Gonna be badass when you're done.

What brand of penetrating oil is that on the frame? Coors brand? Never heard of it.

 

Get the bolts drunk, and they stagger out of the holes......

 

^^^ that's some funny shhh right there.

I say do a wood bed with slat sides. are you going to use the cluster from the ram? or are you going to put aftermarket gauges in it

 

Agreed on this point. Awesome build.

 

I'm tagging in on this...

 

I thought about using the cluster but but the woman shut that ine down lol, I'm letting her tag along on this build, and trying to go with her ideas, we'll see how long that lasts.... I really want a full set of autometer ultra light gauges and I already have half of them, she wants to keep it looking old inside and out, I'm leading towards old outside and modern (comfortable) interior, other plans are to use the coloum, wireing harness and hvac from the 95 to keep cruise control, heat/ac, blinkers ect.... but really they are all ideas right now untill the fitting begins

 

got a little more done in the past week or so... got the body mounts fabed up, the cab bolted down, had to trim the firewall a bit, but nothing like i expected, the front clip is only about half mounted, but its getting close!, and got the coloum from the 95 mounted, just have to do the firewall, decided to use the 95 harness, but going to go with a full autometer ultra-lite gauge set














and here is fun littl bit of info.... the odometer on this 48 reads 45 miles! i couldn't and wouldn't believe it, untill i pulled evereything apart, saw the condition of everything, and discovered a 1948 dot code on the front tire...

 

45mi? No wonder the truck was in such good shape.


Looking good.

 

I am real curious what happened in that trucks life, that it only has 48 miles. Did someone buy it, and stash it, and forget about it??

 

i wish i knew also, it appears to have been inside most of its life, there are not any signs of water or sun dammage, but the rear axle was replaced with a ford 8 or 9 inch, so maby it blew the axle early in life and it just sat forever, i really dont know tho, its all just thughts