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Temps like this you'll have to hook it up to that ice house.

Beast.

Lookin good.

The blue box is on.





We must have put over 200 miles on the truck this last weekend, the old truck got to play out in the forest a little.







Some stuckage, fell through some ice. We were almost out of it in these pictures. When we fell through the rocker on the passenger side was touching the snow/ice.



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Looking really good Dave.The jack all has saved my azz once or twice too.grin

So its Old Blue now?

Yeah it's blue now. Skane did a quick photoshop in OD green shown above.

of course that's what it would look like with an old worn out OD green paint jub with dents & stained paint....

Looks tough with that green.Flat black would be sweet too.

I know I have posted a bit late in 2012 about recent work on this truck but I somehow missed this old thread. I will add updates here to this old thread so it has a happy ending.

Eventually we got the blue box on the truck and actually I think we used the truck for 2 winters like this.



In these past 3-4 weeks between hunting weekends we've been replacing cab corners, patching lower door areas & other minor patching that was needed to make the body solid again.

This was to be a "quick and dirty" job. A neat "20 footer"

The truck really does still get used hard, I didn't have a lot of spare time or money so we set the bar pretty low on this job lol!

I felt it was more important to get the truck done on time rather than done too late but done perfectly. I chose a yellow and white that looked right and decided to top coat with a matte clear to make the truck look like more of an aged survivor than a gleaming new paint job. I also felt it might be better for the snow bank scratches and brush scratches the truck would see in it's normal use. I had a deer camp logo stencil made so I could decorate both doors with a service truck type of logo that I knew my uncle would like. I lightly distressed the painted logos before clear coating to try to make them look a bit aged as well.








Finally we were ready for some paint prep.





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Cab in epoxy prime with the roof white.



The replacement wheels painted white.



some yellow..



first door logo...



I sprayed the matte finish clear Tursday night, we peeled all the tape, bolted the new wheels on, loaded the truck and drove it to camp with the paint still drying. Talk about "just in time"





The smile on my uncle's face was great. His eyes got pretty glossy when he saw the truck, it was the last thing he expected to see when he pulled up to the cabin for the last weekend of deer season.

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My oldest boy and best helper driving the truck home yesterday.




Here's the truck in recent action where it does some snow cleaning chores out on frozen Lake of the woods in northern MN.

These two pictures make me smile like heck.

Great job... I use to cry when I lived back in MN seeing neat old trucks like that, with their bodies all rotted out...especially heavy duty stuff like that from the 60s and 70s...

a few years ago, my neighbor sold a 1970 3/4 ton Ford 4WD for $1200, body was immaculate, paint a little faded... it had 120,000 miles on it, and the motor was a 360...

he sold it due to the gas mileage being low, and gas prices getting too spendy... he used it mainly for going to the dump...

he sold it before I had a chance to buy it from him, other wise I'd own it today...

missed a 68 Ford, same vehicle but 300 Six and 4 speed, with the first being a granny gear...immaculate from bumper to bumper.. less than 100K on it.. $1200 for that one also..

Yup

great work once again, Dave.
The pics with your uncle brought a smile. You done good.

That is one great project!!

Turned out great, and those are my favorite old Ford's.

Great family stuff and great job on the resto!!

I liked the OD "version", but since it's a family truck and uncle liked the hell out of it, damn good job. ;O)