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Old 09-21-2009, 01:51 PM   #326
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy

turned out real well, great job
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Old 09-21-2009, 02:14 PM   #327
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WOW!!! great work I will also carry over some of the things you did to your to mine as well your story helps keep people like me motavated to work on mine..... Thanks
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Old 09-21-2009, 02:24 PM   #328
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Wow, what a read! You should write a book of stories from the assembly line! Don't recall seeing a book like that. Great job on the truck!
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Old 09-21-2009, 04:03 PM   #329
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WOW, beautiful! Fred is jealous!
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Old 09-22-2009, 12:32 AM   #330
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Looks awesome man!!! Is that a LMC floor mat?
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Old 09-22-2009, 05:31 AM   #331
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Looks awesome man!!! Is that a LMC floor mat?
No - Capt Kaos.

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Old 09-22-2009, 07:37 AM   #332
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy

Looks great Keith. You did an awesome job. Sweet little truck and a great thread. Thanks.
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Old 09-24-2009, 04:08 PM   #333
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AWESOME job! Looks fantastic!
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Old 09-29-2009, 08:33 PM   #334
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Ok - I lied...





Technically, I wasn't totally done - I was missing one lock rod knob.

It arrived today and my son Joseph wanted to make the installation.

He wanted to be able to say "...my Dad started this but I was the one that finished it!"

LOL!



Now it's done.

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Old 09-29-2009, 10:43 PM   #335
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Where did you get the door panels? They look like they fit pretty good. Thanks
Oh and are those tomatoes next to your truck, all of ours burned up months ago?
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Old 09-30-2009, 07:03 AM   #336
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Yes - those are from LMC.

I wasn't sure I was going to like them, because they are "blow molded" rather than injection molded - but - by the time you dress them out with the original trim, door handle pockets, arm rests, etc they look good to me.

Yes - we have a few tomatos left. We've had a very cool summer so no concerns with them "burning up".

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Old 09-30-2009, 08:40 AM   #337
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Nice to see it "Finally" done Keith. I bet it's a blast to drive all renewed again.
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Old 09-30-2009, 09:47 AM   #338
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Yep - it's a great driving little truck.

Kinda' fun to get the "thumbs up" while you're riding around in your daily driver! (I'd forgotten what that was like!).

Thanks, guys -

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Old 09-30-2009, 09:53 AM   #339
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Hey Keith I don't think your done. I was just noticing that you didn't put the emblems back on the front fenders. just kidding. I'm sure you meant to leave them off. Just thought I would give you a hard time. I may have even missed where you talked about not putting them back on.
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Old 09-30-2009, 10:15 AM   #340
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Hey Keith I don't think your done. I was just noticing that you didn't put the emblems back on the front fenders. just kidding. I'm sure you meant to leave them off. Just thought I would give you a hard time. I may have even missed where you talked about not putting them back on.
Zat the equivalent of "...hey, you missed a spot..."?!

Yep - that and leaving the tailgate clean are the only exterior visual differences from when it was new.

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PS - I always hated those "yellow" fender emblems, even when it was new! If you look back in the "before" pictures you can see the remains of where I had painted them black, back in the day.
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Old 09-30-2009, 10:45 AM   #341
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Yeah I just figured I would raz ya about it. Don't want to take anything away from the great job you did. for that!

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Old 09-30-2009, 10:57 AM   #342
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nicely done Keith!
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Old 09-30-2009, 11:53 AM   #343
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This photo is circa 1969; for the purposes of this discussion you may disregard the '65 GTO (which I also still have).

K[/QUOTE]I have a hard time disreguarding a 65 GTO, I had one! Loved it, quite a stroy about that car. Came (to me) as a 389 4 speed, and I found an SD421 in perfect low mileage condition out of a Super Tempest that had been wrapped around a new Mexico Pine tree about 5K miles after it was driven off the lot. My GTO was in great shape too, owned by an older guy who in (1976) just wanted to get rid of it for something with better mileage and get out from under what he named the GTO, my little ticket machine!

I stuck the SD421 in it and put in a Borg Warner Power Brute clutch and the thing was super fast. I was sitting at a stop sign one day, the clutch had such a hard pedal my leg would start shaking if I was stopped for more than about ten seconds, and I was just about to take off when a large almost pop scared the crap out of me and the headliner was smoking! I had no way to move the car because when the pop happened it stalled.

Turns out the clutch blew and grenaded itself and the reason the headliner was smoking is part of it, a piece about the size of a slice of pizza, was lodged in my ceiling! After retracing the path, it missed my left cheek by about a quarter inch, then I remembered something hot screming by my face.....

I got rid of it but sure wish I still had it.
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Old 09-30-2009, 03:39 PM   #344
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Pretty good weekend: Got the rest of the rally wheels painted and installed; pulled the speedo cable and lubed it, fixed the LH turn signal (which had stopped cancelling) - and - cleaned up the steering wheel and painted the steering column!






Oh - got all the lights burning, too (one back up lamp, both front side markers and both rear side markers were burned out).
hey how did you ever fix that dint in the door?
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Old 09-30-2009, 05:27 PM   #345
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I had the body shop pull it.

I fooled around with it but everytime I'd get it where I wanted it it would "oil can" and pop back in.

The driver's door was actually worse (because it was more creased) - I had them do both.

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Old 09-30-2009, 05:42 PM   #346
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The truck sure looks beautiful now. great restoration.
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yea i have that on both sides.my drivers door is bad.the guy who had it ,locked it and closed the door and it didnt close all the way and put his hip into it

so you think it can be fixed or i need a new door?
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yea i have that on both sides.my drivers door is bad.the guy who had it ,locked it and closed the door and it didnt close all the way and put his hip into it

so you think it can be fixed or i need a new door?
We use to call that the Chevy Truck Ass Dent back in the 70s and 80s because it was usually there because someone leaned their ass against the door and it went PLUNK, and there you go! We would pull that dent with a plunger or pop off the panel next time we hadda be "in there" and pop it out for a while till you'd be driving along and hear it go PLONK or DOINK and pop itself back in.

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lol yea i had the door panel off and pushed it out but it wont push out all the way becus the body line had a crease in it.
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yea i have that on both sides.my drivers door is bad.the guy who had it ,locked it and closed the door and it didnt close all the way and put his hip into it

so you think it can be fixed or i need a new door?
I think a good body shop can fix it. It looks alot like mine did.

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