My painted gauges
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thats the kind of tool that you go to harbor freight to buy...
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So I tried taking pictures of it at night but I cant get my flash to not work on my camera so youll have to trust me on this one when I say it lights up pretty darn good. Since I had another cluster hanging around Id thought I try some more color combos with it so I did. I painted the casing on this one and I might take it out with the one I have cause I think the silver one I just did looks really nice. Let me know if I should exhange the stock black casing with the silver one in the pic.
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after i pulled out the light **** i had a spare one and broke the end off the spare and used that one to turn the lights back off and keeping it for later use ,it works great and keep it in my truck toolbox
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O yea I know they would better like that but black was the only thing i could use atm and it was just a test sorta thing anyway.
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never even thought about the silver, I did however use the rattle-can chrome on the inside to help get the light to reflect around better
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Looks great Sean. Its clean...
and im not trying to hijack your thread but i figured thisd be the best place as any since its your thread and we're both in it.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/9...mpionship.html
vote for me or Sean in the Championships.
help the 80-86 crowd get some recognition.
Cheers Sean
and im not trying to hijack your thread but i figured thisd be the best place as any since its your thread and we're both in it.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/9...mpionship.html
vote for me or Sean in the Championships.
help the 80-86 crowd get some recognition.
Cheers Sean
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Looks great Sean. Its clean...
and im not trying to hijack your thread but i figured thisd be the best place as any since its your thread and we're both in it.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/9...mpionship.html
vote for me or Sean in the Championships.
help the 80-86 crowd get some recognition.
Cheers Sean
and im not trying to hijack your thread but i figured thisd be the best place as any since its your thread and we're both in it.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/9...mpionship.html
vote for me or Sean in the Championships.
help the 80-86 crowd get some recognition.
Cheers Sean
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I have noticed that too my friend... Guess us good ole boys who spend hours and hours on ours dont get too much recognition hahaha.
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The custom work does not go unappreciated. But depending on the generation of truck more people expect them to be work trucks vs. customs and vice versa. The 80-86 is still new enough more people like them to be work trucks, unlike the early-mid 50's more people like them as customs. The 80-86 is still built to be a work truck so it seems to be they are expected to be used as such. To each their own.
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The custom work does not go unappreciated. But depending on the generation of truck more people expect them to be work trucks vs. customs and vice versa. The 80-86 is still new enough more people like them to be work trucks, unlike the early-mid 50's more people like them as customs. The 80-86 is still built to be a work truck so it seems to be they are expected to be used as such. To each their own.
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+1
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The third world countries still use the 50's trucks as work trucks.It's amazing seeing those trucks still being worked and running like a top.Unfortunately,in my town I used to see alot of 80-86's in the less fortunate parts of town,and they were beat to death by some of those individuals.Nice top of the line Lariats were filled with dents and dirt and mismatched wheels.Most of them ended up in my local junkyards.Then,when it got hard to find running 80-86's,I started to see 8th gens.Now it's up to 9th gens,and they still aren't getting treated like they should.But,it's their trucks,so all I can do is drive by and just look the other way.