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that is a clean ass truck wow!!

Dave,when your son is a grand dad he will be telling stories about his dad and his truck and their "adventures" together.

Great thread....

When is Betty scheduled for new makeup?

Before prom, whenever that is?

Pretty cool project.

Pretty cool, Dave. You're building more than '65 Mustangs and '77 F-250's there. You're building some well adjusted young people, too.

Thanks, today I worked on a back bumper (refurbishing an old step bumper), I worked on the tail gate some more and I got the 2 grill inserts ready for paint.

Mustang parts were delivered at around 6 on today. The stuff I need to move forward on the Mach 1. So, tomorrow I will be back on the mach 1.

The truck will go back to nights and weekends.

Wow! It's really looking good gentleman.

Dave, what did you think of those box sides? LMC truck?

So far so good, I haven't welded them on and started bodywork yet, we will see soon enough.

Man, you damned sure don't have to worry about going to a gym, or "working out".

What I'm seeing here is long, almost grueling days of WORK, as in real physical labor.

.....keeps ya' out of the bars, too, don't it ?

GTC

Very true, and yes my body feels like about day 20 of USMC boot camp.

(Sore)

Did you save any of the metal patches you cut out of the horse?
I'm going to repair the rockers on my Durango and the color was close.

Sure, I still have them, they are a bit wadded up but they might buff out.

Shucks. If they were straight I would've bought them.

We hung the bed sides tonight

Prepping a bed side shell, drilling holes for plug welds etc.



the other bedside was being marked for plug weld holes.



The weld interface areas were sanded clean and hit with a weld through primer just prior to installation of the new panel.





panel was fit and the welding began.

a nice mig plug weld looks like a belly button, lol.











both sides finished tonight.



Tomorrow we will fit and weld the outer wheel houses.

she's Lookin awesome, for a ford.....



I wish I had half your talent and ambition.

That truck is going to be a functional family heirloom!

wheel house time.

I test fit the outer wheel houses, got them where I was happy with the fit and marked the plug weld spots from the inner wheel house with a paint pen. Then I sanded the spots where I would be plug welding to and hit the spots with weld through primer. I sanded the entire wheel arch lip and hit it with weld through primer as well.



From under the bed, I clamped the wheel arch and drove a few sheetmetal screws in on the inner WH side to draw everything tight for plug welding from the top side.



Here is the top side after plug welding, you can see the sheet metal screws still poking through from the bottom side. I remove those in a bit.



here it is all welded from the bottom side. I drilled the wheel arch holes about every 2.5", clamped and plug welded from under the box.



Top side after some light weld grinds.



she's really getting solid now.



One more outer WH to go and the box is done.

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