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:LOL: OK, just to show that this truck does work on occasion, John got the it loaded up today, ready for departing tomorrow for the show at the Frederick County Fairgrounds in Clear Brook, VA. I...

This past Friday night we cut and buffed the F7 hood to get rid of some dust nibs, and Saturday morning Jared and I started to reassemble the hood. The horn wiring had some dry and cracking...

So every time we place the hood on my folding stand, the hood skin deflects upward at those pressure points (corners). Which means that won't work for blocking out the hood. So lets' use the same...

Thought I'd do a progression of pictures to show the carnage we started with on the hood brace to where it was painted this past weekend....

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Thanks Guys!!


The 51 F7 hood is closer to reuniting with the brace with the newly repaired ends.. Epoxy primer will be under the brace this time around to help prevent the new side patches from...

We have a few more spots to fix from cracking and fatigue, namely the holes on the underside for the rubber hood bumpers. We've already repaired three, and from the looks of it, need to take care of...

Our last end for the hood brace. Off with the old.....


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Then it gets trimmed to our scribe line and the end media blasted...

More progress on the hood, here is the other end of the hood brace.


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Looking at the back side, you can see where a few...

Thanks for the comments and following along with our progress!


Starting on the other end of the hood brace, this one not as rotted as the other but has issues just the same. One of those "while...

Prior to welding I used 80 grit garnet to clean the green paint away from the seam. After welding the weld seams were dressed with a 80 grit roloc disc, then 80 grit on DA

Time to get the hood brace end welded in place. The overall measurement had been taken prior to cutting off the old one, down to the 14 gauge outer plate as a reference. So the new end is trimmed...

Progress on the hood, the bead details in the brace are offset on the ends to match the hood opening flange. So we use a Vernier protractor to find the angle, and transfer that to our panel. This...

But wait, there's more!! :LOL:


Now to fine tune our dies for the hood brace. Looking at our original profile template, the first upsweep (red arrow) and second upsweep (yellow arrow) are both...

Had to include Cosmo.. :LOL:


The TIG is used to fully weld the patches in place...


Front side:


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A slight distraction..... I've always said we should be using butt welds, and trimming panels as tightly as we can get them. Some recent shop work helps to show that process, so hopefully this...

The Biederman truck we did some rust repairs and metal fabrication on found its way onto the cover of the latest issue of Wheels of Time. It has a feature article on the restoration John did on the...

Stick a fork in it, we are done!!!!!!!!!!!


John has the Biederman loaded up and is headed up to Macungie PA today for the truck show this weekend.

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To finish off the running board skirts, some epoxy primer was brushed into the hem fold, given a couple days to cure, and then seam sealer added to keep out the moisture..

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The old version had multiple parts, the lower piece formed a tray for the skirt to rest in, shown here on the right...

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John stopped by the shop last night so we could fit up the running board skirts on the Biederman.



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Been tripping over the 8’ linear slide on the Lennox for the past couple months, time to knock out these Biederman skirts so we can break the linear slide down. This will likely be the last...

An update on the Biederman truck, John came across a donor truck with an authentic 1947 Galion dump body, which matches his 47 Biederman perfectly.

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He plans on an era correct dump body (or re-creation of one) and after that he will likely show it a couple years and find a museum home for it.

Here's the Biederman at the show in Lexington KY last week for the 2018 ATHS Convention.



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Thanks for the comments guys. Ryan, not sure which one came first...


John got the hood installed, and truck is loaded up for the trek to Lexington KY for the ATHS Convention.



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