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Love this old truck
Also glad you figured out you want the hp
My old farm truck with patina was just supposed to
be an old beater driver. Now I am thinking out with
the small block and in with the billet crank destroked
Pontiac 455 that is now 440 inches. Big torque monster
Then do a tubular updated suspension etc

I guess us old hot rodders can't leave things alone:)

Bob

How wide are the rear wheels?

I see a lot of dish (or lip as the kids call it) but no inner tub in the bed?

Jeff-

The tire fits inside the fender only --- it's "okay" widthwise but it's not pro-poser-touring. I'd personally like to see a 315 back there - but then you either chop in to the bed ---- or widen the fender and that starts to get ugly. As a daily driver - more than anything else - it'll be fine.

Pretty cool truck for a race car driver.

Fixed it for ya!

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That is going to be cool.

Love this.

X2 great picture.

Truck looks fantastic, Greg. I really like the direction you're going with it. Thanks for sharing the journey with us.

Thanks Trey!

This shop has just been excellent to work with. They contact me with any question.... they bill - in detail - every 2 weeks - there are no surprises - and they have great ideas and totally seem to get the direction. So refreshing!

Pinkee's never asked me anything - mostly because - you'd actually have to be working on it once in awhile to have any questions! Only time I ever heard from them was when he wanted more money. LOL Took me asking several times to get a billing statement - and then it was just some phoney made up BS.

There's been more work done on the truck since JUNE than was done in the last 2 years! Mike told me it's only a couple months away from going to paint.

Oh man that must be a great feeling! I'd be lucky if I'm a couple years from paint...

The shop was a stop on our Good-Guys tour and they fed us as well as gave us a tour. Amazing shop. Well equipped and well run. Harold and Tracy the owners are friends of mine. Harold said he opened the shop because he was tired of getting ripped off by other shops. It looks like he has hired a good crew. Harold isn't gong to bill you because he needs the money. He doesn't need the money. He has plenty of his own projects. If there is a lull in customer projects he has the crew work on his to keep them busy. One of the nicer shops and car collections I have seen. Try not to screw this up Greg...........:bigun2:

Excellent vision turned reality. The truck is looking fantastic. I'm glad you found the right shop to build it for you. This looks like it will be a lot of fun.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the shops that think they have years to finish something. When you get my build - you better jump on it immediately and it best be finished in 2 years or less. A shop is not going to have to wait for money, or for me to make decisions.... If I have to wait on them - or they try to play cute - or feed me some BS about how long "X" takes to do (I've personally done just about everything on a car many times!). The other no no - try to build something I don't want. I'm very clear with what direction I'm going. If you have cool ideas - I'm the first guy to listen.... but if a shop wants to go their direction and not listen to me. Bye bye. LOL Remember that I was trying to die during this project -- so there was a year or so there when projects weren't important. So this one has taken longer because of that - but mostly it's taken longer because I should have pulled it after the first year....






Thank you! The vision is pretty simple - a nice daily driver that appears to be pretty stock while running down the road. However - running down the road with Lillard, Steilow, and Capen.... that kind of "running", is running Mach 1 !! So the "guts" of the build have to be solidly capable!! LOL

X 1,000,000

Next year might be Mach 2!

Crafty B makes a variety of gas caps that look a ton better than that Moal unit....

https://crafty-b.com/collections/all-gas-caps

LOL ---- No kidding Gordon!!! Actually -- I thought this year was much "tamer" than last or even the year before when I drove my '33......

Was super fun to hang with you and Liz for the week. I love doing these kinds of "car" things.










Thanks!!! I sent the link to the shop...... I like the "gashole" version but without that logo.

He can definitely do no logo, or even custom logos... I'm eventually going to find a place for one of his caps, I want mine to read "Stripper Glitter only"...

I just checked them out, Nice!

This is the color we're thinking of doing --- with mat black wheels - and mat black body line....



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Charley hates it -- so it must be perfect! LOL

Hmmm. I don't hate it....but it looks like all the lines of the car disappear. With the 40 being so round and the belt line popping with the black it'll probably look just fine.

What else you got?

Nardo... me likey!

looks like g5 sealer and clear to me!

I am a fan of gray. I painted my beater last week, ACE hardware calls it "Medium Gray Gloss" :sieg:

One of the colours on the initial palate for my last car was similar and the friend that was helping me spray it complained the test panel looked too much like primer with clear. I don't care, I like it.

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No offense Greg, but that is a very :BlahBlah: color imho.

I love it Greg. I've seen a few cars with that color and it's awesome. Black wheels and bronze colored wheels really go well with the color if you ask me. I say do it!! Dodge calls their color like that "Destroyer Grey." You may want to look at that shade too. They reason why I love it is because colors back in the day were flat and didn't have metallic, pearls, etc. and weren't too many options in a color choice, period. Therefore, it is only befitting to put a flat color on such an awesome truck.

We took the color and tweaked it.... so it's not exactly that color anymore but close.

And I'm 100% in agreement --- I want the truck to be 40/50's color. I'm never a fan of these 40's builds with hitech colors and rubberband tires. My goal has been to keep it fairly period looking - but updated modern driving/running etc. A guy is going to have to really "look" to find the details. I'm not trying to build a show car at all.... or a magazine build. It's just my nice old daily driver and I live in Idaho. LOL

"Destroyer Grey" because it destroys the look of the car..........

I asked Harold to start sending you the bills, so you can have your choices.

#ouch!

The truck is looking killer, man. Love that style.

Thanks Kevin!

Here are a RS Camaro and Challenger, plus a Ring Mustang that 'may' be a similar color to the sample posted grey posted. There's also another non-metallic grey '69 build on this board somewhere.

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Greg, Beautiful truck by the way, very well exucuted. If you are considering a silver color I would highly suggest taking the time to do a little spray out of a 1963 Pontiac Super Duty Swiss Cheese Catalina color called "Sterling Silver", without question the most stunning color I have ever seen. In the natural sunlight it is beyond words. You owe it to yourself to see this color in the sun if you are considering a silver. If you need the paint code or any information I have it and can forward it to you.

Tim john---

One of my favorite cars - '60's Pontiacs. Buddy had a navy blue one in high school --- with the bolt on wheels. Loved that car. Especially with a girl named Kiki Love in the back seat.... LOL


I don't want a metallic paint on the truck.... it'll be a solid color. The paint color we are working with is a custom -- and the Audi Nardo is only "close".... but the color changed with light. It was sprayed out on those clear body samples the paint companies use... and it went light to dark with the curves.

My color comments below........

...and here I don't see any blue.

I really like that color on the RS Camaro too.

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Perfect

Darker than the factory 40 gray, just for reference.