53 Is back from the Body Shop

A/C is well worth the time and money. Instead of siting on a butt buggy in front of a fan, I actually get work done. Weather was perfect tonight for painting , mid to upper 60's right after a rain, no dust, it turned out real nice. I have an alignment scheduled for wed, box won't be on yet but that's ok. Saturday I hope to drive it to town with the box on and get the back spacing and tire fitment measured and get some rims and tires on the way. I'm trying to jam it all in this week because next week tues my youngest who is 14 and I are going to the Black Hills for the week for a little father-son time. Then the week after that it is Vacation Bible School from 6:30 to 9:00 Sun through Thur and I was asked to help out with that. Both of those things are a welcome break though. I reluctantly helped with VBS last year but I ended up loving it and hated to see it end. Those little kids are sure a lot of fun.

The fenders look very nice. Good for you with helping with VBS. Have fun in the black hills. That is a place on my list to take the kids before they are out of high school.

Seth, allow me to quote a Scripture from today's Bible reading which I believe is appropriate for your up coming Bible School from Proverbs 4:5-7
5 Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding.+

Do not forget, and do not turn aside from what I say.

6 Do not forsake it, and it will protect you.

Love it, and it will safeguard you.

7 Wisdom is the most important* thing,+ so acquire wisdom,

And with all you acquire, acquire understanding.+

VBS really is a great time and great learning for the kids, if you have a chance to help, I would sure recommend it. I've been to the Hills a few times, I really like it there, getting to be more of a tourist trap but it's still good. Thanks Whip for the Scripture, It I will be running it though my head and sharing it during VBS.

I got the box all ready to go, hopefully be painted tomorrow night. I took of work at noon to get it this far today, It's crunch time!

Looks great, I'm really liking your 'loud' paint!
Wish I had as much room to paint as you do.
Rich

Very nice, it looks really close to having the green on it!

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Originally Posted by RichB

Looks great, I'm really liking your 'loud' paint!
Wish I had as much room to paint as you do.
Rich

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My wife chose the color, some days I'm not sure about it and other days its awesome. The shed is an old hog nursery barn. I got he building for free, moved it on our place and raised it up 7 feet.and finished it off. Its a 20 x 40 building

Wonderful space!

Been really crankin on this thing for the last few days. Got some pics of the paint process. A coat of etching primer, a coat of sealer and a few coat of Alien blood.

The Mrs and I were working on it till about 12:30 am Thurs getting the fenders on and finally putting the box and running boards on. I had it aligned on Wed and we drove it to town to my tire guy to order new rims and tires for it now that the box was on and we could do better measuring. Local shops are great, he went through a lot of work making sure it was all good. Friday we put about 30 miles on it going back and forth to town. Notice a blue Trailblazer in the back ground, that one is on deck for my 14 yr old.

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Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

A coat of etching primer, a coat of sealer and a few coat of Alien blood.

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"Alien Blood!" rotflmao.. :LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:

It looks oh so good tho'.. congrats.

The last few day I got a few more things finished up on the 53. I got my new Lokar throttle cable and it is day and night difference from the cheap knock off I had before. This things pulls easier in a figure 8 than the other did in a straight line. I also found the perfect gas pedal, it's from a Nissan Xterra . I did some mods and changes to it and it works perfect.

Also got my new Grant steering wheel in , it wasn't the cheapest one they sold but it's nice. I didn't go with the cheaper foam grip wheel cause I don't think it would have blended well the the rest of the interior. My wife was looking at 40 dollar wheels from Ebay and I said it ain't happening, not after the cheap Ebay gas pedal and cable experience. I also got the door sill plates in and step plates on. Later we started cutting the wood for the box. We used a dado blade for the 3/4 inch groove and it worked great.

Got a small list of little things that need to be dealt with, but for the most part I am very happy about how it runs and drives down the road. All the hush mat was well worth it, we were bucking a 30 mph wind and going 60 mph and it was fairly quiet in the cab, super happy about that. So far in 75 miles it only left us stranded one time. We were headed to town to fill it up with gas and made it about a mile and a half down the road and we ran out of gas. I'm pretty sure I need a new sending unit, the gauge seems to read different all the time. Other than that, Let the bug carnage begin!

Is the wood for a glove box? Also where you'd get the hush mat?