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I've got a donor truck ready to give up it's body panels. the parts on the donor truck arent perfect either but I plan to cut & graft patches from the old body panels to help complete the "better" body parts that I'll move from the blue truck to the yellow truck. The yellow truck has sentimental value, it was my uncle's truck so I have a lot of childhood memories of the old yellow beast. former glory: It's a little cooler now in the evenings when I get home from work so I'm thinking it's time to get started. My boys are home during the day so I told them (mostly the oldest) to feel free to start taking that old blue truck apart.
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Going to paint it back to yellow I hope?
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Nuther cool project Dave, may I suggest a "rainbow" color scheme?
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you would suggest rainbow. It's going back to yellow with a white cap.
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Dude, but then old "Yella" will be Bluey !!
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Oh, you so hafta incorporate the bed tool box in the new one.
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You must have looked after her Dave, as she's in about the same condition as my '92 Chevy plow truck !! Paul.
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Oh, you so hafta incorporate the bed tool box in the new one. oh yeah, the whole box off the blue one is being moved over to the yellow one. There are some camper dents in the tops of the box sides on the blue box but I can fix them. The doors are moving over from the blue truck, hood, fenders, grill (even though it's not the right year it is a nice grill) I will have to do some patching on the blue fenders and doors, I will use borrowed sheetmetal from the soon to be retired yellow parts.
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Neat truck and worthy project.
It's probably the redneck in me, but I think it looked better w/ the chrome stacks in the old pic.
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almost seems a shame to mess with something that has so much character and history, but this will prolong its life for you and hopefully your young ones as well. Like others here, I've seen your work. I'm sure it will be a beauty again when you're done. Jim
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Realize it's a working truck and you want to stay practical, but I bet your boys would dig something like this. You can never have too many hot rods in the family.
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well the donor truck could go that way but ole yeller is going up instead of down. A friend of mine is donating a set of hiboy springs for the project.
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I don't see the problem Dave. Yeller looks fine.
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It's going back to yellow with a white cap.
That's good to hear. That truck looks good in that scheme.
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When I got home today there were 2 proud boys that had the blue truck to this point. With a little help from dad it didn't take long & the fenders started coming off. old fender patches will be replaced. There's how she sits at the end of tonight's work.
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Dave, What a great father/sons project! This will be a memory that will stick with them for the rest of their lives. They don't realize that you get more out of it than they do. By the way, those boys are quite handsome. And you can really see the innocence in their faces. They must have gotten your innocence since their mother kept all of her's.
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Thanks, the boys are bigshots for sure.
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No messin around eh? Heck, you're going to finish your before mine's done at this point.
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Any of the mechanicals getting redone Dave?
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