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Imho plain jane wins almost every time with the exception of good wheels. Mickey Thomson CLASSIC IIs look as good as anything on a 4x4 truck.

great big long weekend for the kids, no school friday or monday, so betty will be getting more work done soon!

Hurry!
Prom's a-comin'!!!

I will vote no to the cab lights too. I'm partial to smoothies ;-). I also agree with Bristoe in regard to the roll bar with a row of flood lights.

I spent a little time with the blocks on the surfacing primer, on bedsides.

Not too bad, better than I expected actually.



here's a little low spot that looks like it will block out in the primer level.



this is why you surface and level new panels (and old ones) with blocks. this is just a couple swipes with the long block, you can see all the highs and lows. that was a new panel, taken to bare metal, epoxy primed and 2 coats of hi build urethane surfacing prime.



if we would have shot color and clear on this, especially being black.... ripples and waves....

She's leveling out really nice though, should be a nice straight truck.

Just keep in mind that the rollbar should only be screwed to the bed itself just like they were in the 80's. Wouldn't want it actually doing anything but looking cool. Don't forget to chrome the leaf springs and differential covers while your at it.

And be careful talking about those almighty 300s Seafires gonna get all horned up.

That's a Ford, not a Toyota.

Good thing this is your J-O-B Dave.

I'd have that thing painted and marking pavement!

Dave, you ever see one of those body tools they use to pull in the sheet metal on the outer box wall to form a indent for a frt gas tank fill? Magnum_Man

Sounds like a dimple die?

(not my picture)

Saw this and thought of this Thread:

Big Red F-100

Interior view:

sjr;
Good afternoon and Happy Easter to you and your crew sir.

Funny in that when I first began to read this thread on Dave's son's truck I thought to myself - "Well I rode in a white one a couple times that really went pretty good"

All the best to you folks and again Happy Easter.

Dwayne

I blocked out the bed sides, they came very close to perfect. I decided to just hit it with another coat of primer and final block it tomorrow.



The rest of the cab was sanded to bare metal today, we got the tailgate back in the booth to get some silver base on the raised ford letters and we also refurbished the original dealership tag which was a bit flakey from age. We decided to keep it, clean it up, paint it silver and we will high gloss clear it before putting it back on the tailgate where the dealer had it when they sold the truck new out if Denver.





Also got the first round of blocking done on the doors. I will prime these again tomorrow, very shallow low spots, not really worth getting out the glazing filler in my opinion.

Yep on the cab lights. Have one crew cab with and one without. I like the lights.

Visor is a no go ...one pheasant and it is gone!

We like the lights, we just don't like these lights on this truck. They are huge, we may exchange for a set of the factory type lights.

The photo in the catalog we ordered from were very misleading, made these lights look the same size, possibly even smaller than the factory type. We got these lights and opened the package.... Wtf? They are like twice the size we thought they would be, lol.

That is bad ass.

Love it.

And with LED bulbs they will be very bright, maybe more than you want, I'm thinking a clean roof line, on a truck this straight.

Hey Dave!

Happy Berfday!



(again)

my friends dad had an original 57(IIRC) ford 4x4 that looked a lot like that.
40 was about top speed,though.
I think the engine was a 231 4 cylinder