The Good Grandson, David Hill

Cab is down and here are the rear cab mounts. I still get a kick out of them. Not sure what the purpose was unless it was to let the frame and cab flex under a twisted load or rough ground. Shackles like on a rear end. Yes they are factory correct.

Brake booster is on. So is the steering box, Steering wheel, suspension hooked up and more. It has some tight steering. No play. David and grandpa will like that. The play before was about half a turn. lol

Few other things are done but for now that's it's. More pictures as the build goes. Hope everyone is digging what they see so far.

Nice, its coming along nicely. Wish I could say the same about the 64. Sloooooooooooow

Bring it up. The shop is open. $$$

I need to bring you the '47 if it doesn't sell on evilBay.

Stock 350 or even a 305 with a 700R trans and a 4x4 S10 rear end would have the 47. streetable to go anyplace and would put it in the market if you did sell it. People want to be able to jump in their cars and turn a key and drive them like a daily.

Bed is just a tad bit too long for a hot rod. You see where this is going huh?

David and I worked on the bed a little today. We managed to get the post off without messing up the patina. The post will be welded back on the bedsides.

David busted his butt today getting stuff done. I got the cold chills and I was done early. I'll be glad when warmer weather is here.


Cleaning up the dizzy.


Gutted the inside and getting it ready for some paint.

I did manage to get the new cowl rubber and brackets on and whipped up that snazzy copper line for the power brakes. I'll be running copper under the hood to give it a little flash.

2/7/2015

You can see the wheel well is not centered. It's off more than normal in the picture because the cut is just the rough cut. By the time we are done the wheel will be centered better than Chevrolet did it.
Earl stopped by today and helped tape up the truck. Thanks for the help nephew.

I tried to get David to do a white firewall. He bucked up and went flat black. That's fine. I talked him into painting the inside to give it a little something, something.. He wanted to go flat black in there but I managed to talk him out of it. It wasn't easy. I think he just got tired of hearing me crybaby.

It was sanded down good, went over it again with a scuffing pad then cleaned it all up. Taped it up and getting ready to primer.

David doesn't like to tape.


He was doing a good job but I think it just wasn't fast paced enough for him.


Did I mention that David really hates to take stuff up. lol

Primed and ready to spray color.

Looks like its coming along, it looks good to me.....

Looks great, nice work, I really like the white.

David didn't like the way the shifter was bent. It was over too far to the left side. I figured if I was going to bend it why not do something a little more stylish.

Before


I heat the stick up and made a few bends. Hard to see from the pics but it loops back and is bent over to the right to make a nice swoop. It was then ground down and smoothed out.


A little primer

While I was working on the shifter Amy scrubbed the seat a few times and then soaked it with a protectant to try to take some of the dryness out of the seat. It had some type of paint on it that she used nail polish remover to try to get it off. Most of it come off.

I worked on the door latch and window on the drivers side. The window was stuck and the latch doesn't work. Not much luck on the latch but got the window up.

Nice! First day working nights wore me out, haven't had sleep on over a day but now I wanna come up and work on it after I saw those pics haha

The firewall would have looked much better in white. At least you got the inside proper.

The shifter looks good bent like that....