Lots of good things happened over the period of a couple weekends, especially one afternoon when Dave came over to help knock some things out. The last of the sanding project "eliminate cammo" has finally completed. Dave even got me started on the next phase, painting it red, with a can of Rustoleum.
Note: painting this truck is currently a 2 phase plan. Phase 1: sand off cammo, replace with temporary all-red rustoleum paint job. Phase 2: After body work is done (bondo, some pieces being replaced, etc) and when I have more time and expertise, I'll sand off the rustoleum and do a better paint job - still red, with some white trim/fender flares.
And yes, that is indeed a beach chair in the driver's seat - I'm not planning on putting the other seats back in until after the floor work... told you I was a redneck.
Another "milestone" was finally jarring the lugnuts loose on the old tires. Dave brought some additional leverage (longer pipe over socket wrench) to make that happen - a couple of sore backs later - and the tires were off! The newer ones definitely help the look. It took quite a bit of doing getting the new tires on the front - needed some 1/2" spacers and even then some angle grinding on the spacers... but they're on there now. Hoping to get some chrome lugnuts soon to help dress it up more. The back tires will go on once Dave and I do some cutting on the rear fenders (to be lined with fender flares).... still to come.
Oh yeah, and Dave's crafty cutting with the angle grinder got the Cat converter off (no pics needed)... I need to pick up some exhaust piping to get the muffler back on (Karen's not the biggest fan of me cranking the truck w/o the muffler, and I'm sure our neighbors would agree - oops!) ... also still to come.
