1972 Cheyenne Super Short Fleet Big Block build!

[VA72C10]

Originally Posted by gcburdic

Zoomin'....does this interior picture look familiar???.... I think VA72C10 is watching and is being inspired by your ebay link

Originally Posted by Zoomin

I completely missed putting the two together. When I saw the pic in this thread I thought it looked familiar....

I actually had that saved to track it before I saw the thread
Wanted to see how much a lightly resto-modded one would sell for....

[VA72C10]

Got a good amount done today. As mentioned, I got the rest of the items stripped out of the cab and firewall. Got the passenger door off, gutted the driver's door, took off the saddle tanks, and got some more grinding done. Well, mostly my BIL did...

[VA72C10]

Passenger door off



Firewall clean...still sanding....



This is the sticker on the driver's door


My brother in law hard at work


Gotta get that last bit sanded now that the handle's off


Picture I took with my free hand as I ground the heads off the bolts for the saddle tank


Saddle tank



Inside bed panels...nice and clean


Wheel arch ..... no rust




underside of bed floor.... no rust



Passenger door frame and most of dash down to bare metal

[67chevy1series]

very clean reminds me of my sanding the cab days! i have the same rinder it has done me and my dad good since 1999!

[heeroyue2002]

harbor freights Chicago grinders? mine outlasted my dewalt! good job on the glasses! i had a wire wheel grab the top part of my hand, they also like to shoot little wire shrapnel.

[VA72C10]

Originally Posted by 67chevy1series

very clean reminds me of my sanding the cab days!

thanks. it's going well... a few spots but nothing a little metal can't fix

Originally Posted by heeroyue2002

harbor freights Chicago grinders? mine outlasted my dewalt! good job on the glasses! i had a wire wheel grab the top part of my hand, they also like to shoot little wire shrapnel.

Yep, used them for three builds now over 2 years and still going strong. I have one with the wire cup and one with the stripping disc. Total investment for 2- $10

Although I will say my buddy has two dewalts he has had for like 6 years and uses basically daily. And he got them for like 50 each on clearance so they have been a good deal also...

I used safety glasses, ear plugs and a mask. He opted for the science class goggles because he kept fogging his glasses too bad to see. And he just turned up the music loud enough to drown out the grinder. kids....when will they learn....

[VA72C10]

Oh, and on the schrapnel... I have pictures of that...on my first build. One wire cup was throwing them horribly. Was impaled by probably a hundred....had tiny dots all over my legs and several that went through my jeans and into my skin!!!

[PHAT TONY]

This is lookin really good ,but I gotta say I'm looking for a 2wd Blazer build with your name attached!

[VA72C10]

Originally Posted by PHAT TONY

This is lookin really good ,but I gotta say I'm looking for a 2wd Blazer build with your name attached!

I would LOVE to do one. Hopefully down the road I can!

[gcburdic]

Originally Posted by VA72C10

I would LOVE to do one. Hopefully down the road I can!

Oh great.....Jonathan...stay focused!!!

[VA72C10]

Originally Posted by gcburdic

Oh great.....Jonathan...stay focused!!!

Don't worry. I have no choice but remain focused on this one!

Notice I said...hopefully down the road....not even on my radar at the moment.

After I finish and sell this truck I will be looking for a cheap DD (67-72 truck) to fix up and use around the house and will at the same time look for my next project...that will be whatever I can get for the least that will be worth the most when finished for the least amount of money....make sense?

[RCbowtie69]

well Jonathan,looks like you are getting there,making good progress,keep pictures coming & keep on truckin''

[Zoomin]

that will be whatever I can get for the least that will be worth the most when finished for the least amount of money....make sense?

Sure does to me. Clue me in on what that is, would ya?
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[VA72C10]

Originally Posted by RCbowtie69

well Jonathan,looks like you are getting there,making good progress,keep pictures coming & keep on truckin''

Thanks. Got an hour or so working on it earlier this afternoon then had to head out for a bit. Now gotta work on some tach dashes so I can buy some more parts

Originally Posted by Zoomin

Sure does to me. Clue me in on what that is, would ya?
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I'll tell you when I find it


Pictures of today's progress later...

[VA72C10]

daylight pic of where we stopped last night


got the inside of the door jamb super clean


gonna have two big patches on the bottom of the window but it's ready now...


still working on the roof. Keep swapping between the two grinders to make sure I don't overheat either....



love this wire wheel....took out all the seam sealer in the drip rails and was great around the back window, inner door parts, and door jambs


drip rail


side drip rail



Hope to make good progress tomorrow. Plan to finish the roof and driver's door sanding depending on time/activities....

[ccracin]

Lookin good. Man that's a dirty job, but I guess somebody has to do it as they say! When you're done there send your brother in law over! I am dreading that. Keep up the great work.

[VA72C10]

Definitely a dirty job. Going to get back out there in a bit....going to wait a little while in case any neighbors are sleeping in

[no moa]

lol, you are ambitious, i'd paid the $800 for soda blasting cause i'm a lazy bastid..

Good work.

[VA72C10]

Originally Posted by no moa

lol, you are ambitious, i'd paid the $800 for soda blasting cause i'm a lazy bastid..

Good work.

Well, I'm almost done and I personally have about 6 hours into the sanding and my brother in law has added about 4. He's free so I figure 2 more hours will finish it up...8 hours total= 800 savings....paying myself 100/hr to sand isn't too bad

[67cheby]

2 hours to go ....how about the doors, fenders, hood(top and bottom), grill......if you can do all that in two hours you are amazing LLLOOOLLLLLL

[VA72C10]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

2 hours to go ....how about the doors, fenders, hood(top and bottom), grill......if you can do all that in two hours you are amazing LLLOOOLLLLLL

grille is aluminum (new)

and the 800 was just for the cab....it was actually 800-1000 was the estimate from two places and that didn't include hauling it there and back.

And I mentioned earlier...I am getting the fenders and passenger door blasted before they get to me. Tkorinek had them done in AZ for 160...I couldn't have had them done that cheap here and I couldn't do as nice as job on the fenders as blasting could....I should have those in a week or two...

The only thing I need to do still on the cab are a few spots on the inside, finish up spots on the driver's door and jamb, and of course the real fun....underneath. So I'll have probably 10 hours in it total but the estimates did go up to 1000 so they probably would have charged me that so I'm still standing besides the paying myself 100/hr because I wanna

And I'm NOT looking forward to the hood. I spent probably 4 hours on my blazer hood. I might break down and take that to the sandblaster....might be doing my frame anyways because I'm hoping to get some powdercoated front suspension parts. If I do, the frame's gotta be perfect

[VA72C10]

oh and I'm already 90% done on the driver's door

[VA72C10]

Well, a good and bad day. Got some accomplished on the truck and got a tach/vac dash built to sell....

But as soon as I started on the roof I found a hole drilled...then another..and more...15 in total....come to find out most likely a PO installed roof mounted teardrop clearance lights at one point. Only 15 more holes to weld/grind

Here are the pics as I was making the discovery



j/k It's not that bad....here are the holes....

[VA72C10]

But by mid afternoon (when I had to stop to shower for a going away party for friends moving to AZ) I had the roof finished.....this made me





Looks good to me!

[VA72C10]

Truck was a little dusty...



I ended up using my leafblower after I finished up to blow all the dust away and off the truck and driveway. Got a start on the interior, finished up on the side of the firewall my brother in law was working on and then moved on to the other side of the firewall...still another probably half hour left there...