Well it has been a crazy week or two. I'll start with the really great news. My wife and I just found out thats she's pregnant. We are totally stoked. Hopefully its a boy but we will see. The other good news is that i finally saved up enough money to get the bead roller i have been wanting. I got a Mittler Brothers 36" bead roller with the upgraded motor so it can safely do 16-18g steel. So i finally got to build the inner fenders for the bed because i was waiting for the bead roller. I am extremely happy with the overall turnout especially since it was my first ever built fender. I am actually excited to build the other side which hopefully get it done this week. I also build new inner bedsides. I went with something simple and clean. I figured after there painted it will look better simpler. I made it so the fenders bolt to the bedsides because it will be easier to paint and color sand if there not in the way. Anyways heres a bunch of pics. I got a little photo happy.

Josh

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A few more pics. The pics with the new bedside mocked up is only mocked up. I modified the cutout for the bedside to match the inner fenders arc. I also made it so the inner fender is a bolt in style only because i thought it would be easier to paint and color sand without the fender in the way. I changed the way the front panel looks also but don't have any pics right now. I am going to build the other inner fender then weld in the new bedsides. Tried to go with a clean and simple look to match the overall appreance of the truck.

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Outstanding job Josh. I have been trying to decide how i am going to handle the bed floor moving up in our truck. You have given me inspiration. I love the bead roller. We still have the u-crankit type. You gotta love tools. Keep up the awesome work. I'm hoping to make sparks in a week or so. :thumbsup:

I got a little more progress done. I decided to work on the bed until its completly done minus paint and body. So i have been focusing all of my energy on that. I built new inner bedsides skins and changed the front bed panel to match the sides. I also took some 1 1/4" wood and jointed it, plained it down to the correct thickness I needed for the wood floor. I took stainless flat bars and welded studs on them so all the bolts will be under the bed so you don't see any bolts or anything from the top. The stainless will be polished at a later date. I recessed it down so its all flush. There not bolted in yet so in some of the pics they might look tighten down and the wood is just sitting there so the aren't fully aligned yet. My table saw broke some sort of pin so i couldn't finish the wood and i also ran out of the stainless flat bar. Thats why some are missing. Anyways heres some pics.


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Josh

A few more. I am going to build a rear panel to hide the edges of the wood and continue that around the rear stake post so you don't see any of the edges there either.

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WOW looks amazing

Beautiful work Josh!!!:thumbsup:

John

Very nice!

Isn't wood for boats? Just kidding man. Looks killer. By the way this is Curt from the old ProRides. Josh said he talked to ya a few times. That bead roller looks like its working out pretty good for ya. Keep up the killer work.

Wait a minute. All this time i thought wood was for trucks and now your telling me that its for boats. Now i am really confused:willy: :lol: . Did i miss something but you said OLD ProRides? Did you sell the business or something along those lines? Yeah Josh has been a lot of help. This is my first rodeo so its great when people like him give me pointers. Yeah i love the bead roller. I really want to get some more dies but need to budget my money because I already threw my budgeted money out the window so now every penny counts:D .


Thanks everyone else for the kind words. I have alot of hours invested in this and its nice to know that i am on the right track. Talk to you all later

Josh

Looking good,

At least with a Bed floor you have a chance at Truck of the Year. Apparently trucks have to have bed floors, or so I have been told...:D

That's not fair. Tell the rest of the story, just like it happened.

I still think one bale of hay would be a laugh, to it have sitting in the bed when some gubber walks up and starts flapping his gums.

Mick

Well, it a long story on the RPM/ProRides deal but to make it short, I started RPM 7 years ago, My friend Mike and his cousin Denny started ProRides a few years back. We at the shop (RPM) finished & built a lot of projects for them. 56 OLDS, finished and fixed what we could on the STARLINER, 33 Speedstar, 37 Roadster, just to name a few. I never really marketed RPM because everyone just knew us as the ProRides name nationally. Locally in Pittsburgh it a different story. The ProRides name was more like a bunch of friends putting a name on their club house than a business. To Mike & Denny it was still a hobby, they both HAD careers not related to the car world, to me and my guys and our families its our life!!! Denny has recently started a new business adventure in the car industry called Collectible Cars by Design. Buying and selling all types of killer cars with a group of investors.... At RPM we build cars for customers, we don't sell cars to people. We are still great friends and we are building two cars for Mike as we speak. Denny still dubs his own projects as ProRides. That is the short story I hope it helps. We have 3 cars that we are planning on busting out in the next month or so, 2 being at Columbus and a model A at Indy in a few weeks. Then we hope to have a great 8 contender at Detroit!!! I hope our projects help tell the RPM/Prorides story and get things straight once and for all. I guess it still wasn't short!!!

I just hope my truck and your truck are never in the same catagory because that would suck to be beat by a truck with no bed floor. What would i tell my friends!!!:rofl: :rofl:

Okay now i understand. Thats cool that you guys still are good friends and it sounds like the relationship wasn't hurt which is usually what happens. Got any pics of that 33 speedster? That is one bad ride!

Josh

Well Carter nailed the rendering. He got some time to finalize the rendering and it came out great. So what do you all think. Is the truck going in the right direction? I wanted a clean, simple but yet still aggressive.

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Man Carter does some cool stuff. I'll see what I can dig up on the speedstar anything your looking for on it. I have pictures on the complete build.

I just love the stance of those cars. Anything you got i would love to see. You could email me some pics or just post them. Either way would be great. Looking forward to seeing those pics.

Josh

Heres a few shoots of it finished.

I love the look you have going. One thing looks a bit off to me, the windshield trim. I think if you are planning on running the chrome windshield trim (I like it and think it breaks up the blue), you may consider running the thin chrome trim around the two grille openings and possibly even chrome headlight bezel trim, I think it would tie it all in to the chrome windshield trim. If you disagree your not going to hurt my feelings though, just thought I would say what stood out! Awesome build, and great rendering by Carter (again)!

any updates? is it finished? :_paranoid

Any updates, pics?? :mad:

it must be c-10 day :) but i would like an update too