I like to see good work in shops that I can't afford.

If I had your body-work skills and abilities, I would have grafted the two cabs into one monster six-door and stretched the rails.


A guy up the road, way before diesels were ever available, used to stretch 4-door Chevys and graft on Oldsmobile Vista-Cruiser roofs; he scavenged every junk-yard for miles around and butchered every Vista-Cruiser he could find; he is solely responsible for making them so rare today.

Nobody complained about the head-room in those Vista-Cruiser trucks.

 

Thanks , I really don't like body work but , if I'm going to pay someone to mess it up i might as well mess it up my self.
This is the first major project in this shop . I have been working a long time to build the shop and set it up to be play with cars truck and a rockcrawler.

This is my other money pit

 

Nice.. you on PBB also? same user name?

 

yes thats me

 

ahh cool.. I am "Ken Carter / Bruiser" on PBB

 

nice work lota of time and money but it will be sweet,why dident you cut the tank brackets and and a piece in to lower tank

 

Yeah Ken I followed your build thread over there too, before i found this site.


I guess I could of moved the tank down , never thought of that .
To use the CC tank I made new steel fuel lines and spliced the gas gage wires.
but lost the low fuel light

 

Not too much work got done this week
striped and filled the holes in the fenders , then primed two doors and two fenders .I was hoping to shoot some colour today but my paint gun was not sealing properly

 

did your rear doors have a crack on the outside from the center of the glass opening on down 6 inches or so. how did you handle the repair.

 

Actually they were just starting to crack maybe 3/16 -1/4 inch
I welded them up . They were cracking on the inside and out

 

Today's update , got the inner fenders and inside of the doors painted
Also painted under the cab too then some undercoating.
Tommorow it goes back on the frame then some re assembly.....

 

lookin great

 

Is there a source for the rubber molding that goes around the non opening window on the rear door?

 

I do not know, luckily mine was still good, the rubber around the opening widow did get wrecked pulling that out.

 

Looking good man. I'm keeping an eye on your progress. I plan on doing one this summer.