First off here is my little buddy. His name is Luke Warm. He's our Hairless Guinea Pig. He watches TV with me and bitches about the reruns. He's the type of dude who tells you the ending before the movie starts. yeah he's that much of an ass.
Next Up is the front fender fitting. Here Kyle, Ryan and I went about setting up the fender alignment and trying to figure out what looked best.
This fender fitting ended up leading to what I was waiting on from the start. Figuring out how my radiator would mount to the front. In the last post there were pictures of Melissa welding the radiator mount in place. So think of this as a preview of the last post.
With the fenders and hood in place and looking ruff. rawr fuckin rawr. But none the less, it looks really BA.
A shot of what you would see while driving.
And taking time to put on the hood ornament. Not sure if I'm going to be putting it back on for the final setup.
And again with the mounting of the radiator.
Melissa's wicked ass paint jobs.
First off I had this cool as heater I got off ebay for super cheap. We decided to do it up proper like. Some candy red and flat black. huh who would have thought. This is after melissa painted it up.
Next up we have a cool tricycle I got from my uncle butch. I always wanted a tricycle, not for a kid but for me. I wanted to ride it around the garage while screaming profanities at the neighbors and small woodland creatures. Melissa and I came up with a cool paint scheme and she went to work.
The beginning...
The Break down...
The Hand that huffs the paint
And the finished product. Super nice.
Next We move on to the placement of the battery and exhaust. First let me say I ejected this from the truck...
and replaced it with this...
And you will see the battery is placed in and also the inner fenders are done as well as the wiring for the front end. This included the fan relay and new heater hoses with the new thermostat gasket.
Next we move on to the exhaust. It's makeshift, and it's ruff, but it'll do.
And now we have the enforcer. He makes sure the air is hot with his non stop cell phone conversations and his rough work ethic. hahahahaha
He managed to put down the cell phone and toss on the horns and test them in my ears. No seriously he laid on them every time I stood in front of them.
The Inside.
I managed to button up the inside. If you remember the interior was a bit jagged and full of crazy angles. So I thought up a plan and buttoned up a few loose ends and also managed to form the lower detail around the bottom.
And to end this post I managed to pick up a pair of fenders at a local junkyard for super cheap. Ryan cleaned them up and ground some old pieces off them. Once fitted we noticed that we would need to cut them down. So I stuck on the dusk mask did some simple mathematics and ended up taking 2 inches from the fenders. After that I patched them up and they looked really good. The green tape is where the top of the fender will be finally mounted on the bed side.
Cut out
And back together
In the next post there will be some cool finished pieces that turned out great.
Thanks
Troy
