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Steering wheels from CON2R. All custom! This will be a blast.

11/08/2013 18:45

Back in business

11/06/2013 09:52

...sitting in Greenwich CT doing some contract work for a couple firms up here. Keith and I decided last night that it is time to start back up...it have been on hold for a year. Keith moved into a new shop, I moved back to Texas and other things all worked together to put us on...

Took a couple months off as Keith gets the new shop ready.

02/25/2013 19:40

I have some new pics in the gallery. They are about the last 10 or 12 that show the latest progress on the bed. Keith is about to be finished with the new shop in Jonestown so the truck will be the first project in the new shop and it will now be only a couple miles from the lake house....

New parts on the way and Bill Dahleen comes through!!

11/18/2012 20:25

I ordered the new parts last week and hopefully they will get to Keith soon. Keith sent some great pictures and Bill Dahleen loaned us a sheetmetal brake. New pics and new brake in the photogallery.

Latest list of body replacement parts and panels

11/15/2012 20:57

Below is the latest list of parts that have been ordered. This is a pretty comprehensive list and it will not get too much worse for repair and patch parts. There will be dozens of more parts ordered but it will be AC, steering, wiring, upholstery type things. This is for rusted...

Here's the money shot

11/13/2012 20:50

Below I photoshoped an image of a shortbed fleetside and shortened the rocket rails to something a little more paletable. They pay homage to the original overly long rails and also allow you to keep the stock tail light. I think they look sporty enough and in line with the...

Custom fleetside bed

11/12/2012 15:57

Step sides are very popular and they should be. They are awesome looking trucks but they are sorta, "dime a dozen". I had already decided I really liked the mid-fifties Apaches. I wanted a fleetside but did not like everything about the 1958 Apache, Chevy's first...

Hurricane Sandy

11/04/2012 21:07

I went to Texas Oct 25th and could not get back to New York due to Hurricane Sandy. So I got an unexpected week off and went to the lake house. I hung out at the shop a bit. The truck had just come back from sandblasting and ititial priming. Pictures of the post...

Progress

09/22/2012 18:42

Well I went to see the truck over the labor day weekend. I took some pictures. I put everything in the photogallery. The cab and front fenders are temporarily on the frame. As of this weekend we sat the long bed on the frame. The fun begins now as we shorten the bed...

Stripping the body off the '92

09/10/2012 11:23

We got ol' Blue, the 1992 Cheverolet doner truck, to Keith's shop. I bought the truck a few years out of college when i got tired of driving used BMW's. I have had the truck ever since. I used it to build the lakehouse, build the boatdock, hunt, fish, tow the boat, drive...