WELL HERE'S PARTS AND PIECES OF MY 73

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WELL HERE'S PARTS AND PIECES OF MY 73

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HERE'S A COUPLE OF PICS OF WHEN I BOUGHT IT AND GOING THROUGH IT'S REBUILD .
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Great transformation. Nice job on the interior - what material did you use? Excited to see the pictures after paint!
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I like the wood jig for rotating the body. Pretty low tech but effective means to keep everything nailed down while you're flipping the tub.
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I used the even lower tech jig of 2 tires on the floor and leaning against the wall. lmao
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Nice work! What type of heater is that you have in your garage? I've been looking to do something similar. Thanks!

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Any update on Paint?
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my heater is a hot dawg 55k , it's to big for a 3.5 bay garage but johnstone electric had them on sale .it's at the painter as of saturday and went to painters supply and picked ppg paint grey metallic for trim and orange mettalic for body . going down on thursday to work out details . sat. there was a member there renting the booth painting a half cab .
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Great color choices 777. It will be exciting to see the final product. Exciting that another member is using their paint booth.
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installed seats and roll cages , thought id add some pics cause chads was at the breakfast today
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Looks really good. I like the color and the front grill. Good work man!!!
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That looks great. Cant wait to see it at a breakfast soon.
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That color combo may be the coolest of all time. Looks amazing - keep the pics coming!
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That looks awesome!
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Looks great! In the words of Zoso: Is it done yet?
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Mike, what the price range for the six point roll cage you installed? Is there someone locally that offers them? Thanks for your input.

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You gonna wheel it this weekend? What's left?
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Mike get 'er done so we can get that sweet rig on the trail.
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777 - Your Bronco going to be done to take to the Platte Meet N' Greet this weekend?
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right now my kids college tuition is my rims and tires .
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You should have kicked them out and pulled the financial plug a long time ago. icon biggin
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I'm digging the blacked out grill, nice.
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