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I'm coming in for the day on Saturday in my truck. What time do you guys recommend getting in Saturday morning?
The 57 truck. Wasn't my favorite, but a ton of work....
I just booked the Casulo. Anyone know anything about it? Making my first trip this year so would look to others for suggestions and ideas.
can never get hyperlinked pictures to work on here
Thanks for the compliments. This truck took 1st overall truck, mine was 2nd, and the firetruck 3rd. Mines a driver :) [IMG]...
not me...ha, yeah murray seemed like a pretty solid guy. 10,000 hours out of a 2 gar garage.
how strong are those suction cups? I would think the 50lb capacity of the neodymium magnet would be stronger, but I haven't tried to pull the...
This was my plan, just mount it in the OEM spot on the inside. Guess unless there is a ready made solution, I will buy a stocker and glue up a...
yeah absolutely, that would be fine too, but I bet a NEO magnet is stronger
I don't have drip rails anymore for a peep mirror except possibly attaching it to the side glass itself. The magnetic idea was for an interior...
I was thinking about using a magnetic base rear view mirror in my custom (55 chevy truck) with a felt pad to prevent scratches. I didn't want to...
Here are some pictures and the article that was written up....
drum wrap, idea came from another hamber. We were gonna do a turned aluminum with candy over but this was way easier and cheaper. I also...
I ended up doing a bit of a hybrid take on this upholstered idea (and a recent shot of some upcoming pictures)
I give art lessons if anyone is interested :)
I play guitar... tele parker fly hardtail custom strat (painted to match my truck) martin acoustic thru.... peavey delta blues vox Keep some...
laidout53, any new progress?
West Coast Debut
We are loading up the truck on Monday to head out. First time we've been on the Left Coast with it. Please say hi if you see me or Cody inside...
Here are some pics from Salina this year. We were awarded "most spectacular leadsled" and the Hub Harness HOF pick. Truck was 99% complete,...
Interior shots. Naug done by Walt in Kansas. Some sweet seats pirated from a mini-van of some sort and chopped up a bit. Was pretty happy with how...
Ok, paint time. Shot 3 or 4 different mixes of blue, pearl, and flake and got to this. Hard to see the flake, but some real variation in the blue...
Yeah I own it. Cody (darryl's grandson) took it up. He was in the showcase last year with a different truck. Was supposed to have it in that area...
For the front, liked the look of the olds grill, already put that info up previously, and the bottom was like the lil coffin rear pan. Here is...
That's me sitting behind it in the ballcap and my wife next to me. But you stole my punchline :D
Used conduit as a skeleton to skin sheet metal over. Here you can see the rear of the truck coming together. Used caddy tail lights turned...
Forgot one thing on the rendering post above Before I turned the truck over fulltime (2 kids, a job, a wife, etc etc), I had wanted to use a 47...
Yeah it's mine. Was at salina and Louisville. more to come
So first step was to fix the flat rear end that we welded up. Here are the pics of where it was started. Last one was right before the structure...
Found out a little over a year ago that I would be moving from Houston back to Oklahoma for work. My truck was still in Oklahoma in the initial...
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