doesnt seem like much, kinda ghetto, but it strong and works. Dont have the facilities to take cab and box off, so gotta work around that. only got hand tools with a welder, **** takes so long!

i had a cool little mazda b220 i bought in august 11, fixed up and was the best damn winter car i could ask for.(other than mileage)-his name was Frank, and i gre very attatched to him, after living on a week on my buddies couch and welding him all day.

My sang and newly aquired mazda

Rotted

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i ****ing loved that truck..
my gf sends me the link to this huge monster that i instantly fell in love with. she jokingly said you should get it...i took it seriously.
I scrambled to sell my Frank, noody was buying, seller was getting antsy..so i sold my mesa dual rectier amp for 1200, cabs for 500, and few misc itmes like headphones, silver jewlerey, silver coins to fund this new truck. I scraped together 2000$ in a week and a half, and the truck was mine.

How she looked when i brought her home. picked her up feb 28, took this mar 12/12

 

So now i was stuck with 3 vehicles, which soon 2 became undriveable. took insurance off mazda and put it on big ford, and big ford decided to poop the WP on me.

ill have to update later with more pics, as pics are coo;

new wp and 3 core alum rad in.

noticed a vibration from the front one day. belts started to delaminate, time for tires.
scooped these brand new tires with new oem rims for 575


got some of those hiuge mirrors off an l900


it has superduty springs in it, with stupid camber. got the correct springs for $40, yet to install


had exmas for better part of april so not much work got done. sold my beloved frank early april, so had a bit of funds to buy things and sustain life. once may hit i was free, dove into the truck 2nd week of may. may 15th i realized the auto is poop and started to heave it. That night my stang spun a bearing, so my fun was gone, at least it keeps me focused on truck.

may 20th i started ripping into the truck for good


scored a nice autoshade helmet for 70 bucks new




thinking omaha orange for paint

that took me about 2 weeks, dont have time on weekends, i work occasionally, but mainly just consuming truck work, cut, fit, grind, refit etc..

may 26 i finished this


31st did this, and took me anothe rhalf day to finish the backside. sometimes iwonder where the time goes


i really want to do a 79 front end conversion...


july 3rd
https://i.imgur.com/lS3wQ.jpg

some conversion ****.



money is tight so i had to use the clutch the guy gave me


used stang dowel pin to align it..realized its too thin and everythigng was off, so i spent 20 minutes staring at it getting it just centered.


coulndt find a thin wall 36 socket for the rear yoke, so made my own


by the 6th i got to the a pillar door seam curve thing and finally got the remainder of the auto **** out



today i finally finished the rear corner, marking the end of welding on the drivers side! now need to make a plate that coveres the whole rear section where wall meets floor..and start passenger side..

 

cab corner cont

made an inner sleeve


test fit, finally lined up perfect after the shot, welded in on the bottom and top of C rail. riveted to back to cab wall, too thin to weld, and no access



dont laugh


this is our dog my gf and i adopted from toronto humne society, hes awesome.






was on sale for 2.50 a can so i loaded up. this is THE BEST **** for sealing any gaps, welds or seams, especially inside the cab corner where ya cant reach. just aim higher, and unload, it will all gunk and pool up in there, sealing it from any oxygen cant wait to rub off old flaking **** underneath and coat everythign underneath as well as interior of cab, gunna be smooth and quiet



tomorrow, i fix that rear section

 

one thing i instantly noticed was wrong on the truck was it appeared to say it only had 39 thousand kms...no way.. well onc ei pulled the cluster out, i saw what was up. someone before had used a sharpie to cover the 4, so it has 439k lol. fackin *******s.the previous owner sold it to me claiming 339k. i was buying it one way or another as long as it ran.

after i rebuilt frank my red truck, i promised myself i aint doing this kind of **** anymore!...big black is worse by an order of magnitude of 100! but just feels so bad *** being at the helm of an old school diesel rig

 

That and its a bricknose XD! And 439k is about 1/2 - 3/4 of that engines life....but like we always say. The truck will rot away around the engine.

 

sweet progress. what did the cashier say when you brought all those spray bombs to the register? lol

 

^we have some more in the back if you'd like lol