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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 08:14 PM
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Time to give back!

Been soakin up info from you guys for a while so today, if I can figure out how, I will start returning the favor by showing my build from the very start up to the present and beyond. I know you like pics so I started a gallery. Bear with me as I gotta do a lot of resizing. This all started April 2010 when I stumbled across this on Craigslist. 100 miles from home.
 
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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 08:42 PM
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I'll try the pic thing again.
 
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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 08:43 PM
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welcome to the collected wisdom and insanity of old Ford trucks..so..what have you got in mind with your project ??
 
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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 08:56 PM
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Street rod. Daily driver. Already got Mustang front end in and Exploder rear axle. Trying to get my picture size right as I'm new to participating in this forum stuff but practically everything I've done I learned here.
 
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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 10:21 PM
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Wow, that looks really clean and straight!
Size your pix to ~ 600 x 800 pixels 75 dpi jpgs in size and compress ~ 50% when you save as whatever you want to name it. That should give small enough file size without being hard to see or need to scroll to see the whole thing.
 
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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 10:50 PM
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Excellent! We're glad to have you hanging about.

Looks like a very clean truck!, good for you

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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 10:52 PM
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Congratulations! Looks like a great project, good luck with it.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 12:21 AM
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Welcome to the site. Wow, that's a really nice looking truck. It is in great shape.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 01:28 AM
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Looks like an excellent start...that body is pretty straight. Welcome to the forum!
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 10:29 AM
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Thanks for the advice. My new problem is I started a gallery so I can post pics in threads and everything was going well. 30some pics of my build so far. Like I said, I want to give back. Was adding some text to the last pic last night, went to upload album and it looked like I got bumped off the page. Everything is still there under under Edit Gallery but no longer appears under Galleries. It was there earlier as Idaho 56 build. Sorry for the ignorance. With a little help I'll get there.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 11:08 AM
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Your pix in your gallery are showing up just fine.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 11:11 AM
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A very nice truck Tom.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 01:24 PM
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Glad you see em. Not sure why I don't. By the way, AXracer, I had a 55 Ford panel back in the 70's. I dropped a T-bird 312 into it. Love to have it back. Also had a 52 F1 panel. Back then I think we all had to sell something to get the next thing.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 02:40 PM
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Your pix in your gallery are showing up just fine.
OK, just found em. Was looking in the wrong place.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 03:08 PM
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Looks like you really lucked out in finding a straight and solid truck. You are doing a lot of nice work to it too. Thanks for sharing your progress and that's a nice size shop you have too.
 
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