Not Another Rebuild Thread....

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by bj383ss

Love the video. Thanks for sharing. Being one of those guys that prides himself in recognizing vehicles at least older ones by their headlights at night. You are going to have some people stumped. LOL.

Bret

Know exactly what you mean regarding both front and rear light recognition.

[Jeff La]

I like the tail light idea, think it'll look great

[bj383ss]

Cool. So one of the white lenses is the backup lights. Is the other a turn signal or just a reflector! Love that Caddy!

Bret

[coulter]

cant wait to see the tail light mod!!! thats gonna look good

[jlsanborn]

Thanks for the preview! Anxious to see how you incorporate those

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by Jeff La

I like the tail light idea, think it'll look great

Thanks, I have high hopes for it.

Originally Posted by bj383ss

Cool. So one of the white lenses is the backup lights. Is the other a turn signal or just a reflector! Love that Caddy!
Bret

The bottom white lens is back up lights, center is brake and turn signal, and top is just dead space. I have a red lens light I am thinking about mounting in the top section to make it turn signal only so it will light up in conjunction with the center section. I will have to play with it a bit first.

Originally Posted by coulter

cant wait to see the tail light mod!!! thats gonna look good

thanks man, cannot wait to see what you pull out of your hat next on your build too !!

Originally Posted by jlsanborn

Thanks for the preview! Anxious to see how you incorporate those

The whole back end is going to be something special IMO.... hang in there, its coming !!!

[Ta2Don]

Just when I thought, "What else can Murph have up his sleeve…"

Evil Genius is just the beginning...

[piratexpress1369a]

cool .wonder if you could fit led lights into the caddy tail light

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Just when I thought, "What else can Murph have up his sleeve…"

Evil Genius is just the beginning...

Hey got a look at your emblem graphic last night at Jay's house, he is really a great guy and I know you are going to be thrilled with what he produces for you!!
I am SO glad you got in touch with him, I hope more guys do !

Originally Posted by fordguy

I joined this site just so I could post on your thread. awesome build

I am too humbled to imagine what to say to that...
I guess, Welcome Aboard, and please take the time to check out some of the other builds, there are guys here with TONS more skills doing things far more imaginative and better engineered than my tinker toy here !!

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

cool .wonder if you could fit led lights into the caddy tail light

No doubt.
The wells in those turn signal lanterns have lots of room to work with.

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Now for some photos !!!


Next step on my hood was to marry up the valence to the hood.
I had long ago admired the filled seam look that others have done so decided I would try my hand at it too !!


This is my d-side corner. Oddly both hoods, the donor GMC and my stock Chevy hoods had taken damage on this corner and no amount of massaging could get them to align up 100% (I had much better luck on the p-side) So this was as good as it was going to get:


I used a welding rod as filler for the gap:


This is after a lot of welding and grinding, shot with some filler primer and sanded down to ID the high-low/trouble spots.
I am not 100% jazzed with the outcome, but I am happy I got it looking this good at least:


Top shot of that corner:::


More tomorrow...hopefully !!
Rock on dudes

[McMurphy]

Ok guys it is tomorrow, and here is more:

All the primary welding is done, and this is how the p-side looked after some filler primer and sanding to ID the trouble spots...


In this photo you can see the "beak" look I was talking about earlier that I like so much about the GMC style hoods.


Here is an edge-on of my fill job...not too shabby I guess eh?


And just one for the glamor of it:


Got a busy weekend with duty, and possibly skiing so it may be a few days before I get the filler and sanding photos up, and also the profile mod I did....

Thanks for looking everyone !!

[Ta2Don]

Very Nice!!!

[McMurphy]

So I wanted to change the profile of my hood.
Not radically mind you, but enough to not be stock.

The plan was to raise the center section of the hood (the contoured arrow area) a half inch, and the middle section of the hood a full inch at the body line.
I got as far as raising the center section, and have paused as it did not turn out 100% the way I wanted.
In typing this post just now, I realized how I should have done it, and may go ahead and pull the trigger on the middle section with this better plan in mind...

Here is the hood with my landmarks drawn in, getting ready to cut:


The cuts made and the fill pieces tack welded on:



And the area after all the welding was done. In this photo you can begin to see what I am not exactly pleased with, the trailing end of this mod seems to slope up like an Evel Knievel ramp:


This shows the slope better:


I could learn to live with it since it is symmetrical and slopes evenly across, but I was wanting more of a straight line wedge look than the slope. I know now I should have used some half inch angle and welded it in from the inside of the hood, and filled the outside as needed....

Which is why I may yet pull the trigger on raising the middle section of my hood, using the angle iron idea. (and yes, the angle iron laying on the hood in the first picture is what gave me the idea of how this should have gone...in case you figured that out too. LoL )

One of the reasons I want to raise the middle section of the hood, is to be able to mount 350 emblems on it....

[TJ's Chevy]

Good work!

[duallyjams]

What's the fun in just doing it once.

[Bomp]

Been lookin and keep peeking in, watching, almost studying, in the end you pull it off. Dang Murph, can't wait to see it all together.

[piratexpress1369a]

nice work

[Zane M]

Nice work on the hood.

[Ta2Don]

Diggin' the Evel Knievel ramp...

[Low Elco]

wonder if you can buy a standalone cowl hood scoop in metal for the sides, then graft your skin with the distinctive center peak to it?

[chad64chevy]

Originally Posted by Low Elco

wonder if you can buy a standalone cowl hood scoop in metal for the sides, then graft your skin with the distinctive center peak to it?

this is what I'm going to be doing this summer, I also got a new lmc book the other day and there a a section called share your truck journey, they have a website page to: it's called lmctrucklife.com, they guys truck says they used a center section from a 68 Camaro cowl hood, his hood and section from two other hoods! looks great, I just got to buy the cowl hood and get after it, lol!!

[Jeff La]

Another great Murphing, subtle yet different, you really have to look for it. I like

[International Texan]

Great work man. Always doing something just a little different, you have a great eye.

[Modges'66]

Murph!
You are truly a glutton for punishment!
To mess with the biggest panel on the truck is really aggressive.
I admire your determination, but dude, you're kinda insane!!!

[flips72]

where do you come up with all these ideas?, must be the pizza cant wait to see the hood, stay warm.

[Bomp]

All I can say is that this modification of yours has influenced me to go ahead with something that was tucked away in the back of my head.
Very Motivational.