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This ol 71 has been in the family along time. Origional owner was my great uncle Virgil. after his passing his wife sold it to my dad. It sat most of its life beside my dads garage. wasn't driven much. Dad finally got tired of the armstrong steering and became a Chrystler fan so he sold it to my Brother Joe. Joe again, didn't really drive ol virgil much and he sat most of the time. Joe invested some to keep him running and on good rubber but despite this ol Virgil was still delapidating. Joe wanted to keep ol virgil in the family so he sold him to me for a song. I started by just giving ol Virgil a good cleaning. took the seat out and pressure washed the insde. then could not tollerate the flakeing rear bumper anymore so I put on some new paint after adding a reciever hitch to the bumper. You ever see that movie " Field of Dreams", well I like ol Kevin find myself in a positon of compulsion to do something I really can find no logical reasoning for. So here it goes. Working on a budget here ( Famous Last Words ). My plans are to replace the 6 banger with V8, armstrong steering with power, 3spd tranny with auto and chop the lwb into a swb. Leaning toward a baige metalic with off white interior. I'll post some pics of the progress.

Good story and nice truck...

found another fram and hauled it home. Thought i'd practice cutting this one down before I jumped into hackin ol virgil in half. Turned out pretty good so went ahead getting ol virgil ready for some changing.

Got the front suspension moved from ol virgil to new virgil frame. also moved cab. Not much left of the Ol ol virgil.

Got my cab corners and rocker panels ups today! Can't wait to put'em on!!!!

looks good man! Good luck with it! Greetings from Frankenstein, MO! About 75 miles South of you!

Got a little done over weekend

I used a little heaver sheet metal for the backer plate. Maybe it will not rot as easily. thinkin about fillin her with spray foam when done. just a thart!

Got the rear axel bolted in. Switched the wheels on rear axel. Lookin alittle tougher!!!

Great thread. Looking forward to seeing more progress.

Cool concept you have in mind. Though having a hard time picturing metallic beige, just because I don't think I have ever seen it, so I will be interested in seeing the final product.

Paul

Well I might change my mind, thinkin black is an option also

Well did a little today. checked out the cab corner on the drivers side. It looked pretty good, just a couple pin holes, I'll weld them up.

Now for that drivers side rocker!!!

Got some good and Used rockers if anyone is interested. They need alittle work!:chevy::chevy:

you're doing a great job... really transforming that truck.

Hello from a former Missourian! You are doing a great job on your truck. Keep up the good work!

Great job on the rockers!!

Spike:smoke:

attacked the cow today. Decided I would find another solution for the antena. Just don't like that ugly ol antenna stickin out there all narley and all.

there were alot of tight spots on that thing so I tried some furniture stripper to see how that worked, saw it on another build. It softened the paint (3 layers) and make it come off alittle easier. I wound up using the sandblaster on it to put the finishing touches on cleaning it off. While I had the sandblaster out I went ahead and hit the spots I had been working on on cab.

It was alittle chilly for primer so I decided to move ol virgil to the garage upstairs to give him a dry spot to sleep till we can play again. With cold weather coming I'm thinking a 40' X 50' shop with wash bay, lift, large Air compressor Large screen TV and Refrigerator would be sweet.