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@dannyMCDelight don’t worry I tightened up the latch and it fixed it

Thank you. Now we have a ton of detail work to do 😅

That’s awesome. Even if you could do 15 minutes at a time, it’s so worth it.

That is really good advice. I took a quick peek down there didn’t see anything but I’ll look a little further. Luckily this truck was garage for the last 30 somme odd years. So it was a good start.

Going to be a great truck! Hope you post the finished product

I will. For sure

Thank you for the compliment. I have a few more things to do to it. So there will be a couple more updates. Just have another project that slipped in in front of it going on right now.

Thank you so much. I appreciate that and happy new year.

Thank you!

Thank you I appreciate that

Thank you

Thank you

Most likely “” useless” with taht engine in line!!

S10? Wath year

I’m thinking about it. But I’m not sure yet.

@@chicobooze1 I've got a novel idea, strip and repaint the whole truck.🤣🤣🤣

Thanks 👍 appreciate the comment. It’s slower than molasses, but it sounds cool.

Thank you

Great question. The first thing I would do is get the frame measurements off of the Internet. And just take some cursory measurements as best you can to see if it’s in the right place or at least in the right vicinity, without the complete body and it is possible to twist it with the floor out of it ,And I would suggest investing in a tram gauge. You can usually get this fairly reasonably off the Internet. It’s just a measurement device. Getting back to the issue of bracing For me, there’s a couple schools of thought The first one is the restoration guys will tell you to brace the body . In some cases, this helps because if you absolutely need to hold A part in a certain position, this works well for that . However, my background is in collision repair. And restoration. So I prefer to leave it unbraced. Just because parts float and they’re easier to put in the right position. Now you gotta remember these cars that we are rebuilding these days are all going to be repaired with aftermarket parts They don’t fit like factory and you’ll have the devils time trying to get them to fit correctly when they just won’t. So I preferred to move parts around to get the best possible fit. It’s a compromise. Because I spent my whole career moving metal that has been bent and crashed so it doesn’t bother me. But for the important parts it’s critical to have correct measurements and things being the right position , Particularly frames and suspension mounting points. This will adversely affect cars handling if they’re not right. But for upper sheet metal. I always go for the best possible fit, and compromise and work with that. I hope this answers your question.

Thank you so much. I appreciate the compliment.

@@jsh3234 I drove it around for about a year with that set up. Old granny gear low four-speed six cylinder I like it. It drives like an old tractor. And I’ve seen a few recent car shows that The old sixes are starting to show back up.

@@chicobooze1 I guess what ever floats your boat. 🤣👍

​@chicobooze1 I love the truck I have a 72 c10 long bed with the same 250 4 speed Been going through videoscame across yours with the inline.6 'cause I'm was on the fence On keeping it or put a v8 I have a 3/5 drop on mine right now Have drop spindles to add Haven't done it yet

The only other thing I have to do is put power steering on it. Probably closer to spring when I get that done. But I’d like it. It’s a different driving experience, it’s not incredibly fast or anything. It just has a cool feeling when you’re driving it.

Yes, I sold it to a friend of mine. His wife fell in love with it, and she’s totally happy with the car. And she’ll probably never sell it, I did all right on it. I made all my money back and made enough off of it to make it worth my while. And it was just a fun project at some point, but I really want to do is either a 69 fastback conversion or I got this crazy idea about converting a 67 cougar into a fastback. But I have, a full schedule at work. And probably about five or six other projects that I should be getting on. Just don’t have the time.

@@chicobooze1 that’s awesome. Sounds a little like me lol. Keep your videos coming!! You do really good work!!!

Thank you for the compliment I really appreciate it

So true