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Originally Posted by Montierth
The rocker panels are the catalyst for a truck to be garaged for years! That is how mine got started. Look at the rockers and say - huh this is a weekend job and it will be back on the street by Monday. Monday rolls around and you have the whole front clip removed, the cab stripped and the bed across the garage!
I did all the work myself including painting. I figure the truck has lasted 49 years and after I have cut out all the rust and treated all the rust it should last as long as I'm around.
Good job on the wood. That is a lot of work to make it all. Are you gonna stain or paint it? What type of wood?
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I’m fortunate to possess a truck with all the factory sheet metal and other than THREE Rust holes in the rocker panels, there is no rust anywhere. I bought it in 1992 and as near as I can figure, it’s never been in the Rust Belt. It started life first delivered in South Dakota, then moved to Wyoming, then Tennessee, where bought it from a fellow soldier. I’ve only driven it North of the Ohio River once, in the summer, and very seldom drive it in the winter months (I have three other vehicles).
On my bed wood:
First I went to a Lumber yard and Hand picked each Southern Yellow Pine board.
I cut and routered The boards using the measurements from GMC Paul’s.
For the stain I kicked around maybe staining it a shade of Green, to sorta match the Medium Olive body color, but went with a combo of stains (then covered it with Boiled Linseed Oil to protect it) to make a color that’s close to the wood grain color inside the cab. I’m going to paint my bed strips Medium Olive, so my vision is to tie the colors together.
I hope I didn’t bore anyone, but that’s my plan.
