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Old 12-09-2011, 06:42 PM
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GB SISSON'S day off

OK, so the kid that works for me in the cabinet shop wanted to take the day off so I thought what the heck, I can work on trucks all day. It was a rare sunny beautiful day here and I set about to replacing the drivers side hub on the 54 gmc. I had stolen the hub adapters off it to use on my fridge front hub 8 lug conversion and I'd been driving it (the gmc)with a stack of washers under one of the wheels for about a month and hadn't killed myself or anyone else yet, so off it came. Pounding out bearings and races etc, etc.... Well I got that done by noon and thought what should I tackle on the 59? The cab and bed are from different trucks and while I never do a show type resto, I like my rigs to be presentable so I usually mix up some paint for a touch up. I decided to mix up some semi- gloss meadow green so I can brush paint the problem areas as I fix them and it blends with the old faded paint. I've done this for years. At the end of the day I lined up my old trucks for a photo shoot. I paid less than 8000.00 for all 6 combined and picked away with used parts on the rest of the repairs. I'm headed to a Christmas party right now at one of my wealthy clients house and am running late to meet my sweetie after she gets out of work. I just had such a great day I had to share it with the fridge guys. Heres some pics of today.
 
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