching up with what you have going here. Very cool and creative! Will be tagging along for the rest.
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