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Nice work! That alt with the W wire is trick too!

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Thanks! The rebuild place I use even added the W wire free of charge.

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After 4.5 hrs of sanding last night the cab is ready to be sprayed. My arms are ready to fall off.
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Wow, nice lowers!!!

Finally sat down and finished reading this. Can't wait to see it finished up and some vid of you getting down in it.

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Thanks Chance!! Oh there will be a vid.

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Well a huge step forward the truck is painted :metal::metal:
Friday after working 8hr I loaded the truck and took it to my friend Joe's work to get the party started. We hung all the parts in the booth and clear sprayed. Then got the cab masked for interior paint. The plan was to use 1980 gmc charcoal gray but the mixer machine messed up and made this color I am calling burnt root beer. After 9hrs we called it a night. @2:00am
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Sat got to the shop at 9:00am to look at our work. Wow that is very semi gloss for flat clear. It turns out you have to mix the crap out of this stuff like home depo does when you buy paint. But we decided we like the contrast. The inside of the fenders got undercoating then clear coat.
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Then onto the cab. Cab, hood and grill. They would be flat. The sun really shows the color of the interior. So Saturday was a 10hr day when we left it was all painted. Then Sunday we went to pick it up and bring it home.
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Wow, you guys really did a lot over the week end. Looks good!

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Turned out nice, lots of work...Jim

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Looking really good Bob!

:clap::gmc2::clap:

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nice work

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that interior color looks like a really happy accident! looks like saturn brown, which looks black in all but direct sunlight. nice!

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This things is plain BA!!!

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Busy weekend!!
Looks great!

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Thank you everybody. It was a ton of work, but I am very happy with it. My friend Joe is very good with body work and I learnt a lot from him.

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THEE OG do you have a build thread for your 55?

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Lookin' good. You and your buddy really do crank out the progress. :metal:

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Lower, is that your Blazer? Looks really nice.

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That interior color may be a mistake but it sure looks very, very nice.

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Thanks. He is a good friend, he helped me with getting the motor running and most of the paint stuff. I think he is a jedi master with body work but he will say otherwise. I also bounce ideas off him when we hang out.
Yes its my DD 1987 Jimmy original paint we bought in Phoenix AZ year and a half ago.

It's nice when a mistake works out better than the original plan.

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So much for taking a brake on the truck lol
Today I pulled the compressors, tanks, shocks and rear tires to finish painting the frame. WOW that axle is a stubby monster. Guess I need to clean the rest of the axle.
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Very cool build!. I just read the entire thread this afternoon. Would love to take a ride in this beast. :D

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Lookin great! - just watched your startup vid again... it is THE BEAST!!!... the hoses on the engine look like lungs breathing!!! :metal:

very cool