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Awesome!! That’s going to be sweet. I couldn’t find too many mid fifty chassis swap videos. I definitely watched a lot of different trucks beings swapped and I feel like at the end of the day, I did everything different than what I watched haha. And thank you! I couldn’t be happier with how it’s turned out so far.

They definitely did a great job on this build. It was a father son project.

Hahaha right. It came pretty close to that point.

I never got my gas gauge working and I assumed I had enough to make it to work because last time I drove the truck, I threw gas in it and that same day my shifter broke and I didn’t drive again until a quick drive yesterday. But triple a showed up with a gallon gas and she fired right up, made it the closest station and off to work I went haha.

Thank you! I should have cleaned my camera lens first. 😂

Saving old trucks! 🤘 how was it fitting the Vic dash in the cab? I used a jack & stands to get it looking correct in my eyes and then just started welding in tubes to support the front end.

@IronSlugs_garage alot of cutting on both ends of the dash but it does come together and you start to see the dash and truck come together

I used 1”x 1” square tube.

I’ve been thinking about that one….

It certainly does. And rides even better than it looks.

Thank you. I’m proud of what I have been able to put together. Really brought this truck back to life.

Yeah it’d be interesting to see a crash test.

Probably crumbles like aluminum foil upon impacts

@@RobertHarner-j9h yes. Reduce weight.

I’ll get one soon. I still have some gray primer on the side of the bed I want to remove haha.

Looked like a mandalorian helmet to me. Star Wars theme goes perfect to the look of this truck haha.

I always thought it looked like a mandalorian helmet haha

Yeah! I can’t imagine the price tag if it was ever sold to the public. A few years ago I remember another concept truck coming to the plant, it was a mid engine truck with a sleeper and it had some wild hydraulic lift to raise and tilt everything forward, Almost like a cab over but it didn’t fold all the way forward like one. Just move the cab/ sleeper out of the way to be able to pull the engine/ trans or work on anything.

It was a great time.

My idea was to paint it ‘hotrod black’ like I did on my shoebox but once I took off the moss, dirt and old gray primer and found what was underneath, it looks awesome. A clear coat would look really good on it. When I get body work done from widening and fill in some here and there patches, I want to clear it.

@@IronSlugs_garage No worries. Just love the look now. God bless

It was a good run. Truck handles great.

It was cool cruisin the old fords together.

Haha your eyes are not playing tricks on you. I had to drop my steering column to fix my brake light wiring, I threw it back on and not realizing it turned on me. It will be getting fixed, I just wanted to get it out for a rip. The steering column is centered, it feels natural, it’s the column is turned so the indicator is all off. But driving wise, the alignment is good.

It definitely did haha. Couldn’t have worked out any better. Doing what I needed it too. This Saturday night cruise the loop in puyallup. I’ll be down there.

Just dolling up the hotrod haha.

Ohhh I already know haha. I don’t have anything laying around so I just had to just up the rear and work the sides a little until I could get enough height up from to throw a jack in the front to get the truck higher. But yeah the wood ramps, already on my to-do list.

Thanks dude! It was a great feeling to hit the freeway and have it handle so nice! It was a quick little run but it was good.

No, I Just drained it.