thanks for all the props guys (and possibly a girl out there) the road to completion was well documented (i'm a photographer for a newspaper) so yes, i've got quite a few pics... i did huge amount of work on this ride, paying others only when i didn't have the talent... like coming into the body shop and seeing a "topless" truck when the roof was sectioned into nine pieces and sitting on the floor.
i am still spitting out pieces of black beauty 'blastin media from 1985, laying on my back in the dirt driveway, in july, attacking rust with a vengeance
robin50... the adaptation was fairly straightforward with welded up brackets being the way to go... filler panels took care of the rearliights, filled in the gas tank port, and removed the black plastic "steps" on the stepside... oh yeah, filled the tailgate handle and added the blue dots.
yeah... i get more thumbs up from passing cars than mr. grumpy who i think has his thumb somewhere else...
this was my first (and last) frame off rodsteration, so i am no whiz, but i can tell ya where every nut, bolt, rivit, wire, and more is on my truck, and you can't say that when ya take out the checkbook and buy a ride.
all i have to do is brainstorm a "ceiling" solution as with chopping the top, no way will a repro headliner fit... also, the outer window frames need to be sectioned and installed... and then i have an idea on how to better blend the running boards into the bed...
and so it goes
