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Congrats on your vision, effort, persistence and execution.
What a great looking truck!
All the way around you have made your truck a great piece of rolling art.
The stance, details, color, wheel combo are all working together really nicely.
I hope you have many years of enjoyment from that beauty, Pete
I found some old photos of this truck when cleaning out my tool box. Wanted to add these here. Finished up some touch-up paint. Test driving and getting the timing set. Got to get insurance on this so I can be pounding the pavement!
Serioues transformation there. Thanks for sharing and hopefully I dont pass you on the road someday so i dont run off and hit a mailbox rubber necking ha ha.
Serioues transformation there. Thanks for sharing and hopefully I dont pass you on the road someday so i dont run off and hit a mailbox rubber necking ha ha.
My wife is constantly bugging me for Rubber-necking. hahahaha
It really does amaze her how I have the ability to spot old iron. Some day this will cost me a mailbox.
Oh, speaking of Mailboxes:
In 1971, I was 20, and driving a '57 ****** wagon. I had gone to a barn beer keg party, and was a long determined drive to get home. Well, I fell asleep at around 35mph, and clipped a Mailbox.
The mailbox had a semi-truck wheel as a base, which ripped my brakes and steering loose, which ended in dead-centering a power pole, which totaled the vehicle. Mailboxes !!!
Yes, mailboxes.....Also in 1971, someone in the car was throwing glass soft drink bottles (all there were back then) at mail boxes. One of the riders leaned out the back window, threw a small coke bottle at a large, heavy duty mail box. Bang....dead center.....the bottle bounced back and hit this person on the side of the head at the forehead/temple, eye socket area, knocking him senseless for a minute. Said person ended up in emergency room, had to call mom to come get him, and had a swollen shut black eye for about two weeks. The mom in question never did believe the explanation of how the black eye came about.
This person never hit mailboxes with bottles again.
Finishing this up. Restoring the correct year tag. Still have to paint the letters and numbers then clear coat it. Got it out on the road today and got some pics of the truck. Man did it feel good to have this out on the road!!
Tailgates are back in stock now but I think I may just keep this one for now. 1984 Tracker V17 is the next project in the shop. Keeping my eye out for an early bronco to restore for a future project. Hopefully anyway.
Did the DMV give you any crap about using the tag? Mine up here is finicky depending who I'm dealing with.
No. Pretty easy just showed the one I will be using. They give us a tag to keep in the vehicle so we have to have that in there at all times but only requirement here is the one displayed must be within 10 years of the year of make.
01-24-2022, 02:55 PM
