update:
3 years later and old whitey is still going strong!
update:
I was sitting at the corner in my handy dandy new 3/4, greatest truck ever, when guess what rolls by me?
the
STINKBUG!
i couldn't beleive it!
so it's still going and being used. good stuff...
thanks for coming out!
SORRY Y'ALL, I traded the bug for a '94 cheyenne 3/4 ton, she is gone now.
this is my new tow rig.
1978 gmc 3/4t, free of charge to me.
Fully loaded, and everything works!!!
Runs like a dream.
I will build this one for free also, its all just time.
Parts are free and plentiful, time is not.
Whoever ordered this truck new did an awesome job on the options list, but why the *^*@#$@% baby blue????
oh well, paint is very cheap....
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starting da body...
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FRONT END
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This door looks good on the outside, but is garbage. Again someone wasted alot of time.
The box is garbage, some other sucker with more ambition than me started to fix the one side. stupid.
honestly, what the hell were they thinking??????
The tire holds air for 10 minutes.
Here's a shot of my grill, hood thingie, and wheelwell strips i got.
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INTERIOR
0rig baby blue panels...........................to.........................black....
Door panels on old rotten door, note krusty door handle, more on that later.
Primer to metellic charcol paint...
Its hard to see the sparkle in these resized pics...
Dash blue to silver....
The last owner ripped out every peice of duct, good thing its free at the junkyard!
Undercoated, course i ran out at last part.
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I was going to paint the dash this colour but stopped at silver.
Which one looks better?
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Free c.d. decks. There o.k.
I have some nice power leather seats I got from a friend cause he owed me a favor, I have to go pick them up this week maybe. Im in no hurry.
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Wood Wheel
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Here is a wheel I found in the bush on an old ford econoline.
F.O.C. to me, i have $1.49 into this one, plus a few sheets of 180g.
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Up next is underlay, carpet, console, stereo, wheel, and finally leather buckets.
2.5% tint also, left over from my S-10
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DOORS...
100% rust-free doors!
100% rotten doors, the bottom 8" up of skin was split.
my gawd this is an ugly truck...
The snazzier chrome handles don't line up with the old black panels hole, so I had to swap handles side to side and cut n hack to make them work.
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BOX
Heres the box i missed by an hour. It was in the junkyard, and i had no cash. In the time it took me to go home and back, someone pulled it and was allready gone. What can you do? It was rust free and totally straight, mint taillights and gate. Really, the whole truck was mint. It was so fresh there isn't even a peice of snow on it yet, (how????) and it was still %100 complete. Why am i fixing this rusty peice of shit again??????? At least im not tryin to fix the box i got...
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Heres an ugly shot, to appreciate it even more when its done.
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All this Paint is $1.49 (each, duh) near my house
hi temp paint, zinc primer, vinyl dye,anodized base + topcoats,
hi bild primer...all good quality too
Here's the trippy soap at the local carwash. I bet you wish your carwash had trippy soap like this too....
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ENGINE...
Just a 350, which is all I need. Unbelivably still %100 bone stock.
4.3 serpintine belt conversion pics soon...
Stolen pic of said conversion
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...And now the moment you've all been waiting for... THE END!
isn't it beautiful?....
If your as bored as i think you are, be sure to check out my other rusty chebby truck/nitemare.
it looked just as sexy as the stinkbug when i first got 'er.
85 S-10 406
check out my other junk...
78 stingray
80 sunbird
and don't be cheap, leave a comment goddamn it!!!
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Here is a rare shot of optimus prime's lil' nephew in action.
Consider yourself lucky.
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