well... two hard days of work (all by myself) took me from here.....





to here












next week... load it up and haul it to the paint shop

 

Did you get your door latches working John..?

 

Next time you post a paint thread and don't produce painted results within two days, we're putting a month long ban on your account. This should be considered false advertising and spam. Getting a guy all worked up and excited over here, then you just muck around with a hoist and such...

 

sorry MB... I didn't realize how I was teasing your sensitivities. I was just posting some update pics... I'l do better next post... or at least give you a spoiler alert "NO NEW PAINT IN THE FOLLOWING PICTURES". Didn't mean to get you all excited and leave you hanging....that's just rude.... my bad.. hopefully it won't be long before the "after" pictures will be posted... We're both excited

And John... door latch work will start on Monday.. can do that without the cab on the frame...

later
j

 

Surely there is something else to change before paint John. Looks good.

 

Hard work is paying off. We really hope to see the finished painted pics soon. When it finally gets to this stage it's makes all that hard work seem well worth it. Congrats

 

I'm lookin for it !!!

 

on it's little outing to the place to get pretty...

 

How soon before it goes in the booth John..?

 

The heck with that -- how soon before we can see pics with color on it!!

 

probably in the booth next week... but I told him there was no hurry... He has one project to finish... hood and grill on a 55 for another guy...then he starts on mine. I went back over to his house later today and he was already tweeking the fit on the doors... He's gonna do a coat of white primer/sealer, then the color coats... then the clear... so it' won't be overnight.

I only took him the hood and cab... another trip to get the bed, tailgate, roll pan, interior panels, etc... I don't want to rush him and probably couldn't anyway... he's a perfectionist and time doesn't control the final product. In the mean time I've got one more pass of sanding on the bed wood and he volunteered to spray the boards for me... so I'm giddy but I rolled it off the trailer in Sept '95,,, I can wait...

j

 

Have you picked out your next project yet...

 

yea... finishing this one... then there is that '85 Mercedes sitting under cover in the yard
and that gas pump and air pump in the shed...

 

Kool.......

 

Can't wait to see it colored in .
The yellow you've chosen is close to what I was going to paint mine .