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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
LOVE your truck. Personally, I would give it a very light color sand with like 2000 grit and polish/wax it. Obviously, avoid removing the door graphics.
If you go through to the factory primer, so much the better. Then it’ll have TRUE “patina” - a word I hate because most guys treat decades of neglect and rust as sacred instead of appreciating an original paint job maintained over decades of time. Which is what I consider real patina. Great that you had it re-wired and ran new exhaust. Hope you find your heating problem. I assume by now you’ve tried every chemical available at your local NAPA or parts store?
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01-19-2018, 03:59 AM
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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
Shane
People only dream about a find like you came across, Looking good. On the heating issue look on youtube to see if someone has fixed this problem. Where did you get the front fender brace? Why did such a nice young lady chose you? Keep on keepin on Nut Case 
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01-19-2018, 11:52 AM
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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
I worked for an old school mechanic when I was in college. He had a variety of tricks for overheating engines. The best was just reverse flushing the block. The holes in your radiator, heater core, and head gasket are quite small. it doesn't take much to plug things up.
Take a look at this video and all the garbage coming out of the block. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JllvVHKo07U |
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01-19-2018, 11:54 AM
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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
BTW- Love the truck. It's the coolest truck I've seen in a long time.
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01-21-2018, 06:38 PM
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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
thank you guys so much! I used the truck in my music video for my holiday song this year.. check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8xjyyHp180 I've never heard of back flushing. I'm going to check this out now. Thanks guys!! |
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01-21-2018, 07:49 PM
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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
Love the TRUCK and wife and I really love your MUSIC keep it up.
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01-21-2018, 08:24 PM
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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
Shane, very impressive video! Truck looked really cool there...
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01-21-2018, 08:31 PM
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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
wow!!!...what a video...obviously not your first...very cool
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01-22-2018, 06:35 PM
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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
The truck looked awesome in the video, and very nice vid and singing!
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01-24-2018, 09:24 PM
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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
Nice looking find, good use of it in your video!
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01-25-2018, 08:45 AM
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Re: 1955 Chevy Barn Find!
Truck looks great. Nice video
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