Roostre's 1967 C20

[Roostre]

Originally Posted by Stephen717

Looking good, I need to reseal the drip rails over my doors, cut off the rail going over my windshield though and have slowly been welding the top back down ever since whenever I get a free moment. Can't wait to see more from you

Thanks! I'm doing what I can with the time available. We have a 2 year old, and the little guy takes precedence with time. Very soon he'll be out there helping me!

Next up I'm hoping to get the front clip squared away and spray some paint while we have this nice, low humidity weather.

[Roostre]

I sold an old car to our local grab & go today. While there, I wandered back to the two 68 trucks sitting in the back of their yard. I scored a sun visor for $5.66. The green will look a little weird in my red truck, but at that price it's better than the current one with the split seam and it's inside falling out.

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by Roostre

I sold an old car to our local grab & go today. While there, I wandered back to the two 68 trucks sitting in the back of their yard. I scored a sun visor for $5.66. The green will look a little weird in my red truck, but at that price it's better than the current one with the split seam and it's inside falling out.

That will work and you can dye it to match

[Roostre]

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20

That will work and you can dye it to match

I'm sure I'll dye it someday. For now it will work fine. I have other body work on the list to do! It will also give my friends something to comment on!

[Roostre]

It has been a while since I've done anything to the old girl. We've been busy buying a new house, moving, and selling our old house. Today I brought my truck to the new house. Had to leave a calling card in the old shop. A little weak, but the truck hadn't run in a year! Three days on the battery charger and a shot of staring fluid and she fired right off.

[Roostre]

It has been a while since I've updated this thread. In truth, the truck has been hibernating. We bought a new house, about 20 miles from our old place. Everything got moved, and the other place sold. The truck was packed up and stuck in one of the out buildings. We got through winter as I worked on cleaning out and setting up my new shop. It's not completely done; I need to paint. But the beautiful weather today must have inspired me to get the truck out, to heck with painting the shop!
A couple of hours on the battery charger, 2 mouse-chewed spark plug wires, and 2 mouse-chewed distributor wires later, and she fired right up. We did a quick spin down the lane and it was into the new shop.
Now the cab will come off to replace the floor. Hopefully I will be able to push the frame and box out into another shed while I work on the cab. I'm looking forward to making progress again!
Here's a picture of her in the new shop.

[Ol Blue K20]

Nice!

[LT7A]

Nice truck, cool project. Great shop with a(t least one) neat window.

[Roostre]

Originally Posted by LT7A

Nice truck, cool project. Great shop with a(t least one) neat window.

Thanks. Yes, I'm happy with the shop. There's 3 windows like that. Unfortunately they're getting rusty and leaking, so I think I'm going to have to replace them. The previous owners had a bunch of crap in there that I had to clean out before it was a usable space. What I really didn't understand is that they had shelving covering the windows. I also had to put in better lighting. Here's a picture of what it looked like from approximately the same angle. The toolbox, air compressor, and ladders I brought with me.

[Chevys4life]

Nice work on your truck and nice shop too!!!

[Roostre]

Thanks everyone! I hope there will be progress on the truck to share soon.

[LT7A]

Crazy to cover the window, unless it was a security issue. What's your shop square footage; it looks big.

[Roostre]

Originally Posted by LT7A

Crazy to cover the window, unless it was a security issue. What's your shop square footage; it looks big.

I live just past the middle of no where, not much security issue! It is around 20' x 30'. I like my current set up better than my previous one because I have several other buildings to store stuff so my shop is just for the current project. My previous 40 x 40 was the only building I had so it was storage, workspace, and garage all in one. Also, the 20 x 30 is much easier to heat!

[Roostre]

Last night I stripped the paint off of my grill trim pieces. Then I worked the worst dents out of them and painted them with some rustoleum. The finish isn't great, but was cheap, easy, and will look ok on my driver. Unfortunately, I didn't think about before pictures until I was half way through straightening them. I really have to get better about that! I do have an after picture though.

The color is kind of an ivory off white. I'm going to do the grill trim, headlight bezels, and bumpers the same color. It will look better than the rusty bright white they are now. If I don't like it, I'm only out some time and can always repaint.

[Ol Blue K20]

Looks good to me...

[Roostre]

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20

Looks good to me...

Thanks!

[LT7A]

That's a very interesting idea. Sometimes with patina rigs, the mirrors, bumpers, and wheels get painted back to a factory white while the body keeps its bumps and bruises. I totally get squaring away some of those bolt on pieces to sharpen up the truck without spoiling the patina. But sometimes they end up looking brand new while the rest of the truck looks old. Using an ivory or off-white is an idea I hadn't thought of, that might true things up a little bit without making them stand out as much as a bright white. I will like to see your pictures on this.

[Roostre]

Originally Posted by LT7A

That's a very interesting idea. Sometimes with patina rigs, the mirrors, bumpers, and wheels get painted back to a factory white while the body keeps its bumps and bruises. I totally get squaring away some of those bolt on pieces to sharpen up the truck without spoiling the patina. But sometimes they end up looking brand new while the rest of the truck looks old. Using an ivory or off-white is an idea I hadn't thought of, that might true things up a little bit without making them stand out as much as a bright white. I will like to see your pictures on this.

Yes, I agree with you. If you look at the picture of the headlight, you can see some of the grill trim. Someone painted them bright white before I got it. They just didn't look right with the weathered paint of the truck.

I realized that I haven't updated the plan in a while, and this ties into it. I'm replacing a bunch of rust and fixing some road rash. The box on the truck is faded red paint. I like the look, so I've got some single stage satin red that I'm going to make the entire truck one color with. I think the off white trim will look really sharp with the color. So its not going to be a true patina or faux patina truck, but I think it will look ok.

I'm also not a professional body man, so I don't want to spray super expensive product on the truck.

[Roostre]

Tonight I spent some time cleaning up my headlight bezels to paint them to match the grill trim. The bezels were rusting under the three layers of paint. I think someone probably primed and painted over the rust. As I stripped them, they look like they were chrome at one point. There were a couple of minor dents in the edge of one that I worked out after taking the paint layers off.

This time, I got before and during pictures. The first one is what they looked like before I started. You can see the edges of the grill trim in the picture to compare the color. The next picture is after I hit them with my air angle grinder with an 80 grit pad. I then went over them with 80 grit by hand. The next picture is after some 100 grit by hand. The final one is in primer.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll have some pictures of the finished product.

[Ol Blue K20]

Looking forward to the finished pics.

[Roostre]

I finally got some paint on my headlight bezels. They turned out pretty good. I also set them in the grill with the newly painted grill trim. The grill hasn't been painted yet, but the trim color looks pretty good with the faded red of the grill. I also got a picture with one of the original white trim pieces. They look really similar under my led shop lighting, but I like the ivory white a lot in person. The last picture is of the original next to the new on my bench.

Hopefully now on to some more body work.

['68OrangeSunshine]

Cool. I like it when people get hard core downtown realtime Model Year '67 on their grille. Seen too many who paint it all one color, or chrome the trim rings and headlight bezels like a '68.
Like this Guy...
Oh wait, that's me.

[LT7A]

The ivory looks good!

[dagnabbitt]

Originally Posted by LT7A

The ivory looks good!

x2, I love that ivory color. Well done. What brand of paint did you use?

[Roostre]

Originally Posted by dagnabbitt

x2, I love that ivory color. Well done. What brand of paint did you use?

Thanks guys, I'm happy with it.

I really like the look of the white grill with chrome trim that some of these trucks have. If my trim pieces had been chrome rather than painted, I probably would have gone that direction.

The paint is Rust-oleum Painter's Touch 2X. I love this paint. I use it on most of my projects. It covers really well and seems to be pretty resilient. I took a picture of the can because I'm going to do my bumpers as well, so I'll definitely need some more.