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Hey! I'm not above screwing up now & then. But not this time. I'm saving the roof for later on. Even though guys make fun of me, I've always used yesterday's newsprint for taping off paint jobs. That's difficult to do in this age of internet news. That's OK though, I don't plan on doing any more paint jobs after I finish this one. LOL

Somewhere along the way, via CraigsList, I found a really nice bench seat that had just recently been completely redone. Black vinyl with grey cloth inserts. It was in Ft Meyers Fl, which meant it was a full day's drive round trip. The seller had a really nice '72 that he decided to install bucket seats in. We pulled the seat right out of his truck. The '72 seat doesn't fold forward like the '66 but otherwise s a bolt in swap.

It also, since I didn't like my red interior, gave me the new color combo for the interior. Slate grey with flat black dash & kicker panels.

I fixed the dents in the dash that I mentioned in the previous post. It was pretty straight forward, but I was happy that the windshield had not been installed yet. Gave me much better access to the top of the dash.

At this point in time, I'm trying to get as many parts up off the floor & on the truck due to some new interior walls going up in my shop. As it turned out, I, along with my neighbor & my wife ended up doing the whole job ourselves. Due to the building boom & shortage of help no contractors even returned our calls. The construction project pretty much shut down the truck work for about 5 months.

When construction is complete, I'll have gone from a 2400 ft shop to 800 ft. Still plenty of room plus now I've got income from the other two 800 ft bays I'm renting out.