Here in Eastwood country, (Pottstown, Pa. to those not familiar) we have a great classic car community. Because of that, the sound of rumbling exhausts is common to hear echo through the building as they park out front of our retail store. One of our regulars is Bob F. He […]
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The welding has begun
Busy with some other projects, I haven’t touched this for almost a week. We got back into it today. After cutting the firewall open even more for added space, we were able to roll the chassis back into place so the wheels are centered in the wheel wells. Our next […]
Test Fitting and Aligning Body Panels Part 2
Today we got some more time to work on centering the front wheels in the fenders and also getting some more body panels test fitted. It’s nice to see it starting to “look” like a truck again. Given everything is just sitting on blocks, but it’s nice to visualize. The […]
Cutting out the fat.
This past weekend I got some more work done on the donor chassis-vehicle. I started by getting the rest of the front end removed, then we unbolted the bed from the chassis to gain access to where we needed to cut. Next we moved to the moment my inner child […]
Philadelphia Rats, Rods, Rust +Race Coverage
More and more these days you are starting to see more “lifestyle” grassroots types of shows and events popping up. It seems you could fill every weekend during the summer hitting all of the gatherings for cars, trucks, bikes, etc. With this, comes a lot of events that fail because […]
Project Pile-House Gets a Donor Skeleton
Since my last entry, I’ve been searching for a suitable, short bed, standard cab S10 or Dodge Dakota donor for my project. Unfortunately it seems so is everyone else! So everything I found was so far gone, or too nice to cut up and they wanted way more than my […]
The bare chassis is exposed.
Sorry for the lack of updates everyone, we’ve been very busy over the past week! Above you can see a quick video of what I’ve been up to since the last post. We’ve been working on getting the old Dodge body off of the chassis. We will be using the […]