Thread: 53 Is back from the Body Shop

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My 72 worked out the same way at paint jail. The guy is still suppose to paint the bed when he gets slow. Uh huh. I'll do it in the spring hopefully. I'm still waiting for him to fix momma's truck that I've already paid for.

Paint jail, lol. The good news is if push comes to shove, I am capable of painting yet

Originally Posted by randyr

In what I've observed on facebook, it doesn't look like they've cut up anything. Looks like they built a new chassis with Speedway parts and dropping the restored body on it with a few modern conveniences.

I checked it out, I bet they have a larger budget than me

Here is what I did today, re worked the top of my seat bracket where I cut it off for clearance for the new seat. I cut the tube down and replaced it with a donor pipe and put one of the eccentric balls out of Farmall M brake in the top. Welded everything up and smoothed it out and it turned out real nice. I got the frame sandblasted now and a little mud applied on some welds.

Stopped by my local tire guy to look at rims in the catalog and as fate would have it, he had the style I was looking at on hand that he ordered for another guy. He let me take one home and put it on to look at it. What do you think? Sorry about the blurry pics, my phone camera sucks.

Love the wheel choice!

Thanks, I think the painted center goes better with the green than an all chrome wheel would.

I agree, I really like it on there. Nice touch on the ball to finish off the seat frame too. That is nice thinking.

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

I agree, I really like it on there. Nice touch on the ball to finish off the seat frame too. That is nice thinking.

Growing up as a kid with little money, a persons eyes get trained to look for things that will fix a problem with little cost. It's still is a useful tool

I'm a grown up with little money.

X2 on the cheap fixes.

It doesn't always have to be top shelf liquor. The day after the hangover feels the same.

Yeah, I hear all that. I pretty much quit drinking due to the cost and the BS and time loss. I always have too much to do to lose more time. Haha

I think I hit a wall this week, hard to get myself to work on the pickup seat. Right now I am doing a bit of mudding on the seat frame and I hate every minute of body work. I can't say I do a bad job, the panels are straight when I'm done and I can lay paint pretty flat. That being said I think I would rather have a tooth pulled without Novocaine than do body work. Did I mention I hated body work? I tell you how much, I would rather accidentally sew my butt cheeks together than sand body filler.

That sounds like it might be painful. I'm going to blame the snow for my lack of progress. Haha

I think if you have a shed, the snow excuse doesn't work

Sure it does. You have extra work to do because of the snow. Someone has to move it.