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Cool concept. Best 2 tone stepwise I have seen.

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Any progress? You had me at COPO :lol:

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Following along....love the copo idea

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Thanks guys, I haven't done much since we put the cab on the frame. When it cools off a little bit, I will mock the bed up, install the Doug Nash Overdrive unit, and get the exhaust and driveshaft built.

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I started sealing my bed wood today. My plan is to paint it black and ii will have stainless strips and bolts.

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The wood looks really good. Looking forward to seeing the finished results in your bed.

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Need opinions for my sleeper mode, trim rings or not?

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With or without trim rings, for sleeper mode?

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nice lookin ride. def with trim rings imo... subbed

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I say trim rings too. I've always liked that look better than no rings.

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cab turned out great!

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.. :metal:

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I've somehow missed the last couple updates here. I also am thinking black painted bedwood and stainless hardware for mine. Looks great! Hard to say on the rings. See what they look like on the truck.

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Thanks for the feedback guys. I hope to finish painting the bed wood this weekend. The Trim rings rill have to be a decision made after the wheels are painted and have tires mounted.

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no trim rings. caps only gives a nice base model inline 6 feel. if it were for show purposes only, rings all the way. but no rings gives it that street brawler undercover feel.

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Looks great either.

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Subscribed to this thread!! this thing will be awesome!!

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Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm in the process of buying and selling houses so the only progress has been a decent inventory of the parts I have on the shelf.(I have enough parts to build two trucks, minus the 2nd cab!)

The good news is that the house I'm planning to buy already has a shop! More to come...

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What happened to the one on the bayou that you were going to have to build a shop? What size shop does this one have?

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Here is a thought for you on the whole wheel thing...

I bought an old set of 6 lug 3 nub wheels and cut the centers out of them and welded them into a set of Speedway 15x14 steel hoops. I am also using the chrome hubcaps as well as the trim rings. They have a custom spacing so that everything fits without narrowing the axle. I am going to run some MT 31x16x15's on the back, I believe those would go a long way towards handling that 427.

I believe that it is post 23 or 24 in my build thread if you want to check them out....

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Well...within a few hours after I was talking to you, we found out about a house that was For Sale by Owner. It's in the same area and has a 24x30 shop already (To be expanded to 24x60).

We decided that being on the bayou wasn't worth $100k extra to us, and luckily we were in the 10 day "oh &@$!" Grace period on the contract on the other house!

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I'm digging your build plan and those renderings sure turn the dreams into a realistic vision! Wheel choices are still one of my big challenges.

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Really love the concept. Nice progress so far. Any updates?

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Well, since my last post there has been a lot of "water under the bridge", as they say. We moved into a new house in November 2015 which had a 24x30 detached garage that is my shop. As we went through the holidays we were getting settled in pretty well. I was getting my shop set up to house all of my tools, parts, and truck.

Then on March 8 we began getting torrential rains which resulted in over 24" of rain in 36 hours! Our new house flooded, along with my shop. After much help from friends and a 3 month repair of the house, we are finally settling back in.

Thanks to some of the best friends that I've ever had, 3 are members here, my engine and trans for the truck were pulled and gone through to ensure that there was no water damage. Finally yesterday, I cleaned all of the film off of the chassis of the truck and will begin reinstalling engine, trans, overdrive unit within the month. I will post more updates here as things progress.

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Glad to see you back on it, Keith !