I agree Mike.

I think this build will help stoke that fire some more though. :thumbsup:

Back to topic...the Craftsman touches are so cool IMO.

I have been up close to this truck for the entire build. You will be hard pressed to find a more precisely put together 67 -72 c10.
The fit is crazy perfect, lines are lazer straight and the finish is flawless, and thats just the stuff normal people will notice.
This truck is just nuts. The guys at RS are such a talented group of guys. They took everything they learned on the orange truck and ratcheted it up (tool humor).
If you go to SEMA make sure you don't miss the other two chevy trucks they just finished for for the show (one is blue & one is green). The talent inside the walls of The Roadster Shop is mind boggling, I learn something new every time I walk in the door.

Dan,

Great post... makes me want to see alot of all 3 trucks they built. :thumbsup:

If I lived close enough to the Roadster Shop where I could go visit them, they would hate me!

ha aint lying. :getout:

:lol:

Vince,

But you were kind not to mention the 'pop-ins' at the MSperfab Estate during dinner with the family.

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Thanks for the compliments everyone!

Next video is up - wheels and tires:

First of all you guys really nailed the interior on this thing - its easy for a shop to kind of do the easy route and just slam in some over-leathered smoothed out street rod style interior, but you guys really came down in the perfect place combining the original utilitarian steel panelled stuff with some softer materials and brighter colors.

Question- in the interior episode it was mentioned that you stamped out the CRAFTSMAN logo on the tailgate "in aluminum". The tailgate looks so OEM I can't imagine you built the whole thing out of aluminum. Did the video mis-speak or did you actually integrate an aluminum piece into a restored OEM tailgate ? CAn you elaborate a bit on how that was done ? (not asking the secrets to the perfectly formed logo letters !)

In the video I caught something about laser cutting the letters and using them as a die to stamp the aluminum.

Andrew

I think his question is how they got the aluminum attached to the steel tailgate...??

I caught that too in the video....

To integrate the aluminum piece with the letters, we used 3M Panel Bond adhesive, a technique used in the collision industry and by automotive manufacturers to bond dissimilar materials.

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Well, the truck made it's official debut at the SEMA show last week and was a huge hit. We were also honored to take home a GM design award for the C-10 for best GM G-machine.

Hopefully in the next couple of days, I'll have some good completed pics. In the meantime, here are the next few videos to bring us up to date:

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With the truck heading for the Barrett Jackson Palm Beach auction block tomorrow (approx 3:30pm), it seems fitting to do a quick pic update of a few cool shots from the last few weeks.

The truck is being auctioned at the Barrett-Jackson event with proceeds going to 'Rebuilding Together Inc'.

Check out the auction listing HERE

We also have the entire collection of build videos in one place on our site here: www.roadstershop.com/craftsman-c10

And some pics: :thumbsup:

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Couple more...!

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That is such a beautiful truck. Excellent build!

Couldn't have said it better myself! I love this truck.

This truck is awesome on top of awesome. Then, mixed with a touch of bad a$$.

Just went across the block for $90,000