Free Candy Inside: 63 Long Panel Build

[Mjminino]

you got a facebook or anything bro?

[66PANEL]

LOL, cool you had me worried! That thing is really coming along, and looking good! Hopefully I'll see you there and hopefully I'll have my truck there too.

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Originally Posted by 66PANEL

LOL, cool you had me worried! That thing is really coming along, and looking good! Hopefully I'll see you there and hopefully I'll have my truck there too.

That'd be awesome. I'm slowly plugging away at it. Gonna put in a full day today. The ultimate goal is to have the floors in and it pretty much done by April 1st. Then I'm going to try and fix the lower bedside panels, a little bit of paint and be done with it. Hoping to have all that done by March 1st. Get some road time and cruise it to Beatersville. For some reason Beatersville seems like the kickoff to summer car shows for me.

[66PANEL]

Originally Posted by Free Candy Inside

That'd be awesome. I'm slowly plugging away at it. Gonna put in a full day today. The ultimate goal is to have the floors in and it pretty much done by April 1st. Then I'm going to try and fix the lower bedside panels, a little bit of paint and be done with it. Hoping to have all that done by March 1st. Get some road time and cruise it to Beatersville. For some reason Beatersville seems like the kickoff to summer car shows for me.

Yeah I know what you mean, I cant wait either! I don't even have the body on mine lol. Oh, I like the welding helmet, she did good on that one!

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Originally Posted by 66PANEL

Yeah I know what you mean, I cant wait either! I don't even have the body on mine lol. Oh, I like the welding helmet, she did good on that one!

Just got a call tonight about booking a hotel for Sunday night of Beatersville so we can have fun at the show and then stay and party.

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Did some firewall work on the passenger side today. Drivers side matches this and is already done. Still have some crazy wires going on over there so I couldn't get a good pic.

[66PANEL]

Originally Posted by Free Candy Inside

Just got a call tonight about booking a hotel for Sunday night of Beatersville so we can have fun at the show and then stay and party.

Cool, we did that the year I meet you. But we also went the night before and went to the Rev-up, at the Phoenix Hill Tavern, we'll probably do that this year too. It was a blast that building is so big they have 4 bands playing at 1 time! they block most of off during the car show.

[Mjminino]

Looking awesome!

[66PANEL]

Truck is looking good!

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Thanks. Live been the past several years. That place is crazy. It's a good show

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Wheels came back from the sandblaster. Hopefully they will get powder coated this week. Waiting on the powder to get here. Also got my new tires in.

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Continued working on the firewall/floors. Got this far with it. Feel like Im getting closer to putting floors in. Still need my seats to figure out where everything is going to be. Sat my original seat in for now and everything feels like it's in the right spot. Lol.

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Another view. Trying to position the Lokar shifter. Don't really want to do much with it until I get the seats into position.

[Mjminino]

Everything is looking pretty good! I love that sticker

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No real progress. Been busy with school. Hopefully the wheels will be ready tomorrow from powder coating. Hopefully I'll get some done this weekend. I did however fire up my Packard and let it run. Decided to snap some pics while I was at it.

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Wheels!!

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Really wanted wide whites but being a broke teacher those will have to wait. So these will work for now. Hopefully put these on today!

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Borrowed an offroad jack from a buddy to see if I could get the rear of the truck up high enough to swap out the wheels. It worked perfectly. Now I can plan on putting an access panel when I do my floors so that I could change a tire if j ever get a flat. Only issue is that I had to pull on the wheel arches to get enough space to get the wheels in. Don't want to have to do that. Considering going with CaptainFabs Impala disc set up which I think would give me more clearance.

[Ryguy442]

I'm loving this truck!! Have you thought about buffing the sidewalls on your tires and making them wide white walls? Iv done a few sets that turned out ok, I also had a guy I mounted a set for that had the side wall cut on a lathe those where really nice...just a thought.

Ryan

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Originally Posted by Ryguy442

I'm loving this truck!! Have you thought about buffing the sidewalls on your tires and making them wide white walls? Iv done a few sets that turned out ok, I also had a guy I mounted a set for that had the side wall cut on a lathe those where really nice...just a thought.

Ryan

I bought these tires specifically with that in mind knowing I couldn't currently afford wide whites. There's a shop in town that has a machine that they use to cut white walls wider and only charge like $7 a wheel. I took my tires there but the guy said they didn't spin up evenly so he said I had to mount them for a while and that would straighten them out and then bring them back. So that's the plan for now. Their machine does it nice and even and for that price it's not worth the mess. Lol

[Ryguy442]

Wow wish I had dining around here that would to that for $7 a tire! I'd put some on my merc in a heart beat. Well keep up the good work!

Ryan

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Originally Posted by Ryguy442

Wow wish I had dining around here that would to that for $7 a tire! I'd put some on my merc in a heart beat. Well keep up the good work!

Ryan

Thank you sir. For that cheap, I figured it wasn't worth messing with. Just wish I could have it done already. Lol

[gostranger]

I am loving that panel layed out it looks great!!!

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Well not much progress. Had a hard time finding a full set of Honda Element seats that I want to run. They fold down and make a bed so the vehicle becomes kind of a camper. I attempted to get more done but kept running into the issue of not knowing where everything would end up depending on the seats. I finally picked up 4 seats today and roughly put them in place. So far I think they will work well. Note the rear seats have built in cup holders and mount to the side of the truck. They also can fold up against the side for storage purposes.

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Pic of the drivers seat. It actually is about the same dimensions of a factory single panel truck seat.