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I totally agree, Steve ….. this sure looks good to me as well , its beautiful.

When he does that, Gary , it is an old school square GM style key😉😉

Thanks Victor !

Do I see another Restorod project? Dropped with a huge engine , zoomie headers, chrome rims ………. ?

yeah, I’m going to have to restock as well, seems I use one or two sizes more often than others, I should have thought ahead when I was at your local, last fall. 🙄

Brilliant. !!

Steve, I absolutely agree 100%. As I mentioned, this was not Ford’s finest hour, and it is homely for sure, but lends itself to all sorts of conversions as they must’ve built a couple billion of them over the years, they must’ve been a robust platform , but beauty was not part of the show …. LOL. I hope I can make it shine , thanks for checking in .

Well , here we go again …. Bolts …. The bolts on the inspection plates on Ron’s automatic 🤭are grossly undersized to my old eyes as are the ones on the rear end , so, with that said ….. we have bolts

Man, ............. this is cool

Thanks for those pics Tommy. You are correct about the C series adapting. It did that in spades. The kit is technically a C-600 but I am going to ‘upgrade’ it to an 800 which in this case is mostly just changing the badging. I does have the bucket seat option and the optional automatic transmission but has wedge brakes where as I will try to upgrade to S cam brakes, the Dayton rims will go in favor of optional 5 hole Budds, just a few little details. I do hope I can pull this off in a decent manner. Thanks for checking in and the cool photos.

I hope I can pull it off but with the generosity of Jurgen and Bren this could be a cake walk. Fingers crossed

I may have to call upon you guys for advice and guidance ................ keep me out of trouble...LOL!!!!

Stunning !

Oh DUDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is absolutely AWESOME !!!! This just gets better and better, and I think you have done all there is to do and then you come up with something else.............. TOP DRAWER pal, Top Drawer !!!

and this is the basic idea.....

I guess it’s time to try my hand at another build. After a lot of “work” on the W/S , I thought I would do something ‘simple’ with not a lot of extras and changes. I was thinking a good well cared for farm truck , but then I got to thinking that I made a few changes to the Star🤔🤔🤔🤔 and it worked out pretty good …… this particular truck, in my eyes was not Ford’s greatest hour as they say. But it could be made into something ‘different’, and not a fire truck. So with that in mind and I like work trucks and over my years as a gravel truck operator, we hauled a lot of hot mix with truck and pup for paving. And on those paving jobs there has to be an asphalt oil distributor, and our paving companies used them and sprayed and emulsion we called SS 1 tack coat. It is a water based emulsion that once sprayed on the road and warmed up it became ‘tacky’ and helped with the adhesion of the hot mix mat stick to the road surface. Back in the old days and I mean the OLD days they used to use distributors to spray real oil on gravel roads for dust control. Then back in the day they were needed to make a ‘blade mix’ which was a long windrow of gravel on a gravel road , then the distributor would drive the length with oil , then the grader would roll the the oil and gravel mixing the material and the oil passes and grader ‘mixing’ went on until it looked like ‘black top’ and was then known as ‘cold mix’ and could be stored in stick piles and used later for hand patching pot holes or larger grader patches. It remains soft and easy to work with until placed and rolled unlike hot mix which needs to be handled quickly while still hot and that is due to different emulsions and cut backs used. So with that explanation I’m thinking I will ‘try’ to convert this stake truck to a distributor. I may not be successful but am willing to give it a shot, and if this falls apart, plan’B’ will be to make this a local fuel delivery unit. Thats that though anyway. ….. Apparently I’ve had this kit for a while as the price on the box is $24.95 🤭🤭 , so I have a few things that I think I want to upgrade and / or change. I have a pe set for it and hopefully use as much of it as I can, AND to help with some of the finer derails, I have original sales literature that should supply a detail or two. The kit will need some love and a fair bit of de-chroming. I may change out the wedge brake chambers for spring brakes as well. I started the other day by cleaning up the cab. ….. there is a lot to clean up and sharpen up to make this old mould look good. The moulds do show a little age and this kit has been around a long time but still makes up to a reasonable representation of a C600. With this project I have tapped into some experienced designing and 3d printing. So right off I want to thank Jurgen and Bren for their offers. So we will see where this goes. As always comments and thoughts are welcomed.

Sorry, wrong place, moved

What a sweet build and excellent story to accompany it . The truck and story match the vision perfectly. Also the classic period correct paint job. VERY well done tale a bow for this one. Beautiful

Brian …. When do we fuel this baby and flash her up for a spin?? It is SO real and no detail missed, it is like we can fuel and fire her up and blast off down the road........ Holy what incredible details you’re adding. These are things I never would have thought to do nor have the talent to do them anyway. You have the steadiness and the talents of a surgeon. Fabulous to watch and to watch and wonder whats next.

I can only echo all of the comments and add, it is an outstanding build. Clean, straight and precise. Attention to detail is excellent. What a beauty. Everything exactly period correct. Top drawer

Beautiful build. Paint looks perfect and nice details on the engine. Well done for sure.

Thanks loads Ron ! You can see my vision perfectly. I love the beefy iron and a lad it looks the part.

Thanks Monte, I really appreciate your thoughts and comments. Along with the trifecta as you mention also I can add to that the thousands of miles and the hundreds of hours I sat in these trucks, they were really nice to drive and very comfortable. The color was inspired by Gary’s build of his resto-rod Autocar. I am very partial to this kind of red … the paint I used on this build is Model Master Enamel Stop Light Red Metallic the stuff in the larger bottle. I think it is still available in the little 1/4 oz bottles and I ‘think’ the number is 1105. And yes it is a really nice color and laid down beautifully thinned with lacquer thinner. Hope that is of some help to you. Thanks again. Cheers

Thanks buddy !!!