Gorgeous truck! Really nice work and attention to detail.

 

Really. Nice. Truck!!!

What did you do with the headliner? It looks like you covered the usual insert with leather and did a padded insert in the center.

Looks really great.

Phil

 

Man that thing looks great!

 

Hey thanks! Yep that's basically it. But it is vinyl, except the seat. Seat is all leather. The upholstery shop did a great job, but they screwed up my dome light wiring and scratched my door and fender. But of course they won't own up to it. They did great upholstery work, but they're a little short on integrity.

 

Tyler - congrats to you and your son on a most striking finished project. Yours should be the required project thread read to educate new owners on the challenges, victories, and commitment needed for such an outcome.

Get some miles on that beauty. Be sure the horn works so you can properly respond to all the admiring reactions from onlookers.

 

Really Nice!

 

Congrats Tyler and son! Glad I can say I knew you when...

 

Hey thanks Chuck and everybody for all your kind words. Yeah we are proud of it, that is for sure. Just for fun here are two pics: The "Before" pic, the day we found it three and a half years ago, and the "After" pic, just a couple days ago.

 

Beautiful truck! Would love to see some pictures of the engine bay. ,Doug

 

Yeah I'll post some. It isn't as organized as I'd like. Mainly I need to redo the spark plug wires. T

 

Now that is one sweet looking truck!! GREAT WORK!!

 

Glad to hear that everything on the truck is not perfect
It is a beautiful truck!

 

Great looking truck, congratulations!

 

Congratulations on the completion of a fine looking truck and a great family effort! I do like the color and the stance, well done.

 

Thank you all for the encouraging comments! I thought some of you might find the following pictures interesting. My son is a very gifted guitarist. He plays both electric and acoustic. It is one of the focal points of his life. Anyway, we thought we would incorporate that symbolically in this truck (the truck is mine on paper but his in practice).

So our seat upholstery has 6 stitched seams on each side, representing the 6 strings of a guitar (same with the headliner)...


The upper portion of the door panels are cut to emulate the head of his Fender Telecaster electric guitar (the head of a guitar is the small end, where the tuning pegs are), complete with large screws and finish washers to imitate the tuning pegs...


For the shifter ****, we cut the horn off of an old Fender Stratocaster body that we bought for 10 or 20 bucks at a used music store...




It turned out cool I think. Subtle. Tyler