Quote Originally Posted by Scooting View Post
Bam, I admire your metal working skills and wish I was a third as good. Looking at the begining of your work, I kept wondering why you started with a truck with so much rust and dents, perhaps you were back in the rust belt. I then saw you were in California and was surprised that you did not have a better start on a body. If you get into this again, come to New Mexico and purchase a body. I am sure you could save 2-3 months of welding work with the difference in body shape. Plus the 55-59s are around every day. I really like your pancaked hood, always wanted to do that. Lots of nice touches, keep on trucking. (just had to put that in)
Actually I rather like starting with a basket case of a project. It helps improve the skills and also allows me to save another truck that would have been headed for the scrape yard. Its fun to watch a piece of junk turn into something of value (at least valuable to me I spent a lot of time on it). Its been a fun build so far and its worth the effort, especially since was going to cut it up and mod it out anyways.

Thanks for the comments buddy its appreciated.