Pre '47 "What Did You Do To Your Truck This Week" Thread

[Dan in Pasadena]

Ok, no one is doing anything to their truck but me I guess.

Last week at the Pomona Swap Meet I found a 1941 California license plate for only $10! Its "mouse eaten" around the edges and has a couple tiny rusted-through spots but for $10 I couldn't pass up trying my hand at restoring it. It'll hang on my shop wall as my truck is registered as a '46. Under California's "Year of Manufacture" license program, I can't use it - even though my cab is ACTUALLY a '41 cab! One of the old fashioned longer license plate frames will totally hide the bad edges. The tiny holes? If it were going on my truck I'd repair them with JB Weld but since its not I'm claiming "patina"

Here's "Before" and "In Process" and fully stripped shots from today. I used a wire wheel on my bench grinder. I also painted it with several coats of rattle can high build, sand-able primer, then gloss black but didn't get any pictures of that yet. Tomorrow I may get to masking off the letters for yellow paint.