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My son and his family came to see my new granddaughter a few weeks ago. With all the new cases of covid in the state we did my grandsons birthday party via ZOOM today. Better safe than sorry , Thanksgiving will be a smaller get together this year.

Vintage Headlights
 

Oops ! I forgot to respond to this :

The proper thing to clean & polish old silvered reflectors if lamp black, art stores still sell it .

Last time I used cotton balls .

Then I tried having the old reflectors chromes and Lo ! they looked great and worked well enough to drive at night with the original 6 volt bulbs, they were 30 watt or so .

The 1157 bulb isn't going to illuminate enough to be safe but will at least make the lamps look good .

There is no shortage of original style headlight bulbs, no one wants them anymore .

'A' model F***s use the correct socket, easily available re pop .

Keep up the good works .

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I am honored to have my little truck in the Truck of the Month contest. https://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vbo...d.php?t=814824 :chevy:

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Thanks to those that voted for my truck.

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I like your thinking on the older trucks. (fix whats broken, drive with the rest)
I am new to this age of truck but absolutely love my newest addition. The plan is to follow your lead and get my old girl going.

Thanks and by the way, when I looked behind a metal plate on the firewall, I discovered that mine was originally blue also. So we got that in common.

Your yellow wires look great.

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Thanks.
I'm learning a lot more about these older trucks . I've been running the 67-72 trucks for almost 40 yrs.
I'll do upgrades from time to time as the $'s allow.
I really like the wires and would like to find a couple of hub caps for the drivers side but I didn't want to buy brand new if there are good usable ones out there somewhere.

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I got this info from AACA forum.
[QUOTE BY DAVE BAKER FROM AACA FORUM:]
Posted November 15
I helped bring back to life a 1935 Chevrolet truck that had last run in 1980. It was a farm truck owned by two old farmers. 34,000 act miles this is not perfect but is a wonderful reference truck . The one unusual think about the 1934-35 trucks, the only color interior offered was green it did not matter what the exterior color was the interior was green. [/quote ]

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I'm surprised to read this cause mine is black and blue inside. I don't know if the earlier 30s models were this way or not.

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I love that truck, I voted for you and was really hoping you’d win. That old truck is perfect! Where in southern Colorado are you out curiosity?

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Thanks for the vote . We really like the truck. The previous owner did a nice job on a lot of things . I want to improve on only a few . We're just outside Canon City.

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You guys have such complete solid originals. I'm glad to see you leaving them be other than what they need to run and drive... same as always.

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End to That story already...I sold the '71 to a friends wife , she's giving it to him for Christmas. :metal:

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I have been trying to search for a couple of driver quality hubcaps to match the ones I have . All the reproduction ones I see are different . My caps have center area with texture around the Bowtie and the repop has a smooth transition to the emblem. I have the 6 lug wire wheel which takes a different cap than the artillery wheel and bigger than the 5 lug wire caps. I may have to just buy 5 repops to have a matched set.:waah:

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Repops look nice...and will give you time to find originals

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I'll keep my eyes open for some decent original caps.

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I would appreciate that Tim. We WILL have swap meets again someday.:sumo: I haven't been to one since we got the '35.:waah:

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The caps fit wire wheel only but look like the artillery wheel caps which don't have any way to retain it to the wheel.

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Good you pointed that out. Not to get your hopes up. Same here with swap meets last year. But I know some antique truck people and will put the word out.

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I installed some new taillights on the Truck on Sunday.

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Backed her out in the sunshine last weekend ,let it run for a bit and swept out the Conex.

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WOW, what a cool old girl, I love it just the way you have it!!!!

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Thanks! The whole family loves it. This was a picture of the morning back in October when my oldest granddaughter got a ride to school while her baby sister was being brought into the world. She was not allowed in the delivery room or to wait at the hospital to greet her . Thanks to the corona virus :( . None of us were. So we kept her at our house and I gave her a ride to school instead :) .

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We have had it home a little over a year now. Sure are enjoying it. These pictures are from November when the Wife and I were out taking pictures to put on our Christmas card

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The last couple of weekends I've dropped the fuel tank I installed last year to put the float in correctly ( 4 hour job on 3-7 ) I had the float on the wrong side of the sender.

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Monday I received a new hood prop kit from The Filling Station , after going to the hardware store and buying bigger u bolts and re-drilling some holes I got it mounted . :metal:

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Made a little upgrade a couple of weekends ago. I used some Beetle kill pine to make some sideboards.

Side Boards
 

Well done Sir ! .

Wherever you live, looks nice to me .

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Very nice, it looks perfect...

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Fits right in.
Looks like they belong there.
Great Job:metal:









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Thanks Nate .:) We've been here 33 yrs next month.
Thanks Dale . The Wife said "now you need to just buy the new hubcaps", so I ordered them only to be told they're on back order. :whine:

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Hub caps would be nice. But in my opinion it still looks like a working truck while you're waiting. It looks great!

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Looks good with the side boards and I like the Super Service sign touch.

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Thanks. Someone told me the pine would yellow , I said good "it'll match the wheels" .

Thanks!
Thanks, the color on the signs match the truck perfect.

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My grandaughter suggested something across the back to keep things from falling out. ;) I said " you mean a tailgate?" . So now I'm working on that.

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Got some hardware on the gate today . I also replaced the bushing in the steering column mount. The third picture is what was on the column for a bushing, some kind of butyl wrap that almost looked like electrical tape.

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We were out for a Sunday drive last week and saw something I needed.

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This trunk was on a trailer at the same corner store as that really cool truck. I had to have it. It fits perfect. :metal: And its useful.

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Nice, the trunk looks nice.

Uh, Oh ~
 

? Are you going to buy a Brand 'F' TT ? .

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:lol:
No That is the advertisement SIGN for the antique store where we bought the trunk. It used to belong to a friend of mine that sold it to the store to use as a SIGN for their business.