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A few more pics of my progress.

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Looks Great!

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More progress tonight. I have finally removed all of my bracing. The A post is done. The outer rocker is lined up. Still need to do the left cab corner. Still have alot of grinding to do underneath. Tonight we started smoothing the fire wall.

Pic 1 is me
Pic 2 is my neighbor and fellow member SDailey
Pic 3 is the Left A post
Pic 4 is a rust hole that was patched. The gas filler hole will be plugged soon.

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damn it!!! im jelous how the hell do you guys afford, these shops tractors, trucks, parts, and all this stuff you post??? im in the wrong buisness, anyways nice truck man, awesome work so far keep the pics coming!

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Alan your doing a great job on the 65,when you are done with it looking at all your progress in pictures you can tell you are one hell of a body man!!Your 65 will look new when your done...:chevy::chevy:

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Thanks man! I appreciate the comment.

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no problem!! hard find good metal body man now days.:metal:

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Looking good!! Can't wait to see more progress!!

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hey i was just curious, are you using filler on the floors? mind if I ask why?

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I have a sickness:lol: It's being a little on the anal side.

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:lol::thumbs:

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Alan what size motor and tranny you going put in your 65?:chevy:

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I have a 383 that I built several years ago and I'm going to put a 700R4 behind it and a 373 posi.

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that be good combo:metal:

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Smoothing the firewall.

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very cool :metal: Nice work man, keep the pics rolling in! :chevy:

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are you gonna run it with out heat/air?

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I will use a ac/heater unit under the dash with a bulkhead plate on the firewall similar to this.

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For some reason my pic upload failed. I will try again later

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Here they are

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cool, that's very clean

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I was thinking the same thing!

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I know people will never see it after it's all done, but until I get it done everyone will see it. It would always be in the back of my head unless I do it. That way I can say I did the best job that I could do. Like I mentioned before in a previous post it's a sickness. I thought a restoration is to restore it to like new condition. :lol:

On to the progress..............I finished welding up the firewall and tacked my fuel filler hole plug in place. I also prepped my outer rocker on the Lt side for welding. I still have to replace the Lt cab corner

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You're doing a good job on it, want to come and do rust repair on mine?:lol: I've got to get me a welder so I can save on body work, come to think of it I might want to learn how to weld. Anyone got a welder I can have so I can teach myself how to weld?:lol:

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I got a little more done. I'm waiting on another Lt cab corner because the one I had was wrong for some reason.

Pix
1-Firewall primed
2-Primed outside of the doors
3-Primed floor pan
4-Primed back panel
5-Good mark door blocked after 3 coats of primer. I got dizzy looking at the door so I thought I would prime and block to see everything. I've got alot of work to do.

As you can tell I decided to use new doors instead of repairing my old ones. It should save me a little time