Quote Originally Posted by Mike P View Post
Perly it has the stock frame under it with the front portion boxed just past where the Mustang II front suspension was added (work that was done prior to me buying it). Ill finish boxing the rest of it when I get the body off. The rear has a Nova 10 Bolt on stock springs and some ugly hanger, I’ll be changing that out for a Dana 60 with 4.56 gears, new springs, hangers and I’m planning on building a set of Caltrac style bars for it.



“......Now for the grinding, and grinding, and grinding......”

And when that’s done I can take the cab off flip it over and do the bottom.

“.....Maybe we should rate difficulty of a project by how many grinding wheels and rolls of sandpaper they consume?????......”


Dave, Pugsy that might be a pretty good indicator

On a lot of my projects I keep a pretty detailed spread sheet on what I spend on parts (not happening on this one!!!). One thing I don’t keep track of are the expendables; welder and torch supplies, grinding and cut off wheels, sand paper, sealers, new nuts and bolts etc. On a project like this I could see it easily adding $1000-1500.
Yeah I know what you mean....... On this one I'm keeping track of everything, just so I know. It kills me when you hear someone tell how they built a such and such and only have $1000.00 in it. And I can see lots of welding on chassis, and body. It's one of them deals, they already had, or were given, $5000.00 worth of parts, and spent $1000.00 cash, but did not count, as you put it, expendables. I know I had at least $200.00 in MIG wire alone, on my 48 cab, just the cab. But the nickle and dime stuff you might not want to add up............ probably just make ya sick............