Re: 1970 in the Great White North
Tearing into it, it quickly became apparent that this truck was indeed a farm truck and anything the broke was hacked together. Case in point, JB weld or some other similar product to hold the wiper arms on. That took some wicked heat to removed.
I had picked up patch panels for the floor, inner and outer rockers, floor supports and cab corners. Digging into it I knew there would be more rust than I initially thought, but I didn't know it was that going to be this bad. The more I cut, the more I found. A complete floor pan went on sale locally so I picked it up and decided to get the cab blasted. NOTE: It's amazing what old school paint can hold together. The cab was bad. Several places on the firewall rotten, complete floor rotten, found what I suspect is accident damaged covered by bondo, inside the cab from rear pillar across the windshield to the other rear pillar was almost completely rotten and hidden. Cab repair was put on hold until I could decide what I was going to do.
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