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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 | ....because I'm too busy hauling bush. Maybe I'll consider touching it up here and there, maybe restore the interior but right now the truck is having way too much fun hauling stuff and doing errands. Haulin Bush
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Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 | ....because I'm too busy hauling bush. .JPG]Haulin Bush [/URL]
Boy am I disappointed. You said Bush not brush. I was hoping you were a Beer truck driver. (or was that Busch)
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 946 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 946 | Wife wants me to restore my truck You obviously have an awesome wife! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | A man needs two trucks, one to haul with and one to restore.
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 127 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 127 | does that mean she won't complain about the cost? | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 946 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 946 | Do we ever share the actual cost of our restoration with our significant other? | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,254 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,254 | What are you using for backup lights?
Dennis
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 | Hmmmmmmmm, Maybe the word brush would sound a little better.
Actually, the wife knows how much I Like treating the truck like a truck but she's hoping I would at least give it a quick paint job to cover up all the scratches in the bed as well as the back side of the cab. Seee? with brush in place you can't see all them scratches.
Dennis, I don't remember where I got those lights, but I believe they came from someone here on the bolt maybe 10+ years ago. All I remember is that they are actually chevy or gmc back up lights but no idea off of what.
Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
| | | | | Joined: May 2011 Posts: 49 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: May 2011 Posts: 49 | Backup lights? BACKUP LIGHTS? We don't need no stinkin' backup lights!
From what I saw... leave it alone. Drive it and have fun! | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 | I think it looks good as is. All those marks are like the scars we've all accumulated over the years. They were earned honestly. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 | If you see my backup lights that meams I am waiting for you to catch up/ | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Around here we call those scratches "character". But if your hauling the wife to church in it you could at least wash it  Trucks do pay their way while a car is an absess on a man's billfold!!! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 435 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 435 | My truck is still in primer after 2 years of restoring it, and 23 years of rust before that. When someone asks me about painting it, I tell them primer is paint.
Tramp | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,877 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,877 | bah... keep it as a truck, not a car!
You still have one of the best looking working trucks on the forum here.
-W | | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 698 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 698 | A man needs two trucks, one to haul with and one to restore. Really you only find true bliss with 3. One to drive, one to work on, and one to plan to work on.............
My Fleet: 19411953195919651966 1953 Willy's Pickup John Vegetarian- old Indian word for bad hunter
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,576 back yard wrench turner | | back yard wrench turner Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,576 | I see I'm not the only one with a Mustang here
Wayne1938 1-Ton Farm Truck-30- Stovebolt Gallery ForumsWhen I die, I hope she doesn't sell everything for what I told her I paid for it! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | I see I'm not the only one with a Mustang here I'm "Mustang" in the heart. My first new car was a 65 Mustang I ordered from the factory. ...289 with 4 barrel and 3 speed. Memories of cold beer and hot girls.
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 | Maybe for now, I'll just start putzing with it instead like replace the old rubber hoses, drive the truck, check brake shoes, drive the truck, change brake fluid, drive the truck,repack wheel bearings, drive the truck, clean up the wiring in the engine bay, etc, and yes drive the truck. That will be more beneficial to the rig as compared to doing cosmetics.
Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 | What's to restore? Looks perfect to me.
Why is that Mustang engine Chevy orange? | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 | It wanted to be a chebbie power plant? Who knows but it was replaced with a ever so blue motor.
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Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 166 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 166 | Don't take it apart to restore! I tore my 37 apart several years ago. For a while I lost interest. I'm finally interested in getting started putting it back together. I've lost many years driving this truck. I should have never taken the cab off the frame...... I think yours looks great now!
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 | Charles,
Sounds like you need help in putting it back together?
Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 166 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 166 | Just needed motivation. Got frustrated with it & got tired of sanding. I have never taken a vehicle apart this far. I now finally have the time & am figuring out where to start again. My motivation now is a friend visiting from England next May. He wants to drive it. He just finished restoring a Lancia Fulvia into a rally car. My 52 MG TD has taken a fair amount of time getting the brakes sorted & new valve seat. At least the MG is a runner. | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 | No more comments about the Mustang, please. Let's stay on topic.
Thanks. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | Maybe for now, I'll just start putzing with it instead like replace the old rubber hoses, drive the truck, check brake shoes, drive the truck, change brake fluid, drive the truck,repack wheel bearings, drive the truck, clean up the wiring in the engine bay, etc, and yes drive the truck. That will be more beneficial to the rig as compared to doing cosmetics. You've kind of answered your own question.  Sounds like you're having way too much fun,if you tear it apart you'll probably regret it. At least doing it that way you can still drive it.
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1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 | Yeah,
Think I'll get the biggest bang for the buck if I go that path. Oh yes and install new door weather stripping.
Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
| | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 | I prefer working on mine a little at a time and driving it between tasks. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 | Sounds like the way to go, otherwise what will all the hot local housewives give a thumbs up to if the truck is down for a long time.
Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 143 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 143 | We are all missing the point here--- dab a little paint on the scratches and make her happy with a promise to do a better job a little at a time. Remember "if Momma ain't happy, nobody is happy!" | | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,109 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,109 | GrandpaGlennO, has the right idea. my preacher's son was ashamed of the old Toyota truck he had to drive so i told him to clean it up and spray primer over the rust and if someone said something just say you are in the process of restoring it.
Ron, The Computer Greek I love therefore I am.1954 3100 Chevy truckIn the Gallery 2017 Buick Encore See more pix1960 MGA Roadster Sold 7/18/2017
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 829 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 829 | Maybe you could enlist her to mask off certain areas, sand them down, and paint them - all while you are doing the other maintenance? | | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 698 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 698 | Take it to the best custom paint shop in town. Get an estimate on sanding the whole thing down, fixing any dents the old fashion way (not with bondo) and then painting it with a good 3 stage paint (don't forget to have them quote on the door jams too). Take the estimate home and act real excited when you show it to her. Guaranteed she’ll find a new love for the truck just the way it is………..
My Fleet: 19411953195919651966 1953 Willy's Pickup John Vegetarian- old Indian word for bad hunter
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 | LOL - John, that's an excellent idea!!
Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
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