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Old 12-04-2013, 09:10 PM   #1305
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Re: Not Another Rebuild Thread....

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The boundaries of your imagination boggle my mind! Very impressive, looking forward to the finished result for sure! I'm great at copying ideas. I can even improve on them. But thinking up stuff out of thin air has never been one of my gifts. Keep it up!
Thank you Mark, I guess with equal parts imagination, determination, and opportunity; anything is possible.

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very very cool ..did you think about doing the tail gate also ? red ?
Yes.
Right now that is all I am going to say about that !!

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Not nice to tease! That's gonna be neat!
Thanks Low Elco... hope you like what comes next...

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Great work on the grill and support. Can't wait to see the finished product.
It is coming, I promise.
Just had to give myself a head start because it is quicker to post photos than it is to make progress and I knew some of you would be really digging this and spanning weeks between these photos seemed unfair to you all.

[QUOTE=Ta2Don;6401623] and what an AWESOME IDEA!!!QUOTE]
Thank you Don, hope you like !!


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My loving wife went into Fairbanks and looked high and low and could not find any colored clear coat, like the Night Shades line. I was at the local hardware store a few days later and saw this Krylon Fusion for plastics and gave it a try.
It certainly laid down nice:
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Sometimes stock is just fine, but then you look at other stuff and think, I dont like that.... so I made a new center support for my grill merely because the stock one was too wide of a profile behind my grill.
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You will also note that mine will screw to the face.
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My light box ended up being a 3 piece shown here with the LED strip lights already glued in:
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And lit up for you of course:
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