workin on a truck...

[Longhorn Man]

I seem to have stumbled upon a little extra time off!
Not in a good way though. So I am looking for a little side work untill I can go back to work on the 5th.
After talkin to a buddy of mine, askin if he needs some stuff taken care of, he points out to his area of 'spare' vehicles, and said, the skunk needs some help man.
Ladys and gents, I introduce to you.... the skunk.

It's a beater 72 C/20 cheyenne super, with a 402/TH400/Dana rear, A/C, custom-ish bench seat, lots of bondo, and very... and I do mean very, little potential. The best thing this truck could ever do, is donate it's parts for better causes. But, my bud wants to hold onto it, floorboard holes and all.
I gave him some burb parts not too long ago, one of his underpaid lackies bumped it into the back of one of the flat beds a few months ago (it has no brakes right now). So he told me to go ahead and take care of the damage.
Could it be called project low buck?
Maybe project 1/2 ass is good enough?
Project skunk?
project pile of crap maybe?
I dunno... it's a VERY good running 50,000 mile pile of rust and filler... but it's kinda neat.
Like a retard... I never got a good 'before' photo of the damage i was working on. You can see in the above photo, the truck got punched in the nose... the upper grill is damaged, and the white hood was tossed on there about a month ago to replace the kerfagled one.
I DID however, get a photo of the fender after I ripped it off... so it'll have to do.

No core support damage, just a curled bumper, folded fender (which those two were damaged when he bought it) then the punch in the grill and buckled hood.

So after an hr and a half, I got it stripped down to this with no air tools;


So I hook it up to the bumper pulling machine...

It came out decent. No where near perfect.... but, if it was perfect, it would look WAY outta place on this truck!



This was about when I realized, I forgot my drill. I was putting all his trim on my old fender to see what all I would have to drill.... the 'super' badge needed new holes, and obviously, the upper trim.
A trip home for the drill, and I get it all done up with the quickness.


Bust out the D.A. sander, (kick on his compresor too) and start knocking the yellow paint down... The fender wasn't perfect... the lower front section (the 'parts cup' if you will) had been folded up a tad, bit otherwise the fender was very nice. I didn't do any body work at all on it. I was even told NOT to try pulling out the semi-folded cup.
He asked me to paint the fenders. I told him I wouldn't be able to get the fender and hood painted properly. All I could really do was spray bomb... rattle can.
He just said "look at the truck man"... handed me a $20, and said wally world should have everything you need.

So here it is 1/2 way thought the paint.

you can see, I forgot to pick up a news paper. But, I improvised.
I'm not quite sure WHY I was putting the trim and stuff on as I was going.... but I was.