johnyrotten

Start of a cool project,Lenny. 👍

Great work Michelle

Thanks, it's been a fun build so far. I appreciate the compliment. Its been a learning curve with this one, and the hobby in general. I'd really like to try my hand at making something 100% in scale and "correct"at some point.

Made some progress tonight now that I'm over the plague. Made a new windshield and back glass out of acetate , I did not like the way the kit pieces looked, too visible. The rear was mounted on the tiniest little lip, probably flash I neglected to clean up. But I worked and that widow is in. "Turned" some parts for a shifter on the dremel and made that, I still got to figure out a appropriate length. Dash is installed, so tomorrow the cab is done, I can get on to finishing all the work on the chassis and engine.

It's awesome you get a second chance owning this, not many people do. It's a nice car, but the memories are worth far more. I'm sure you agree. As soon as you talked about the plugs in the back of the block I knew where that was going. You only ever do that one time.

Congratulations

This is a really cool idea. What's the plan, gasser wagon ?

Mike lohnes' channel is awesome, thanks for posting .

Nice work on the engine so far.

Nice to see an actually capable custom truck. Not a mall crawling bro-dozer. Very cool truck.

I thought the Duke Boys drove a Charger.

This was run of the mill 1/2 inch thick 4" copper bar, nothing special. Some kind of thermocouple. "Peck" drilling it to depth. And this bridgeport is beat. Made the set up as ridgid as possible. I'm FAR from a machinist, but I'm not afraid to read up, self educated and learn how to do something. I've learned there's a wealth of knowledge available if you look for it

I don't get into anything that small or delicate, a few years ago I made something for a local college, 3/32 blind holes 2.500 deep in copper plate. On a clapped out bridgeport. I'm not a machinist by any means, so that was nerve racking work. I have a great amount of respect for true craftsman in any trade or field.

Thank you, I'm especially happy with the weathering on this. I've spent a ton of time looking over the different ways to create this "look".

Hopefully some will, and actually appreciate what they stand for and symbolize.

Very cool mopar build Michelle, and my wife thinks the videos are an awesome way to show off your builds. 👍

Off the top of my head, a fine wire mesh and a filler/putty would probably be the ticket. This putty thins with laquer thinner and is quite workable, It does skin over quickly. The rot is grinding out the back of the panel till its paper thin and poking through the front side. I used a very bright light and ground on it till it was almost see through. The grinding is a much larger area than the hole. I basically mimic what nature actually does to metal, there's always more than what you see.

It's getting there. I started this before I joined the forum, I was completely ignorant to the aftermarket and the scope of my abilities. And this forum. I rarely would do anything close to this or what I've seen here when I was 12-13.

Absolutely, that's an aspect of building that interests me greatly. It would be a bit more familiar, I suppose. Awesome background you've got, I haven't had an opportunity to use anything like an edm, I do use our cnc plasma and brake quite often. Mostly I'm just In the field or at the bench, with the occasional cool job like inconel or monel valves or manifolds.

Thank you. I thoroughly enjoy the scratch building, the soldering and brazing is something I already know how to do on a much bigger scale. It's probably worlds different at scale.

Thanks

Tuff looking truck. 👍

Great looking car. I remember the build articles in hot rod as a kid.

So this was fun. Changing from the kit engine to the new flathead and the quick change required new mounts more clearance at the firewall, and a transmission tunnel to be made up. Everything on this frame is far from the stock location for the look, so that compounds everything. All while trying to not ruin the patina. The tunnel was purposely made to look like a hack job, remember a couple kids got a hold of gramps old truck. I'm gonna run some "welds" around it when I do the touch up to better hide everything. Should have done this from the start, live and learn. Thanks for looking.

I enjoy that people save history like this, I've had the fortunate opportunity to visit the Slater here in Albany. The outfit I work for made some things for it's restoration, so the boss and I got a "behind the scenes" tour. Awesome experience, very cool to talk with the guys working on it, a few of them actually served on that ship.