The overhang might not have worked with your panel anyhow. I'm still messing with stuff that's easy to get at while the front clip is off. Might put it back together on Saturday. Paint job is shaping up, but can't complete it until the truck is all one piece. Before and after....

 

Dang it GB! I should have let you restore my truck in the "vintage patina" look. That front clip is looking really good. I really like the Signal Stat turn signals. Seems they were used on many of these trucks back in the day.

 

Wow! Gary I just found where you've been hiding! I always enjoy your work and your threads. Keep havin fun, I'll keep watchin and readin.

 

Looking great Gary! I can't wait to see the video.
I am in Seattle for the weekend and it it made me think of you so I had to come checkout you latest progress. Amazing as usual.

 

Thanks for all the positive input! This afternoon we will be shooting the 'down the road' segment of our new feature film. He wants to film it rolling down one of our long country roads. My wife invited them for dinner afterwards and they said they have a guest visiting, would that be ok. I said sure. Hoping it's David Spade. She directed his movie, 'Joe Dirt'.

 

You should post a video on "how to" paint the vintage patina!!! I remember a couple years ago you wrote down your steps, but a video from our newest FTE celebrity would be awesome!!!

 

Problem is I do it different every time. I have never painted an entire truck with 'patina'. I have only blended parts that I transfered to an already patina truck. On pickups it seems to be the bed from something else and on the panel it was the opposite end, the front clip. Sometimes I am matching fading from the sun, but often, like the extreme example on the panel I am trying to match a brush paint job that was obviously done by a third grader. Once again, I DO like the look, but the other reason is can you imagine the hours and hours of body work before the paint job? I have no idea how to do proper bodywork and even if I did, it would be ruined on my 1/2 mile of steep gravel road up Mt. Pickett. Over the weekend I created some 'old mirrors' by cutting the stems off of an old rusty set of west coast mirrors and making some brackets from scrap that matched holes already drilled in the doors by some past farmer/miner/hacker, then topping off with some too small round mirror heads that I thought looked cool. How do I know they were too small? Well after filming another segment of the mini-series last night before dinner, I backed into a deep ditch and Geoff the film guy and I had to go get my '92 f350 4x4 and pull me out. Oh yeah, then we ran out of gas coming up the last hill in the panel, and were late to dinner.... I had a 5 gallon rusty gas can plumbed into the system for the filming trip, but only put in 3 gallons. Geoff kept saying " can you go around that loop one more time, this time a little slower (or faster)".... Well 3 gallons doesn't last too long. Anyways here's some pics of where we are today with mirrors, bumper, illegal plates etc,etc..... I just mixed up some latex house paint to do a dry brush effect in a flat green to better match the panel's bizzare paint job. It is far from done.....

 

Looking good!

 

Gary - what did you use to match the green? Looks perfect in your pics. Stu

 

I miss the coon tail!

 

I am amazed at how good your wood running boards look. They are the wood ones, right?

 

Steve, I'm putting the coon tail on as soon as I get off the computer. I forgot about it, and yes they are the wood running boards. I've been a woodworker/boatbuilder all my life. I built 3 boats before I graduated from high school. Just some plywood, a router and a couple scraps of hardwood. The reason they look so real is because of the rustoleum rusty metal primer. Nobody paints that stuff on wood, so when we see it we think it's metal. Smoke and mirrors. My grand scheme one day is to build a 40 ford woodie on an old toyota landcruiser station wagon chassis I have here. Fiberglass front clip, but brush painted with rusty metal primer. Believe me, it won't look like fiberglass because who would do that?

 

We want the movie! We want the movie! We want the movie! ....

 

He's back in hollywood. Not sure how long he's gonna take editing the footage. When I asked him if he'd come by and shoot my truck, I thought he'd be here 5 minutes. My wife will fill in , but tomorrow we are going on the 6:00 am ferry to my nephews graduation, 3 days family reunion. One bright spot though, gonna pick up a gas tank from a '60 panel on CL that measures exactly as my rotten panel tank. O it is an inch shorter....

 

This is an AWESOME build, I love these