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thanks Ol Blue!
been dickin' around with my deora. i know it's a show truck & goes for the wow factor & doesn't have to be practicable, but i want to make it more of an everyday truck. the sideways mounted gauges & steering column are going, almost have this '65 chevelle dash mounted in there like a conventional vehicle.
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which means the front clamshell door is not going to work. i'm eliminating it & etched some doors in the sides, opened up the wheelwells & got rid of the show truck exhausts
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have a exo-skeleton cage design in my head that will be next
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Right now it kinda reminds me of lunar vehicle...the chevelle dash should help get rid of that. Can't wait to see it progress.

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yeah, it does resemble some kind of space mobile, & it's almost a 50 yr old design! once the exo skeleton, f&r winches, big bumpers, cab rack, roof rack & a bunch of other junk goes on, hopefully should resemble something more earthbound
mix-mash interior so far. '65 chevelle dash, '95 firebird steering wheel, & i lengthened a '96 explorer console. got to make some window cranks & door handles
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Dash and console looks good in there. Takes some of the futuristic look away. Nice job

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dont know Dale, started a exo-skeleton cage & it still looks like a moon mobile, maybe once the bumpers & stuff are on....
closed out the door & sanded the pebble grain off
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thinking white with black bumpers & cage & these stripe decals i made on PAINT. the black wood is for cabinets inside, & the granite decal is for the floor & counter tops
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axles weren't wide enough, cut off the tubes, drilled them out & made them longer with some 1/8 tubing, added valve stems to the rims too. started the cage, the f&r tubes will eventually tie into the bumpers, the middle bars & ladder will tie into some rocksliders
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so far...
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Looking pretty bad @$$....

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dont know 'Ol Blue, still spacey looking. maybe if i cut the side windows more square-ish....
with this great summer weather, this has slowed down to the back burner, have managed to squeeze some stuff in though.
molded in the flip up windshield & front door, looked kinda plain so i added some 030 rod around the windows for trim. made a bed, couch, table, counter with cupboards & a flatscreen for inside.
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decided to go with the carbed chevy, the LS is too much eye-candy to waste on this, you will never see it once it's mounted, which meant moving the engine mounts & making a new tranny mount, & cutting off a bunch of he 2wd stuff as well. started a front bumper (will have a big guard of expanded steel), & just started the springs
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put a bunk bed in the topper
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yeah, i think if i square out the side windows some....prob. match the exo cage lines better. been making a couple cage mods
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Spacey or not it's looking cool. You're doing a lot of cool custom stuff to it.

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thanks Ol Blue!
squaring up the windows a bit sure helps i think
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check out what my oh so awesome wifey snagged at a garage sale for $20
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all of them new in the bags with decals & inst.
the Pete was only 5 bucks, it's a keeper i'll eventually build
the acura was 3 bucks. sorry tuner/import fans, this thing has a whack of cool parts that will be going on my trucks
planes were a couple bucks each, my son is all over them

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Your wife likes you alot obviously. ...lol

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yeah....sometimes though i think she does it just to keep me quiet, out of sight, out of mind, in my hole....
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put window pillars in the cab, wont install the side windows, but will cut a piece for a permanent window behind the pillar
front springs in, back ones almost ready to go in
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finally sittin' on it's own suspension
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I think the pillar in the window really helped it. It's looking real good

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yeah, i think that the roundy side windows didn't flow.
got a little more done, rock sliders are finished. still got to plumb & wire the motor, put front shocks in, steering gear, u-bolts & plates, exhaust & brake lines.
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added a 'puter for GPS'ing out in the boonies
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waiting for my winches to hurry up & get here so i can finish the bumpers
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almost ready to lay down some color
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calling it done
couple susp. shots before anything went on. pretty much impossible to side lay it now. color is toyota met. cashmere beige (??!!)
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couple more...
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in with the other junkers
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deora truck was somewhat off the wall, going to do a rebuild on something a little more normal-Blazer, another old clunker
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no body line down the hood, some 030 rod & filler...
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42" groundhawgs. the usual, big lift, big tires, stock-ish body. dont have a topper, so have to make someting
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just happened to notice these hawgs are almost the same size as the Peterbilt tires, hmmm....
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leafing threw my caster's catalog i see 49" swampers, a little bit of lift, six of those & a wrecker boom off the back. any opinions?
found some good prints of a Holmes 750, dont look like it would be to hard to make....
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Deora came out awesome. I love display case and it's one off custom builds inside. Keep up the good work

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thanks OlBlue!
case was courtesy of my wife. in the early 90's she worked at Kmart, then the canadian K's closed & she brought this nintendo display case home. if you pull off the auto stickers, there's nintendo wrote all over it.
started making a topper, & some of the rear susp. in.
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thinking 2 toning this one. wife says there's not enough color in the fleet & suggested yellow & white (gag!!?), but after looking at some yeller & white blazers,....maybe...

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not really a blazer update, dawg strikes again. was pouring rain outside so i let dieseldawg in the house. stupid me i let him wander into the bedroom & his tail tagged this '99 silverado off the dresser, bummer....oh well, not crazy about stock newer trucks anyways, another one to put on the "lift list"
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starting to dig the yella & white a little more (web shot)
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One swipe of the tail and totaled. ..wow! LOL. I like the wrecker idea and I have always liked yellow and white. My two cents

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yeah,.. like i said, my own fault thought, can't really criticize dawg when i let the big dummy with a 10lb tail come into the bedroom. just what i need, another clunker to re-do...still got this in the back of my brain like a splinter, hoping to git r done soon! maybe a big n little wrecker combo
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I like wrecker.I drove for 12 years...

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hey, cool!
got any pic's?
ALWAYS use idea's....