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Danny Boy is BAACK! w/ '55 Big Window
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Dan in Pasadena
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Re: Danny Boy is BAACK! w/ '55 Big Window
Okay, I promised some better-than-crappy-cell-phone-pictures and here they are. My truck wearing "new" vintage shoes. I want to polish that outer lip but I'll get to it...eventually.
I also finished grinding out the spot welds the original owner used to hold a thick piece of sheet metal down over the wood floor. As expected the wood is shot. A lot rotted and I pulled it out by hand. Incredibly, there is ZERO cancer under that plate! Even though there was dirt packed solid and hard around the edge - which was undoubtedly wet over the years - there's no rot through. Not even that much surface rust.
I also found one of those Velcro heat shields for my starter today at O'Reilly's. Haven't installed it yet but once I do I intend to take the truck out for a long drive to see if it works.
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