Started in on My friend Josh's 79 today. Here are some pics. I will try to keep these up dated as this goes on for the next month.
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rot cut out
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New steel welded in
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Ouch bone graph is nasty surgery. I hope it heals niceley!

 

new cab+bed
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striping
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sandblasting
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cut out some rust,weld thru primer, new panels
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Finished sandblasting. POR 15 on anywhere there was rust, anywhere there was seam sealer, cab floor and poured it in cab corers and cab mounts
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Finished body work on cab and primed. Por15 in every orfice i could get the pray gun near. O 43 dents in the roof!!!
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looks like your doing a great job. Can't wait to see more pics of progress. Look at all the rust make feel good about my 79 ,rust free from CA.

 

This is a born and raised Northen PA truck

 

Very impressive! Thanks for the pics.

Josh

 

Ok. Got the bottom and the firewall painted today. I just used a single stage PPG Paint to try to keep costs down. It is a GM color.
Icelandic Misty Blue Effect, leave it to Gm to have some exteavigant name for slate blue
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nice work man, keep the pics coming.

 

Got the doors stripped,nose off and about 300 ft of not needed , fire starting wire of the truck today
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Did the interior, dash,door jams, and firewall today. All base/clear
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